COMMUNITY CARE CHANNING - NURSE PRACTITIONER/PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT

About the role

Medical provider. Evaluate and treat urgent care patients and injured workers (Workers Comp). Perform work and sports related physicals.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Evaluate and treat patients with acute minor medical illness, minor acute exacerbations of chronic illness, and minor injuries.
• Perform minor office procedures such as laceration repairs, splints, cyst or toenail excision, abscess incision and drainage, etc.
• Evaluate and provide appropriate stabilization for patients with acute serious medical conditions or injuries and facilitate transfer as appropriate to an emergency facility or hospital.
• Evaluate, treat and provide follow-up care of patients with work-related injuries, requesting referral when appropriate.
• Manage the patient’s care in a timely manner and maintain a level of productivity that is equivalent to the other providers on staff.
• Interact with office, laboratory, radiology, and nursing staff as part of the patient care process.
• Perform required quality assurance steps in the patient care process.
• Interpret laboratory, radiology, EKG and basic pulmonary function tests.
• Thoroughly and accurately document every patient encounter.

Qualifications

• Licensed Nurse Practitioner/Licensed Physician Assistant.
• Maintain current Idaho licensure, Federal DEA and IBOP certifications.
• Complete adequate CME as required by licensure.
• Maintain current certifications in BLS, ACLS, and PALS.
• (Nurse Practitioner: Works within the scope of practice as defined by the Idaho Board of Nursing).
• At least two years experience working independently in a primary care, urgent care, or emergency care setting evaluating and treating a broad range of patients, in terms of age (infants to elderly), medically compliant (infectious disease, cardiac, orthopedic, etc.) and acuity level (routine, urgent and emergent).