Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

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• Provides therapeutic health care services to patients and family members, in a community based primary care facility.
• Secures a health and developmental history from the patient or parent; records findings and makes critical evaluation.
• Performs or requests special screening and developmental tests and laboratory tests and interprets the results.
• Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings to recognize early stages of serious physical, emotional, or mental problems.
• Provides surveillance of adherence to medical regimens to stabilize chronically ill persons; adjusts regimens within established protocols recognizing when to refer the patient to the physician or other health team members.
• Plans with other professionals and agencies involved in providing services to families, and where appropriate, coordinates the health care given.
• Provides full range of emergency services or crisis intervention in the absence of the physician, including lifesaving emergency procedures in order to stabilize a patient sufficiently to transport to a hospital facility.
• Provides health care and preventive services to healthy individuals, including guidance in nutrition, common illnesses, accidents, child growth and development, and child rearing.
• Makes home visits when indicated to implement a care plan based on family needs.
• Participates with consulting physician in planning, instituting, evaluating and revising program plan, assists in determining conditions, resources, and policies essential to delivery of health care services.
• Develops protocols for the facility in collaboration with other health care professionals.
• Serves in a teaching capacity in the development of other health care workers.
• Some evening, night, and weekend work is required.
• May be necessary to work when Administrative Leave is granted if patient care is compromised.
• As part of the assigned roles and responsibilities of this position the provider will be required to see both IHS eligible beneficiaries and non-eligible patients.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

If Nurse Practitioner:

• Master’s or Doctorate’s degree from accredited Nursing Program.
  • Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program.
  • Current RN license in State of North Carolina.
  • Current Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) or Pediatric Nursing Board Certification.
  • Current board certification as a NP in Acute Care, Adult, Adult/Gerontology, Pediatrics or Family Medicine.

If Physician Assistant:

• Bachelor’s or Masters’ degree from accredited PA Program.
• Current PA license in State of North Carolina.
• Current PA board certification.

• Current provider card in Basic Life Support (BLS) required.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) preferred.
• Ongoing continuing medical education (CME) activities as required to maintain credentials and to stay current in geriatric health.
• Cherokee Indian Hospital Medical Staff membership with full privileges as appropriate for training.
• Proficiency rated at 6 months.

• Professional knowledge of wide range of health principles, practices and processes including physical and mental health diagnosis, establishment of care goals, development, and implementation of the care program and evaluation of the results.
• Ability to collect, organize, record and communicate in a concise method, data pertinent or primary health assessments including detailed family and medical history, physical examinations and selected laboratory tests.
• Ability to interpret special screening and developmental tests.
• Skills in making appropriate diagnoses, choosing, initiating and modifying current therapies.
• Ability to provide preventive service to healthy individuals including guidance in nutrition, common illnesses, child growth and development and ability to teach individuals and families.
• Skills in working with groups for example guiding families in the development of general problem solving ability regarding health problems, assisting with training…