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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