Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant- Urgent Care - Part Time

Department

• 02190
• AMG
• Rivercenter -
• Immediate
• Care
• Status:
• Part time
• Benefits
• Eligible:
• Yes
• Hours
• Per
• Week: 26
• Schedule
• Details/Additional
• Information: Home site will be Rivercenter (downtown) Urgent Care but must be willing to float to all 4 Urgent Cares (Six Points, Rivercenter, Oak Creek and St. Francis) at times due to scheduling needs. holiday rotation, every 4th weekend commitment. Pay Range $54.90 - $82.35
• Major
• Responsibilities: Evaluates, diagnoses, treats, and manages acute patients within an urgent care setting for the majority of work shift. Acts as the primary patient contact. Works one-on-one with the physician to facilitate access to the specialty team for the patient. Provides for continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings and tracks patient along the care continuum including post-discharge. Provides clinical direction to nursing staff regarding the continued care of patients. Follows through with nursing staff to ensure patient receives recommended care. Prescribes, recommends and regulates pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies across multiple care settings, including controlled medications that are warranted by patient's diagnosis or changing medical condition. Provides complex care coordination, which includes managing a variety of ancillary services, preoperative plans, discharge planning, and provider referrals. Orders, performs, and interprets procedures and diagnostic tests or studies, in the field of clinical specialty trained and within advanced practice provider scope and licensure, to manage simple conditions such as those produced by infection or trauma, as well as to assist in the management of more complex illness and injury.
• Examples could include: injections, immunizations, suturing, wound care, and biopsies. Counsels, instructs and educates patients on physical and mental health including: diet, preventive health measures, health behaviors, self-care skills, disease, treatment options, and normal growth and development. Interprets and evaluates patient data within advanced practice provider scope and licensure for the purpose of determining management and treatment of patients. Consults with physician as appropriate. Adjusts patient care plan by reviewing and monitoring treatments and therapy plans. Prepares, dictates and signs patient care plans and summaries of patient care. Maintains records according to established standards and guidelines. Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures. Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards.