Nurse Practitioner (APRN/NP) or Physician Assistant (PA)

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES

The Nurse Practitioner, or Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, is responsible for handling patient appointments, performing routine examinations, and performing in office pain management procedures. Duties include speaking with patients, completing diagnostic tests to help diagnose and treat patients for chronic injuries or illnesses and coordinating with other healthcare professionals to maintain updated medical records.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) or Physician’s Assistant (PA) works as part of the clinic provider team performing a variety of direct patient services including assessment, diagnosis, implementation of treatment, evaluation, and monitoring the general patient management plan for clinic patients.

2. The APRN/ PA performs these functions in collaboration and supervision of a licensed physician in a primary health care setting.

3. Obtaining complete medical, social and family history from patient, and/or family, and/or previous medical record, etc.

4. Prescribing medications, therapy, and treatments according to therapeutic goals, and counseling patients, and families as to expected goals and outcomes.

5. Educating and counseling patients and families.

6. Helps to implement goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and systems such as Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), Meaningful Use (MU), and other programs or objectives for PTCOA.

7. Supports and helps to achieve HCI’s clinical and business work plan in accordance with standards required to meet Patient-Centered Medical Home recognition and other programs or objectives for PTCOA.

8. Develops collaborative relationships with other departments, services, and community health care agencies to facilitate and support quality care.

9. Performs other necessary duties as required by the Medical Director, Assigned Physician or APRN, Director of Quality, or Quality Assurance Reviewer to meet the goal of providing primary healthcare services.

10. Assesses, diagnoses, implements, treats, evaluates, and monitors patients’ health status.

11. Performs complete physical examinations on patients within their scope of practice.

12. Orders routine and diagnostic lab and x-ray studies as indicated by protocol.

13. Diagnoses acute and chronic illness on the basis of clinical findings, laboratory and x-ray reports, and/or the results of other diagnostic procedures according to approved protocols.

14. Formulates, initiates, and monitors patient management plans for patients assigned to the APRN/ PA, using protocols and/or consultation with a collaborative physician.

15. Refers patients requiring hospitalization or assessment and management of conditions to supervising physicians or appropriate specialists.

16. Follows patients’ progress with the physician.

17. Travels to surrounding clinics as needed.

18. When training new team members, you will represent PTCOA in a respectful, responsible manner and uphold all standards of patient care. This includes but is not limited to training on PTCOA policies and procedures for evaluating and treating patients, following safe prescribing practices, following patient protocol, and accurate and complete documentation of all encounters.

19. Performs other related duties as assigned.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Excellent oral, written, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of settings and with a wide variety of people and different organization levels.
• Ability to effectively supervise employees.
• Highly organized with the desire and ability to effectively track projects from start to finish.
• Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently and with little to no supervision.
• Demonstrate consistent reliability, integrity, and dependability.
• Setting and achieving high goals and standards of performance.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines and keep others on the schedule.
• Record/report the need for service maintenance or repair of equipment and remove any faulty equipment from service.
• Take initiative to do to redo inadequate or incomplete work, even if it is not yours.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
• Consistently demonstrate ability to respond to changing situations in a flexible manner in order to meet current needs, such as reprioritizing work as necessary.
• Minimize non-productive time and fill slow periods with activities that will enable you to prepare to meet the future needs of the company (education, organizing, housekeeping, assisting others).
• Organize job functions and work area to be able to effectively complete varied assignments within established time frames.
• Consistently demonstrate ability to take the initiative to make decisions/choices without direct supervision.
• Adhere to administrative and departmental policies.
• Demonstrate regular attendance and timeliness.
• Do not incur excessive overtime.
• Remain conscientious in regard to personal hygiene.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of all policies and procedures and ability to reference them from appropriate sources.
• Demonstrate adherence and support of company-wide service standards as evidenced by observation and feedback from patients, family members, and other clients.
• Must interact and exchange personnel, and outside agencies on a frequent basis while respecting the confidentiality of patient information.
• Must be able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Must be able to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, or oral form.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrate a high attention to detail.
• Strong organization, filing, and time management skills.
• Basic computer literacy and typing.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

The position requires graduation from an accredited school of nursing, a Nurse Practitioner program recognized by the Board of Nursing, or from a program otherwise designated for APN which has been approved by the State Board of Nursing, a current APRN or PA license in the state of AR, current DEA license, and current ACLS and BLS certifications. One (1) year of prior experience in the clinical practice setting is preferred.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This is a full-time position. Days and hours of work are expected to include 7:00a.m. to 5:00p.m. (Monday – Thursday). Occasional overtime may be required. The position operates in a professional office environment and the incumbent, in the course of performing this position, spends time writing, typing, speaking, listening, driving, seeing (such as close, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and adjusted focus), sitting, walking, standing, and reaching. The incumbent may operate any or all of the following standard office equipment including but not limited to multi-line telephone system, postage meter, facsimile machines, calculator, photocopy machine, computer/printer, and coffee maker. The incumbent may operate medical equipment. The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.