Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Job Description

(Immediately Hiring) FNP Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Job Responsibilities:

• 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; enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.
• 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.

Work Hours: 10 AM-7 PM. Monday-Friday

• Excellent communication skills
• Health promotion and maintenance
• Thoroughness
• Clinical skills
• Informing others
• Medical teamwork
• Physiological knowledge
• Bedside manner
• Infection control
• Administering medication
• Pain management
• Self-development
• Clinical skills
• Trigger point injections
• Knee injections
• X-Rays
• X-Ray Reading
• Suturing
• Must be able to guide others (i.e. training and development

• Must hold current license/registration to practice
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must have the ability to exercise sound judgment and discretion
• Ability to maintain highly confidential information