Nurse Practitioner, Medical

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Bayhealth Medical Center is Central and Southern Delaware’s healthcare leader with hospitals in Dover and Milford, as well as a stand-alone Emergency Department in Smyrna and a hybrid Emergency Department and Urgent Care in Milton. We offer various practice settings throughout Kent and Sussex Counties. Bayhealth Medical Center Kent Campus is 90 minutes from Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Baltimore. Our Sussex Campus is 30 minutes to the Delaware beaches.

Bayhealth Medical Center offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package (for eligible positions) including:

• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Matching 401(k)/403(b) Plans
• Excellent Health, Dental, and Vision
• Disability and Life Insurance options
• On Site Child Care
• Educational Reimbursement
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts
• Plus, an array of Voluntary Benefits to include Critical Care Coverage and more

Location: Blue Hen Primary Care

Status: Per Diem 0 Hours

Shift: Days

Works independently and with autonomous collaboration with physician to provide complete physical examinations, diagnosis, and treatment of both chronic and episodic disorders. Ensures proper illness and injury care and disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. The Nurse Practitioner works within a collaborative model to provide quality care and to improve patient outcomes by strengthening continuity of care in all settings for patients, families, and staff in both the hospital and physician practice settings.

The NP remains responsible for the patient throughout the course of the treatment, provides the physical examination, the diagnosis, and the health care plan, determines when the patient has recovered, and releases the patient. The NP may refer the patient to physicians for consultation or to specialized health resources for treatment but retains responsibility for clinical management as well as any subsequent medication.

• Appropriately prescribes pharmaceuticals according to age, chronic medical conditions, allergies, drug interactions, and duration of therapy.
• Perform routine and specialty physical exams and document age-related preventative health screening.
• Educates and counsels patients to promote wellness; addresses and provides resources for health risk behaviors.
• Interprets diagnostic tests for patients and provides appropriate referrals or consultations.
• Performs technical and surgical procedures for patients as necessary.
• Appropriately dispenses pharmaceuticals according to age, chronic medical conditions, allergies, drug interactions, and duration of therapy.
• Manages workers’ compensation cases, reviewing full work-related incidents and prescribing appropriate plan of care; documents status of modified duty and provides information to patient’s employer.
• Upholds the professional code of ethics.
• Keeps all licenses/certifications up to date (including ACLS and PALS, if applicable).
• All other duties as assigned, within the scope and range of job responsibilities.

• Education:
  
  Master Degree
• Nursing
• Must be a graduate of an accredited nursing program/university
• Credential(s):
  Nurse Practitioner;
  Nurse Practitioner - Controlled Substances Registration;
  Basic Life Support
• Experience:
  
  Required:
  
  No experience necessary.

Preferred:
Three (3) years' experience as a Nurse Practitioner in specific area of practice.

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• Credential(s):
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