Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care

SUMMARY

MedNOW Clinics is seeking a compassionate and dependable Nurse Practitioner to provide high-quality outpatient care.

This role is ideal for an NP who values clinical autonomy, collaboration, patient access, accurate documentation, and continuity of care. You will work with physicians, other APPs, Medical Assistants, Front Desk staff, Clinic Managers, and support teams to ensure patients receive coordinated care and clear follow-up.

• Evaluate and manage patients during initial, follow-up, preventive, and problem-focused visits.

• Obtain appropriate histories, perform examinations, develop differential diagnoses, and create evidence-based treatment plans.

• Recognize urgent or unstable conditions and arrange the appropriate level of care.

• Order, review, interpret, and follow up on laboratory work, imaging, and other diagnostic studies.

• Prescribe medications within your license, population focus, prescriptive authority, approved privileges, and applicable safety requirements.

• Use appropriate controlled-substance safeguards and the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program when required.

• Provide clear patient education, shared decision-making, return precautions, and follow-up instructions.

• Respect patient autonomy and document informed refusal when appropriate.

• Complete accurate, timely, and compliant documentation, diagnoses, orders, and coding.

• Maintain current medication, allergy, and problem lists.

• Review assigned messages, refill requests, results, referrals, and clinical work queues.

• Communicate results promptly and ensure urgent findings receive immediate follow-up.

• Track referrals and follow-up needs until responsibility and completion are confirmed.

• Help patients access care by using clinical review, appropriate scheduling options, and team escalation.

• Identify and address preventive-care needs, chronic-care gaps, and quality measures.

• Support value-based care initiatives and attributed-patient follow-up.

• Collaborate with physicians, APPs, Medical Assistants, Front Desk staff, specialists, and clinic leadership.

• Delegate only within each team member’s training and role.

• Seek consultation or upscale care when a case is outside your experience, population focus, approved services, privileges, or available clinic resources.

• Participate in quality improvement, peer review, team meetings, training, and continuing professional development.

• Maintain all required licenses, registrations, certifications, credentialing, payer enrollment, and professional records.

• Master’s or doctoral degree from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program.

• Current national board certification appropriate to the assigned population focus.

• Current, unrestricted Colorado registered nurse license and Advanced Practice Nurse registration as a Nurse Practitioner, or documented eligibility to obtain them before starting.

• Colorado prescriptive authority appropriate to the position, or documented eligibility and an approved pathway to obtain the required authority before independently prescribing.

• Current NPI and ability to complete MedNOW and payer credentialing requirements.

• Active DEA registration when required for the position’s prescribing responsibilities.

• Current BLS/CPR certification.

• Strong outpatient assessment, diagnostic, treatment-planning, and follow-up skills.

• Ability to recognize clinical limits and obtain consultation or a higher level of care when needed.

• Understanding of documentation, coding, medical necessity, patient privacy, and professional standards.

• Ability to work onsite for the posted schedule and consistently meet documentation and patient-care responsibilities.

• Family Nurse Practitioner certification.

• At least one year of outpatient primary-care or…