Description

Family Nurse Practitioner (APRN)

(Full-time; 40 hours/week)

Are you an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse looking to make a genuine difference for patients? Join our team at Generations Family Health Center!

Generations Family Health Center, Inc. is a regional community health center covering a 37-town rural region in eastern Connecticut with sites located in Willimantic, Danielson, Norwich and Putnam. Our dedicated staff provides a full range of primary care services to all ages including medical, dental and behavioral healthcare, as well as care coordination and community outreach.

Location: Norwich, CT

Job Responsibilities: As a Family Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, you will provide a broad range of clinical primary care services, which will include routine and appropriate ambulatory adult, pediatric, and gynecological care as assigned.

Your specific duties in this APRN role include:

• Providing care appropriate to the age of the patients served
• Performing office diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• Performing therapeutic procedures such as injections, immunizations, suturing, wound care, and managing infection
• Instructing and counseling patients regarding compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens, normal growth and development, family planning, emotional problems of daily living, and health maintenance
• Developing and implementing patient management plans, recording progress notes, and assisting in provision of continuity of care
• Performing comprehensive physical examinations and compile patient medical data, including health history and physical exam results

Salary Scale Starting: $113,263        (Masters)                /             $118,263          (Doctorate)

Sign-On Bonus: $5,000

Benefits:

• Primarily day-time schedule, some evenings (8 hour shifts, Monday-Friday) / one Saturday per month (4 hour shift, stipend)
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Short Term Disability coverage
• Employee Assistance & Wellness Programs
• 403(b) retirement savings plan
• 5 weeks paid time off
• 9 paid holidays
• Malpractice insurance provided
• Loan repayment through NHSC and NHSC Scholarship Repayment Site
• CME days & CME/CEU and CPE stipends
• Relocation assistance for applicable candidates

Qualifications

As an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, you must be highly detail-oriented with superior analytical skills as well as the ability to accurately assess patient conditions and to react quickly in emergency situations. You must also have a positive and empathetic personality with the ability to work effectively with others as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Specific qualifications for the APRN role include:

• M.S. degree from an accredited school of nursing
• Nationally recognized certification in area of practice
• Board certification
• Current licensure in the State of Connecticut or ability to obtain license in the state
• Valid Federal and State Controlled Substance License
• Demonstrated ability to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served
• Knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span as pertains to scope of practice
• Experience in an ambulatory primary care setting, preferred

Interested applicants should submit resume and application online at:

http://www.genhealth.org/rewarding-careers/opportunities

To apply by mail, email or fax:

Generations Family Health Center, Inc.,

ATTN: Human Resources

40 Mansfield Ave, Willimantic, CT  06226-1948

FAX:  (860) 456-1293 

EMAIL: hr@genhealth.org

Salary : $113,263