Time Type: Full time
Department: Family Medicine
All Locations: 20 Maverick Square - Cradock Building
Position Summary: The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is a licensed independent practitioner who provides medical services to individuals, families and groups. An APP diagnoses and manages acute episodic and chronic illnesses while emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention. Services may include ordering, conducting, supervising and interpreting diagnostic and laboratory tests, and prescription of pharmacologic agents and non pharmacologic therapies.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Obtains comprehensive and problem focused health history
- Performs a comprehensive and problem focused physical exam
- Orders and interprets screening and diagnostic tests
- Demonstrates critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in clinical decision making.
- Communicates with patients re: clinical findings
- Initiates appropriate and timely consultations (NP, PA & MD)
- Qualifications and Requirements:
- MA License as NP/PA
- BLS, ACLS, PALS Certification, as required by department
- 1 year relevant experience preferably in a community health setting
