Family Practice/Primary Care Nurse Practitioner

Job Title: Physician Assistant / Nurse Practitioner - Chicago, IL

Specialty

Primary Care

Job Type: Full-time hours may vary including evenings and weekends. On-call shared with other providers (1:4)

Reports To: Manager of Clinical Operations / Chief Medical Officer (CMO)

Responsibilities:

• Understanding and willingness to deliver care in a primary care setting.
• Prescribe appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments.
• Implement interventions in attempts to restore the patient's desired physiologic status.
• Monitor the effectiveness of interventions
• Make efforts to correctly diagnose common and less common ailments.
• Investigates clinical problems and offers sound medical solutions.
• Communicates effectively with other healthcare team members, patients, family members, and healthcare designees
• Performs procedures utilizing medically approved approaches and equipment appropriate to the patient's age and size
• Provides information and instructions at a level of understanding appropriate to the comprehension level of the patient and/or significant others.

Qualifications:

• Active License of Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner in the state of Illinois.
• Minimum 2 years experience in the field, ideally in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) or community health center.
• Proven experience in both adult and pediatric medicine.
• Master's degree in Nursing or Physician Assistant Studies from an accredited institution.
• Certification in Family Medicine (preferred) to encompass both adult and pediatric patient populations.
• Current provider card in CPR.
• Current DEA and Controlled Substance License when applicable.

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