What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Practitioner position at AACI?
Job Details
Nurse Practitioner
Job purpose
The Nurse Practitioner provides professional medical services for AACI Health Center patients. This position assesses, diagnoses, and treats patients, prescribes and dispenses medications, educates patients on illness, disease, and treatments; documents treatment and maintains clinical records, and participates in quality improvement processes. The Nurse Practitioner will provide coverage for other clinicians when needed and work as part of an integrated care team.
30-40 hour weekly schedules are available.
What We Offer:
- Signing Bonus: A warm welcome to our team!
- Generous Paid Time Off: 11 Paid Holidays, a Floating Holiday, Paid Vacation, and Sick Time.
- Comprehensive Benefit Plan: Choose from four Health Plan Options, with 95% of premiums covered!
- Retirement Benefits: 403(b) Retirement Plan with a match.
- Investing in Your Future: Eligibility for the State Loan Forgiveness Program and the HRSA Loan repayment program!
- Wellness: Free access to Headspace mindfulness app.
Duties and responsibilities
- Provide continuing, comprehensive healthcare maintenance and medical care to patients, including preventive, behavioral, and community health care.
- Provide accurate assessment, diagnosis, and treatment based on the ordered medical history, physical examination, and diagnostic tests.
- Prescribe and dispense medications.
- Develop and implement treatment plans with patients and other care team members.
- Educate patients on topics such as disease process, medication, prevention, and compliance.
- Refer patients to affiliated subspecialists when indicated.
- Document and maintain clinical records per appropriate standards and regulations.
- Participate in on-call after hours rotation.
- Provide coverage for other clinicians when needed.
- Participate in clinical quality improvement processes, including peer reviews.
- Maintain certification, professional training, and continued medical education.
- Participate in team meetings, data collection, health outcomes reporting, clinical audits, and program evaluation.
- Complete other related duties and projects as assigned.
Qualifications
Qualifications
Education & Experience:
- Master's Degree in Nursing or Physician Assistant.
- Minimum of two years of clinical work-related experience.
- Active, unrestricted license with the California Board of Registered Nursing as a Nurse Practitioner.
- Active, Unrestricted DEA license.
- BLS certification preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
- Knowledge of the principles and practices of family medicine, general internal medicine, or pediatrics.
- Knowledge of the local, state, and federal regulations pertaining to medicine and to community health centers.
- Knowledge of the structure and function of community health centers.
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Ability to learn Electronic Health Records system.
- Bilingual in one of the Santa Clara County threshold languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Tagalog, Farsi, or Vietnamese) preferred.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Competencies:
- Ability to communicate well with people of diverse cultural professional and experiential background.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Working conditions
Work is often conducted in an office environment inside a standard clinic setting. Basic safety precautions and use of protective clothing or gear is required. Occasional evening work.
Physical requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to continuously sit for extended periods of time and occasionally stand or walk for extended periods of time. The job requires continuous sedentary physical effort of lifting, pushing, pulling, and carrying objects weighing up to 10 lbs. The mental demands of the job include continuous comprehension, reasoning and decision making, interpreting and analyzing data, organizing, reading and writing, and resilience.
AACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Salary : $131,500 - $144,400
