Nurse Practitioner

Company Overview:

Our Mission:

Urology Associates of Mobile was founded in 1948 on the idea of providing the highest quality urologic and urologic oncologic care possible, while remembering that we do not just treat the disease state but the person as well. Seventy years later, our physicians and staff still strive to complete this same mission. While our entire team is focused on keeping up-to-date with the latest in urologic and urologic oncologic therapies, treatments, and surgeries to ensure our patients receive the highest quality care possible, we also realize that compassionate care from the registration process to the physician experience is instrumental to the patient experience. Providing optimal care coupled with a compassionate heart is key to our mission as healthcare providers. Our motto is to make the lives of our patients’ better one patient at a time.

Our Vision:

Our vision is to be one of the leading urology practices in our area and surrounding communities. We strive to have a reputation as a trusted, experienced medical practice providing complete accessibility to our patients. To accomplish this, we have three main goals:

1. Ensure that we gain and keep all our patients' trust and confidence.

Our physicians and staff work every day to maintain a respectful, trusting, and innovative environment where we work with our patients to develop the best possible treatment plan customized to their individual needs. We combine innovative technology and innovative treatments with human compassion to create the most effective patient/provider relationship possible.

2. Continue to provide the highest quality healthcare and cutting edge urologic and urologic oncologic treatments.

Our physicians are constantly researching and learning the newest therapies and surgeries available for all types of urologic and urologic oncologic diseases. Our doctors understand that learning never stops and thus they continue to open themselves to new treatment ideas and cutting-edge procedures.

3. Provide value to our community at large.

We at Urology Associates of Mobile understand that there is more that we can offer outside the doors of our practice. That is why a number of our physicians spend their time on a number of worthy causes from providing healthcare to the less privileged in third world countries to researching and teaching new urologic and oncologic therapies that could benefit the many.

We will continue to expand our services and staff in order to meet these goals.

Summary of Job:

• Perform general clinical and clerical duties according to the medical group standards of quality, efficiency and desired outcomes. With collaboration and guidance of the practice’s physicians, assist in assessing, planning, diagnosing, implementing, coordinating and evaluating specialty appropriate care to the practice’s patients.

Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Effectively identify, evaluate, and address acute and chronic symptoms and conditions presented by the practice’s patients.
2. Work in an independent and interdependent relationship with members of the medical staff, allowing for consultation, collaboration, or referral.
3. Responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of acute, chronic, and long-term healthcare issues for the practice’s patients, including co-management with physicians and work-ins for acute patients.
4. Educate patients and/or families about preventive care, symptoms management, prescribed medication management complexities, medical and surgical issues, and use of other prescribed or recommended medical treatments.
5. Maintain legible, accurate, and confidential medical records. Document all medical evaluations, diagnoses, procedures, treatment, outcomes, education, referrals, and consultations consistent with NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance), JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations), and state regulatory standards.
6. Follow the practice’s Compliance Program specific to Incident To (office) and Shared Visit (Hospital) documentation and coding requirements.
7. Facilitate evaluation of records by physician(s), peers, and Quality and Standards according to protocols, and receive and implement constructive directives.
8. Analyze new knowledge gained from conferences, workshops, professional literature, or "hands-on training" and assimilate this knowledge into clinical practice.
9. Following the introductory period, the practitioner will see, evaluate and manage office patients, either as: interval visits between physician visits or, the practitioner’s own patients and, inpatient rounds, in concert with the physician as a means to be highly responsive to patient care and improve the efficiency of MD time utilization, and, inpatient rounds, individually, when consistent with acuity and clinical comfort levels.

Minimum Job Qualifications:
1. Required license: Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

2. Two plus years of relevant experience preferred

Job Requirements:

1. Employee must be able to communicate clearly with patients.
2. Employee must be able to keep an organized workflow and effectively manage multiple tasks at one time.
3. Employee must be able to be active and mobile for an eight hour period.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus opportunities

License/Certification:

• Certified Nurse Practitioner (Required)

Work Location: In person