Nurse Practitioner

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Nurse Practitioner

Elizabethtown-NC-28337-United States

Liberty Cares

With Compassion

Liberty Medical Care Services is currently seeking the following :

NURSE PRACTITIONER / PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT

Full Time

(Covering Elizabethtown / Lumberton)

Job Description :

• Provides client services to local Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation facilities.
• Assures quality nursing care for patients by directing and coordinating nursing care.
• Conducts physicals and annual assessments for assigned patients.
• Completes acute visits to assess and diagnose patient conditions.
• Focuses on early identification of changes in condition as well as strong management of chronic conditions.
• Completes history and physical on new admissions within 72 hours of admission or readmission.
• Completes Medicare certifications according to required time frame.
• Prepares discharge orders, instructions and prescriptions for patients being discharged.
• Encourages advanced care planning and end of life decisions for patients requiring these services.
• Provides pharmacy with needed narcotic prescription refills as patient need dictates.
• Documents patient assessment and plan of care in the electronic medical record.
• Reviews labs and other diagnostic tests for additional interventions.
• Collaborates with physicians and staff.
• Notifies family of changes in condition.
• Communicates daily with nursing staff, assigns duties, supervises, and evaluates work performance.
• Reviews nursing policies and procedures for compliance, and to make recommendations for changes / additions as necessary.
• Recommends or conducts specific areas of in-service or continuing education.
• Assesses patients for palliative care needs and creates / oversees the palliative plan of care In facilities and in patients homes.

Job Requirements :

Background checks / drug-free workplace.

EOE.

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