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Nurse Practitioner - Urgent Care for Kids

Tanner Health
Carrollton, GA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/29/2025

Tanner Health is recruiting a full-time Pediatric Nurse Practitioner to join the Tanner Urgent Care for Kids, located in the Tanner Health Pavilion adjacent from Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton.

Structure of position:

  • Position is full-time (~40 hours per week requiring every third weekend)
  • Clinic will operate:
  • Monday – Friday, 8a - 8p (or until last patient seen); Sat/Sun 8a - 5p (or until last patient seen)
  • Practice will be located the Tanner Health Pavilion in Carrollton, Georgia
  • Must be willing to treat newborns to 18 years of age
  • Excellent clinical, administrative and management support; Tanner Health utilizes EPIC EMR system wide

- Extremely competitive hourly rate plus volume incentives plus comprehensive benefits package which includes PTO, annual - CME allowance, medical, vision and dental

Qualifications:

  • Completion of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program
  • Active GA license or meet criteria for obtaining licensure

Requirements:
Area of Responsibilities
  • Customer Service: Participates in patient satisfaction initiatives. Demonstrates excellent customer service skills. Communicates effectively with patients and management regarding service recovery opportunities. Works together with other team members to achieve Office and System customer service goals.
  • Development: Maintain and update level of skill for pertinent medical assistant duties. Participates in continuing education. Participates in the development of new programs (ex: Process Improvement, Quality Initiatives).
  • Patient Care: Performs evaluations, provide treatment and counsel patients. Order and interpret test results and recommend treatment of patients. Administer therapeutic procedures. Prescribe therapy or medication with physician approval. Provide physicians with assistance during surgery or complicated medical procedures. Demonstrates specialty and population specific competencies. Demonstrates an ability to effectively communicate based on specific specialty and population. Performs other duties as assigned by the supervising physician.
  • Quality: Maintains evidence based medical care and clinical charting. Participates with clinical tracking and feedback. Integrates with clinical and administrative teams to administer high quality care.
  • Teamwork: Works well with others and functions as a team player. Offers ideas and solutions for issues that affect the team and work area. Participates in the training and skills development of new clinical staff. Assists as needed.

Compliance Statement
Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.

Education
Master's Degree

Experience
Six months of related experience

Licenses & Certifications
  • Georgia Registered Nurse License
  • Georgia Nurse Practitioner License
  • Healthcare Provider (CPR)

Supervision
  • Regularly uses assistance and leads the work of one to four co-employees, may instruct new employees and correct work routines, checks results and may discuss with employee?s superior.

Qualifications
  • Able to communicate effectively with medical and hospital staff and various populations in clinics and public screening events.
  • ACLS recommended.
  • Additional certification will be required for some specialties (i.e. ACLS, PALS)
  • Current certification as a Nurse Practitioner in Georgia
  • Graduate of a recognized program for Nurse Practitioner training (MSN).
  • Must be capable of dealing tactfully and effectively with patients, family members, other employees and physicians
  • Must maintain high degree of confidentiality.
  • Must meet credentialing criteria.
  • Must possess the cognitive ability to understand patient medical records, physician orders and medical orders to be communicated to patient, hospital and/or other physician.
  • Must possess the sense or discipline to work in accordance with accepted clinical standards.
  • Prior experience in a like specialty preferred.

Definitions
  • Nurse practitioner provides patient services through the performance of patient evaluation, assessment and treatment in the medical office setting as allowed by state licensure laws under the supervision of the medical director. The nurse practitioner works closely with the clinic staff, hospital departments and community agencies.

Contact With Others
Requires frequent contact with many persons at different levels inside and outside of the organization to carry out organization policies and programs and obtain willing acceptance, consent, or action.

Effect Of Error
Probable errors not easily detected and may adversely affect external as well as internal relationships and may result in major expenditures for equipment, materials, or procedures detrimental to the patient?s welfare or the organization?s interest. Work is subject to general review only and requires considerable accuracy and responsibility. Continually works with reports, records, plans, and programs of a major functional area of the organization where integrity is required to safeguard the organization?s position. Duties may involve the preparation of data on which the administration bases important decisions and are highly confidential.

Supervisory Responsibility
Supervises a small section of employees (up to 15); orients and trains employees; schedules, assigns, checks, and maintains flow of employees work; carries out most personnel decisions, and initiates minor personnel actions.

Mental Demands
Work involves a variety of problems in a general field, some of which are complex. Involves some independent judgment to decide what to do to assemble facts, determine variations from standard procedures, or plan other action to be taken to meet general objectives.

Physical Effort
Moderate physical effort - Lifts, carries, or handles lightweight (1 to 25 lbs.) materials or equipment for about half of the day. Very occasional physical effort with medium weight objects (25- 60 lbs.). Office or laboratory work requires close visual effort and concentration more than half of day. Works in reaching or strained positions for less than half of day.

Working Conditions
Moderate - (About 50% of the day) Involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk. Limited probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.

Working Conditions Aspects For Immunizations
  • Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles)
  • Directly works with Patients less than 12 months of age

Physical Aspects

Continually (at least once per day)
  • Hearing
  • Visual
  • Speaking
  • Standing
  • Lifting up to 25 lbs.
  • Carrying

Frequently (at least 3 times a week)
  • Bending
  • Manual Dexterity - picking, pinching with fingers etc.
  • Feeling (Touch) - determining temperature, texture, by touching
  • Reaching - above shoulder
  • Reaching - below shoulder
  • Color Vision
  • Walking
  • Lifting 25 to 60 lbs.

Occasionally (at least once a month)
  • Typing
  • Balancing
  • Crawling
  • Running - In response to an emergency
  • Lifting over 60 lbs.
  • Handling - seizing, holding, grasping
  • Climbing
  • Kneeling
  • Smelling
  • Driving - Class C vehicles
  • N95 Respirator usage (PPE)
  • Pushing/Pulling - up to 25 lbs.
  • Pushing/Pulling - 25 to 60 lbs.
  • Pushing/Pulling - over 60 lbs.

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