Job Title: Nurse Practitioner Core
Location: Edmond, OK
Job Duration: 6 months+ (possibility to extend)
Shift hours: Clinic hours, minimum 30/hrs. per week. Requires working every other weekend and some major holidays.
Position Summary:
Seeking a Nurse Practitioner (NP) to join our Primary Care team. In this capacity, you will work in collaboration with a dedicated clinical care team to provide evidenced-based care to a panel of patients. The clinical care team will work with the provider daily to drive better outcomes for entire panel of patients. This will include accurate assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management of health problems, health counseling, and disposition planning. This role will report to the practice manager.
Potential for contract-to-hire.
Duties:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to.
Patient-Centered Quality and Safety
• Uses knowledge of etiologies, risk factors, pathophysiology, presentation, and epidemiology of medical conditions relevant to primary, acute, chronic, and transitional to provide care to patients
• Performs history and physical assessments of patients that are accurate, complete, concise, relevant, and appropriate for age, gender, and clinical symptoms.
• Provides patient counseling; inclusive of pregnancy prevention, STI Prevention/safer sex practices, contraceptive care counseling and medication management
• Counsels and educates patients and families on health maintenance and respond to patient care inquiries
• Evaluates and treats patients' medical needs with safe and high-quality treatment
• Documents all patient care within an electronic health record in accordance with current policies and procedures
• Works as a member of the clinical care team providing care and coordination of our patients with internal and external colleagues ensuring the highest level of care is always provided for all patients
• Provides patient-centered care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the promotion of health, prevention of illness and treatment of disease
• Refers to appropriate specialists and patient care components as appropriate
• Maintain patient confidentiality in accordance with PHI and HIPAA standards
Communication and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
• Collaborates with clinical care team to ensure the delivery of high quality, patient centric, longitudinal care
• Participates in and in some cases leads clinical care team huddles
• Demonstrates core values of in all communications and interactions
• Communicates effectively with members of the clinical care team, other health professionals and health-related agencies.
• On call rotation shared with providers in market for afterhours patient clinical needs or shift coverage
• Works effectively with clinical care team members
• Promotes mutual respect and trust working within a team model.
• Cultivates and maintains all levels of communication; adjusts communication style to effectively influence quality outcomes and patient needs
Healthcare Environment Management
• Resolves conflict using appropriate communication and management techniques
• Cultivates and maintains positive relationships with clinical care team members
• Manages clinical and non-clinical duties efficiently
• Adapts quickly to new models of patient care for clinic efficiency
• Enhances operational effectiveness, emphasizing cost containment without jeopardizing important innovation or quality of patient care
• Maintains self-awareness and professionalism of individual actions and how they impact the care team, the practice, and healthcare industry
• Assist with hiring, development, and evaluation of Primary Care clinical care team as appropriate
• Complete necessary tasks for clinic operations, including but not limited to following up on lab results, and receiving incoming clinical information.
Business Acumen
• Own the success of your practice through implementation of the Primary Care business plan designed to meet identified business goals