Job SummaryProvides outpatient medical care in partnership with one or more supervising physicians.
Responsibilities and Duties- Practices medical care for each patient visit.
- Completes pertinent history and physical exam.
- Documents chief complaint, history of present illness, pertinent review of systems, and physical exam in electronic health record ("EHR").
- Reviews and updates past medical history, family history, social history, medications, and allergies in EHR.
- Reviews vital signs.
- Reviews results and reports from prior orders.
- Places new orders.
- Performs and documents procedures.
- Administers medications and immunizations.
- Determines and documents assessment and plan.
- Prescribes medications.
- Provides patient education, guidance, and counseling.
- Arranges plan for follow-up.
- Signs EHR encounter within timelines in established policies and procedures.
- Responds to related patient questions or needs which arise following encounter.
- Adheres to established scheduling templates in provision of patient care.
- Participates in quality metrics directives and departmental quality improvement (QI) projects.
- Attends practitioners' meetings regularly.
- Attends clinical site meetings regularly.
- Attends practice-wide meetings regularly.
- Reads emails and other platforms of communication within organization.
- Completes peer review.
- Complies with Clinical Quality Measures expectations.
- Uses resources to verify standards of care.
- Modifies workflows as determined by department to attain QI objectives.
- Consistently documents activities related to QI projects.
3. Participates in on-call patient rotation.
a. Maintains availability to receive phone calls throughout dates of on-call service.
b. Responds to on-call contact within timelines in established policies and procedures.
c. Documents on-call patient care in EHR.
d. Notifies patient's primary care physician of on-call patient care.
Qualifications and Skills- Current licensure as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in good standing with the North Carolina Board of Nursing or current licensure as a Physician Assistant in good standing with the North Carolina Medical Board.
- Current Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) licensure.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
