What are the responsibilities and job description for the Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner - Float position at Legacy Health?
Overview
Every day, patients look to the skilled professionals at Legacy to make their lives better. They seek care that is as compassionate as it is innovative. Our patients want to be involved in their healthcare decisions; they want to feel respected. If you strive to deliver this level of care, every day, you may be a perfect fit in our healthcare community.
Responsibilities
Works in collaboration with physicians to provide complete physical examinations, diagnosis, and treatment of both chronic and episodic disorders. Assigned principal responsibility for Urgent Health Care of patients under professional medical direction from physicians. Seeks the expert opinion or advice of a physician whenever the incumbent decides a case falls outside the scope authorized by policies and protocol. The Nurse Practitioner plans and implements and a physician reviews and confirms health care goals for patients.
The Nurse Practitioner typically remains responsible for the patient throughout the course of the treatment, provides the physical examination, the diagnosis, and the health care plan, determines when the patient has recovered, and releases the patient. The Nurse Practitioner may refer the patient to physicians for consultation or to specialized health resources for treatment but retains responsibility for clinical management as well as any subsequent modification.
*Regular Full-time Float Providers:
- Act as a fill-in for any gaps in the schedule, call outs, and/ or other coverage needs.
- Are “un-anchored” to a specific site or clinic (floating to any site within the regional market for Legacy/ GoHealth), but with a set template (working same days each week).
- Shall expect last minute changes to site location(s)/ assignments, since these are subject to daily fluctuations in patient volumes and/or absences of other staff that cannot be predicted and/or easily anticipated.
- Shall also reasonably expect more than one Legacy/ GoHealth clinic to require assistance throughout any single workday; therefore, travel between locations is also anticipated.
Qualifications
Education:
- As required by licensure.
Experience:
- Minimum 2 years clinical experience in related field, strongly preferred.
LEGACY’S VALUES IN ACTION
Follows guidelines set forth in Legacy’s Values in Action.
Equal opportunity employer/vet/disabled.
Licensure
Licensure:
- Current applicable state RN license required.
- National certification as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) required.
- Applicable state license as a Nurse Practitioner w/Prescriptive Privileges (NP-PP) required.
- Current certification dependent upon the specific position to include Basic Life Support (BLS).
