Job Description
Responsible for working alongside physicians and facilitating advanced primary and specialty nursing services. Provides general and preventative care for children and adults, perform check-ups, treat illnesses, order lab tests, and prescribe medication.
Principal Accountabilities:
1. Provides new patient consultation and reviews health history.
2. Performs physical examinations and screening on the patients.
3. Provides after-care/ongoing care information and resources to patients and their families.
4. Ensures patient records are maintained including test results, immunizations, condition changes.
5. Delivers quality, physician-level care while complying with company policies, safety regulations, and productivity metrics.
6. Recommends further treatment options or future appointments if required.
7. Performs diagnoses health problems and provides medications.
8. Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Required:
1. Master's degree in Nursing or related area.
2. Current state Nurse Practitioner license.
Preferred:
1. 5 or more years experience in Nursing or relevant area.
About the Team
Overlook Medical Center's Atlantic Neuroscience Institute serves as the flagship of Atlantic Health System Neuroscience with good reason. Within New York and New Jersey, we are the only stroke program recognized by Healthgrades as one of America's 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care nine years in a row. Since 2017, Healthgrades has recognized Overlook Medical Center among the top five percent of hospitals in the U.S. for excellence in the Treatment of Stroke, Cranial Neurosurgery and Neurosciences more times than any other hospital in New Jersey or New York. In addition, The Joint Commission has certified our spine surgery program and we were the first hospital in New Jersey to receive their Comprehensive Stroke Center designation. Patients from Chilton Medical Center, Hackettstown Medical Center, Morristown Medical Center and Newton Medical Center are seamlessly connected to Overlook when advanced neuroscience care is necessary thanks to telestroke technology, helipads and ambulance transport, and an electronic health record system that allows physicians to share health records in real time.
