COMMUNITY CARE WEST - FAMILY PRACTICE NURSE PRACTITIONER/PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT

About the role

Mountain View Hospital is looking for a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant to join our team.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Evaluate and treat patients with acute minor medical illness, minor acute exacerbations of chronic illness, minor injuries, and chronic illness.
• 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.
• Be an active participant with Mountain View Hospitals quality goals.
• 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.
• Interpret laboratory, radiology, EKG and basic pulmonary function tests.
• Thoroughly and accurately document every patient encounter.
• Bill appropriately for each patient care visit.
• Respond to requests from the hospital QMP (qualified medical personnel), via telephone or in person as appropriate, for management of hospital walk-in patients.
• Respond to MVH for inpatient Code Blue when there is no other provider physically present in the building.
• Respond as appropriate to any activation of a local or state wide Disaster Code or Multi-casualty Incident (MSI).
• Handle all patient evaluations and transfers in compliance with federal EMTALA Regulations.
• Interface, as appropriate and necessary, with providers and medical personnel within and outside of Mountain View Hospital whenever necessary to ensure good patient care.
• Serve as the Team Leader for your assigned shift if you are the most medically qualified personnel. This may involve supervising or providing back up to other Nurse Practitioners or Physician’s Assistants.
• Perform other duties as deemed necessary.

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 or Physician Assistant: Works within the scope of practice as defined by the Idaho Board of Nursing and Medicine.)
• At least one year 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).