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Per Diem Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Mobile Unit

Bridgeton, NJ

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Description

Reporting/Department Head: Chief Medical Officer

*FLSA Status – Non= Exempt

*EEO Category – Professional

Our Mission: To improve lives by providing convenient, comprehensive, high-quality healthcare to every person in every community that we serve.

Our Vision: CCHN will maintain its position as the leading community health center in the state and become a model for all other healthcare organizations to follow.

MAJOR FUNCTION:

Seeking a Nurse Practitioner to provide care on our mobile health unit, delivering services at various community locations and events throughout Cumberland and Gloucester Counties. Hours and sites vary based on event schedules and service demand.

Provides nursing care within the scope of a NJ licensed Nurse Practitioner

Assess the bio/psycho/social/spiritual health status of individual clients and families through history taking, data collection, and physical exam
Assists staff nurses to facilitate care for walk-in patients
Completes accurate documentation according to site specific standards
Works in collaboration with staff, physicians, allied health professionals, and others to implement the patients plan of care

Provides pharmacological care within the scope of a NJ Certified Nurse Practitioner

Participates in annual update of joint practice protocols as per NJ Board of Nursing guidelines
Prescribes or make judgments regarding pharmacologic agents and therapeutic devices
Dispenses/Administers/Prescribes medications according to policy & protocol

Provides nurse practitioner care within the scope of a NJ Certified Nurse Practitioner

Recognizes and manages deviations from health
Recognizes patients whose problem is out of scope of practice and obtain appropriate care
Orders appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
Follows up on laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
Communicates with patient to arrive at mutually agreed upon plan of care to include actual and potential health problems, both medical and nursing in nature
Evaluation and revision of patient plan of care is ongoing

Provides health education

Informs, teaches and guides clients/families to assume responsibility for management of their own health
Individualizes education to facilitate patient independence and optimize patient self care
Educates patients on pharmacological agents, therapeutic devices, laboratory or diagnostic testing
Promotes health education for groups of patients, families, staff, agencies, communities, and organizations pertinent to area of specialty as appropriate to program

Provides referral and case management

Refers patients to internal resources according to program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
Refers patients for specialty care as per program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
Refers patients to primary care as appropriate
Follows up on referrals according to site specific standards
Case manages client care according to program standards and patients plan of care

The above job description is not to be construed as a complete listing of the assignments that may be given to any employee, nor are such assignments restricted to those precisely listed in the description.

EOE

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:

Candidates must be able to drive to assigned locations as scheduled.
Must have at least 2 years of experience and be able to practice independently
Unrestricted license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner from the State Board of Nurses for New Jersey and official recognition from the same State Board to practice as a Nurse Practitioner
Employee shall maintain registration including prescriptive authorization with the New Jersey Board of medical Examiners,
Maintain Board Certification
Maintain Active CPR
Ability to stand, swift waling, lifting, moving patients as needed

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