Clinical Track or Clinician Educator Track Assistant/Associate or Professor of Clinical Pathology

About the role

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) Convenience Care specializes in providing comprehensive patient care in a convenient setting. They are responsible for conducting physical exams, collecting and documenting data, performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and prescribing appropriate interventions and medications.

Responsibilities

• Obtains patient health histories and complete physical examinations.
• Documents findings noting pertinent normal and abnormal findings.
• Orders and interprets appropriate diagnostic and laboratory tests.
• Performs procedures such as obtaining specimens, performing injections, immunizations, skin biopsies, suturing, wound care, and managing conditions produced by trauma or infection.
• Writes orders to increase, decrease, or change medication, subject to checking and counter-signing by physician.
• Initiates consultations and monitors scheduling of patients for special tests.
• Identifies records pertinent progress of patients, updating and summarizing charts, changing orders when appropriate, and notifying the responsible physician of changes in the patient’s condition.
• Instructs and counsels patients and families regarding preventive care, medical problems, psychological problems, and use of prescribed treatments and drugs.
• Acts as liaison with governmental agencies such as the Center for Disease Control and National Institute of Health.
• Assists with medical research projects, following medical research protocols.
• Maintains compliance with established University and department policies and procedures, quality assurance, safety, environmental, infection control, and complies with requirements of accreditation and regulatory agencies.
• Participates in in-service education programs and professional associations.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Nursing from an accredited school of Nursing (MSN).
• 5 years of clinical nursing experience.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to speak, read, and write English proficiently.
• Knowledge of medical procedures and conditions and ability to understand, follow, and successfully perform duties.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual in Spanish preferred; ability to understand and to make one-self understood to all Spanish-speaking individuals.

Skills

Works in collaboration with other health care team members, consulting and referring as appropriate, but retains responsibility for ongoing clinical management of the patient. Must work with any and every physician in the Clinic.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$110,240.00 - $181,896.00 annually.

Schedule

Not specified.