Nurse Practitioner Post Acute Care

Description

The Clinician in a Post-Acute Care setting provides comprehensive evaluation, treatment, and care management services to patients transitioning from acute hospitalization to rehabilitation, skilled nursing, long-term care, or home-based care environments. This role focuses on improving functional outcomes, managing chronic and complex medical conditions, reducing hospital readmissions, and supporting safe transitions of care. The clinician collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, including physicians, nurses, therapists, case managers, and caregivers, to develop and implement individualized care plans that promote recovery, independence, and quality of life.

Key responsibilities include conducting patient assessments, monitoring clinical progress, coordinating care across settings, documenting treatment plans and outcomes, educating patients and families, and ensuring compliance with regulatory, quality, and safety standards. The clinician serves as an advocate for patients while contributing to organizational goals related to clinical excellence, patient satisfaction, and value-based care initiatives.

The BMH-owned or managed physician practices provide medical services in various specialties and offices including pediatrics, OB/GYN, cardiology, orthopedics, general surgery, family practice and internal medicine. The practices are staffed by physicians and other licensed providers who are supported by clinical staff (LPNs or medical assistants) and clerical staff (receptionists, transcriptionists, file clerks). Hours vary by practice.

Requirements

Education:

• Master's degree from an accredited adult nurse practitioner program.

Experience:

• Two years of nursing experience in internal medicine preferred.

Licensure/Certification:

• Current licensure as an APRN by the State of Vermont.
• Certifications as an adult or family nurse practitioner by a national organization, which is recognized by the Vermont State Board of Nursing preferred.
• Qualified to be credentialed by the BMH Medical Staff.
• Healthcare Provider CPR certification.
• DEA license.

Mental Efforts:

• Requires eye/hand coordination and manual dexterity.
• Normal and corrected vision/hearing.
• Potential exposure to blood/body fluids and communicable diseases.
• Helping and assisting with the lifting and/or moving of patients.
• Environment & Working Conditions Requires some exposure to communicable diseases or body fluids.
• Potential for CTD and multiple and diverse interruptions.

OSHA Category I
- Tasks that involve exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues require use of techniques of Universal Precautions as evidenced with blood borne pathogens standards.

On-the-job time is spent in the following physical activities.

• Standing
  - Up to 1/3
• Walking
  - Up to 1/3
• Sitting - 2/3 or more
• Talking or Hearing - 2/3 or more
• Use of hands to finger, handle or feel
  - Up to 1/3
• Pushing/Pulling
  - None
• Stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling
  - None
• Reaching with hands and arms
  - Up to 1/3
• Tasting or smelling
  - None

This position requires that weight be lifted, or force be exerted.

• Up to 10 pounds - 2/3 or more
• Up to 25 pounds - 1/3 to 1/2
• Up to 50 pounds
  - Up to 1/3
• Up to 100 pounds
  - None
• More than 100 pounds
  - None

This position has special vision requirements.

• Close Vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)
• Color Vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)
• Ability to Adjust Focus (ability to adjust eye to bring an object into sharp focus)

This position requires exposure to the following environmental conditions.

• Wet, humid conditions (non-weather) - None
• Work near moving mechanical parts
  - Up to 1/3
• Fumes or airborne particles
  - Up to 1/3
• Toxic or caustic chemicals
  - Up to 1/3
• Outdoor weather conditions
  - None
• Extreme cold (non-weather) - None
• Extreme heat (non-weather) -…