Nurse Practitioner

Tasks and Responsibilities

1. Oversees clinical nursing care, ensuring compliance with established regulations and standards including quality assurance, confidentiality, and medical record documentation
2. Provides direct supervision to Pro-time Nurses and clinical staff, ensuring appropriate assessment and treatment of patient health. Serves as key problem-solving resource for staff on patient issues. Studies patient needs/trends and suggests solutions to ongoing patient care problems.
3. Collaborates with Quality Director on development and implementation of Patient Centered Medical Home and Quality initiatives.
4. Collaborates with Branch Satellite Director on development and implementation of clinical department’s goals, policies, procedures, quality assurance plan, and work standards.
5. Develops guidelines for prioritizing work activities, evaluating effectiveness, and modifying activities as necessary. Ensures the clinic is staffed appropriately.
6. Assists in the recruiting, hiring, orientation, development, competency testing, education, certification and evaluation of clinical staff.
7. Establishes and maintains an efficient and responsive patient flow system.
8. Oversee and approves medical supply inventory.
9. Supports and upholds established policies, procedures, objectives, quality improvement, safety, environmental and infection control, and codes and requirements of accreditation and regulatory agencies.
10. Handles patient, doctor and staff complaints.
11. Fill out incident reports for staff and patients for doctors to sign off on. Conduct fire/tornado drills.
12. Conduct Code Blue drills to make sure patients know what to do.
13. Oversee all appearance of the office, cleanliness, wear and tear and repair.

REQUIREMENTS

1. Required: BSN from accredited school of nursing, MSN preferred.
2. State of Florida APRN license.
3. Ongoing BLS certification.
4. Preferred: Preferred coursework in health care administration.
5. Required: Minimum five years of professional nursing experience including two years supervisory-level experience, preferably in medical practice setting.
6. Must be Board Eligible or Certified in a primary care specialty.
7. Bilingual preferred.
8. Strong interpersonal skills.
9. Handle the information with high level of confidentiality.