Family Nurse Practitioner FNP or PA

Job Description

Job Description

Title : Family Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Salary Range : $145,000 - $170,000 / year

Position Status : Full-Time salary (exempt)

Summary : Under the supervision of the Chief Medical Officer, the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) is responsible for providing comprehensive direct primary and urgent care to an ethnically and socially diverse patient population in accordance with best practices and policies, and procedures. The FNP / PA will ensure a high level of quality in delivery of patient services. The FNP / PA provides oversight to ancillary staff to ensure appropriate care is provided to patients.

JOBRESPONSIBILITIES

Patient services : Ensures that clients receive quality, timely, and professional care in accordance with TL’s mission and values

• Perform complete examinations, assessments, and formulate treatment plans for patients including adults, children and infants.
• Obtains and reviews patient histories and develops patient care plans, ensuring completeness and accuracy in both electronic health record and paper record documentation.
• Orders and interprets in timely fashion results of laboratory, radiology, and other tests.
• Determine sand implements courses of treatment according to evidence-based practices.
• Provides and monitors the results of treatment.
• Proactively assists the patient and family through all facets of accessing care at TL and serves as a resource to resolve patient and family concerns.
• Confers with staff regarding care and treatment of patients and assists in management of patient care.
• Accesses and manages acute and chronic conditions and participates in disease registry
• Educates patients and family members in health promotion, disease prevention and birth control methods as appropriate.
• Assists in preparation and selection of patient education materials.
• Provides preliminary telephone consultation to patients, when requested.
• Actively monitors and appropriately directs referrals placed for patient care.

Compliance : Ensures services provided comply with regulatory agency requirements, contractual obligations and funding sources.

Administrative

Experience and Qualification

Minimum Qualifications :

These are general guidelines based on the minimum experience normally considered essential to the satisfactory performance of this job. Individual abilities may result in some deviation from these guidelines. To perform effectively in this position, the candidate must have :

Benefits

Benefits : Paid-Time-Off (PTO), Health Care, Dental, Life Insurance, Retirement Plan