Nurse Practitioner

Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin

SSM Health
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Additional Job Description

The Opportunity

Agnesian Healthcare is actively recruiting a full time (1.0FTE) Adult Psychiatrist to join our experienced and cohesive outpatient behavioral health team consisting of 6 Psychiatrists and about 11 Psychotherapists (Masters Therapists and Psychologists) in an outpatient clinic setting. Our Adult Psychiatrists focus primarily on medication management and occasional psychotherapy needs of our general adult patient panel. This is an outpatient only practice with a 1:5 Friday night call (phone call only) rotation. Enjoy a built in referral base as well as access to the The Treffert Center, a well-known autism center that offers state-of-the-art comprehensive, multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment of autism, behavior, and communication disorders in children and adults. Future medical directorship opportunities available.

  • Monday through Friday workweek
  • No call coverage requirement
  • Built in referral base
  • Medication management focus
  • Niche practice flexibility (Geriatrics, Addiction)
  • Adult patient population
  • Epic EMR
  • Telehealth options
  • Future Medical Directorship opportunities available

The Hospital and Clinic:

St. Agnes Hospital, a 174 bed facility and nonprofit Catholic institution, is a leader in providing quality state-of-the-art healthcare services, whether it is cancer treatment; comprehensive heart care through the Dale Michels Center for Heart Care, including angioplasty and open-heart surgery; home or hospice care; maternity services; laser surgery; sports medicine; behavioral health services; women's health services; occupational health services; rehabilitation services and 24-hour emergency care.

The Community:

Fond du lac, a thriving community of just over 43,000, is situated at the foot of Wisconsin's Lake Winnebago (a location that gives the city its French name), Fond du Lac is an easy drive to Milwaukee, Madison (the state capital) and Green Bay - Titletown USA. This puts the city at the center of the state's population concentration, an area with more than 3 million residents.

The Benefits

Comprehensive benefit package exclusively designed for physicians to include immediate vacation, CME time and funding, retirement, and malpractice are just a few of the generous package offerings.

St. Agnes Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

For more information contact:

Jody Chellevold, Physician and Executive Recruiter at SSM Health

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Job Summary:

In collaboration with physician(s), demonstrates and provides professional nursing care to specialty patients requiring an advanced level of knowledge and management of their nursing care.


Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Initiates and provides medical interventions in response to acute changes in patient conditions.
  • Provides educational services to nursing and ancillary departments and serves as an educational consultant on clinical practice issues.
  • Applies evidence based practices to achieve multidisciplinary collaboration to facilitate continuity of care.
  • Contributes to the satisfaction of the medical staff by collaborating with physicians to deliver best care.
  • Recognizes and utilizes opportunities to act as a change agent by introducing nursing practice innovations.
  • Evaluates nursing practices associated with specialty area, defines needs/problems with patient care and makes constructive suggestions that creates a positive patient outcome.
  • Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.


EDUCATION

  • Completion of a formal post-basic education program from or formally affiliated with an accredited college, university or hospital (Before July 1, 1998) or a graduate degree from an accredited college or university (After July 1, 1998) with a concentration in the appropriate advanced practice nursing clinical specialty area.
  • Board certification by a national recognized certifying board in the appropriate population focus
  • Current or compact RN license in appropriate state
  • Appropriate APRN license or document of recognition in appropriate state


EXPERIENCE

  • One year experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
  • Constant standing and walking.
  • Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
  • Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
  • Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
  • Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
  • Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
  • Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
  • Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
  • Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
  • Occasional driving.
  • Rare crawling and running.
Date Posted: 23 May 2024
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