Job Summary
The Nurse Practitioner (NP) provides service to patients in designated care settings, including : acute, short and long-term care, by assisting physicians, assessing patients, and treating injuries and ailments.
Obtains a thorough medical history from patient and dependent on patient population and setting, will perform an examination and / or assessment to determine patient's needs.
With other healthcare professionals, analyze and interpret information collected from patient, medical records, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information, to develop and establish appropriate diagnosis.
Acknowledges and demonstrates the importance of care coordination and navigation by rounding on patients. Works in collaboration with providers and independently to provide care.
Formulates a plan for treatment of the patient and prescribes medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost as legally authorized if necessary, in order to aid recovery and manage pain.
Maintain complete and detailed records of patients' health care plans and prognoses in a timely manner. Makes necessary healthcare referrals.
Provide patients with information needed to promote health, reduce risk factors, or prevent disease or disability. Counsels' patients and family members about self-management on prevention and treatment plan for health issues, tailoring instructions to patients' individual circumstances.
May participate in clinical research studies. Incorporates evidence based practice guidelines into care.
Maintain current knowledge of state legal regulations for advanced practice provider practices, including reimbursement of services.
Keep abreast of regulatory processes and payer systems such as Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and private sources, as applicable.
Demonstrate extensive advanced knowledge of medical principles, practices and techniques. This role will require varying shifts, on-call rotations, including nights, and weekends as needed.
Qualifications
Completion of a master’s, postmaster’s, or doctorate from an nurse practitioner program accredited by the Commission on the Collegiate of Nursing Education or National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission.
Licensing prior to August 1, , master's degree in nursing is preferred.
Schedule :
Rotating nights, days on Monday through Friday and about 8 weekends per year. Weekends are Friday 5pm to Monday 7am
Can take call from home on overnight shifts, response time 20 minutes
No clinic, only inpatient medicine for medical and surgical inpatients and observation
New Grads considered : If candidate didn’t have additional inpatient medicine experience as a nurse or during NP / PA rotations they would have a larger learning curve.
Training would be multiple months (6 months) with current team
Make up of Team
Physicians (2 physicians, 1 full-time, 1 part-time)
APP’s (2 full time NPs)
Demonstrated current competence and provision of care, treatment, or services for an adequate volume of patients in the past twelve months, or completion of master’s / post-master’s degree program in the past twelve months.
Experience must correlate to the privileges requested.
Current licensure by the applicable state board of nursing for advanced practice. Current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) permit to prescribe controlled substances.
Certified Adult Gerontology Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP-BC) or (A-GNP) or (AGACNP-BC) or (ACNPC-AG) or Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (NP-C) or (FNP-BC).
Obtains and subsequently maintains required department specific competencies and certifications.
Benefits
Sanford Health offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a (k) retirement plan, work / life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance.
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Sanford Health has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.
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