What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Practitioner-Part-Time position at Advanced Correctional Healthcare?
SUMMARY:
Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Perform problem-focused, individualized medical assessments.
Be physically on-site at assigned correctional facility(s) on a regular basis.
Must document dates and times of provided site coverage by logging hours into online payroll system.
Provide 24/7 on-call phone services.
Provide back up call for other facilities as needed.
Personally, examine patients as needed. The expectation is that you stay on-site until all patients that need to be seen are seen.
Prescribe medication (including narcotics) and treatment within your prescriptive authority, as appropriate in your professional medical judgement, and without regard to cost. When prescribing, you should be mindful of things such as, but not limited to, medication adverse reactions, medication interactions, substance abuse issues, mental health disorders, comorbidities, allergies, pain level, vital signs, contraindications, drug monitoring, etc. in the context of the individual patient. You should prescribe medication for the appropriate duration of time, as determined by your professional medical judgement.
Review patient medical records, as appropriate
Sign off on orders, as appropriate.
Comply with the correctional facilitys policies and procedures, unless doing so would be counter to common sense.
If a determination is made that off-site care would be more appropriate for the patient, work with medical staff to send the patient off site or make appointments with the understanding that this can be overruled by the Sheriff/Jailer
Endeavor to attend a minimum of 1 ACH medical conference per year.
Any and all other duties as assigned.
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Currently licensed to practice medicine in the state of hire
Board certified or board eligible
Current DEA registration
Current CPR certification
This position requires a cleared background check
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