Job Type
Full-time
Description
Position Summary: The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) will work closely with supervising Physicians and will manage 3-5 separate primary care micro clinics and care for the surrounding communities. It will consist of a combination of virtual and in-person medical care. The key objective is to create value through health coaching, disease management, preventative screening, and education.
Essential functions: - Promotes and maintains patient health by providing medical services under the supervision of a physician.
- Contributes to a physician's efficiency by identifying short-term and long-range patient care issues.
- Recommends options and courses of action for patient care.
- Implements physician directives.
- Assesses patient health by interviewing patients and performing physical examinations including obtaining, updating, and studying medical histories.
- Determines abnormal conditions by administering or ordering diagnostic tests, such as X-rays and laboratory studies and interpreting test results.
- Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
- Performs therapeutic procedures by administering injections and immunizations, suturing, and managing wounds and infections.
- Instructs and counsels patients by providing normal growth and development information and providing counseling on emotional problems of daily living.
- Provides a community of care by developing and implementing patient-management plans.
- Maintains a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
- Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols. Complies with federal, state, and local legal and professional requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; and enforcing adherence to requirements and advising management on needed actions
- Collaborates in the development and evaluation of patient care. Updates clinical guidelines/protocols/pathways; works autonomously and accepts accountability for outcomes; signs orders in accordance with institution and state board requirements; collaborates in research and teaching projects and applies research to practice.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
- Develops health care team staff by providing information, educational opportunities, and experimental growth opportunities.
- Utilizes telemedicine interface to complete virtual visits.
- Ability to float, round to multiple facilities and/or take call (first call) to support Urgent Care APPs.
Skills and Qualifications: - Health promotion and maintenance
- Thoroughness
- Clinical skills
- Informing others
- Excellent communication skills
- Medical teamwork
- Physiological knowledge
- Bed side manner
- Infection control
Requirements
Nurse Practitioner Education: Graduate of a Nurse Practitioner program approved by the State of New Mexico; Master of Nursing required.
Licenses/Certifications: - Licensed to practice professional nursing as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner by the State of New Mexico or other specified state (s).
- Licensure by the State of New Mexico APRN and eligibility for full prescriptive authority by the State of New Mexico or other specified state (s)
- Certified by a recognized national certification by the State Board of New Mexico or other specified state (s) in area of population foci and/or additional specialty recognition beyond the APRN.
- Eligibility for DEA licensure.
- Basic Cardiac Life Certification.
Salary Description
$135,000 - $155,000
