Family Nurse Practitioner

Responsibilities

• Provides clinical services within the scope of a Family Practice Nurse Practitioner.
• Diagnoses, treats, and provides high-quality patient-centered care for medical conditions in children and adults following accepted medical standards of practice.
• Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens as appropriate to assessed medical conditions.
• Refers patients to specialists and to relevant patient care components as appropriate.
• Evaluates and revises patient care/treatment plan with patients and family as necessary to achieve improved health.
• Provides education for patients and/or families about preventative care, medical issues, and use of prescribed medical treatment.
• Provides accurate documentation of patient care, documents orders, directives, procedures, and patient responses in the medical record, and communicates them to other members of the health care team; maintains accurate, legible, timely, and confidential records.
• Participates actively in the advancement of FCP’s Medical Home model, including innovative ideas, functions as leader of a Care Team, participates in care team clinical benchmarking, and meaningful use of the electronic health record.
• Collaborates with the Medical Director, Provider Team, and Nursing Director to identify areas for system improvement, increased efficiency, communication, and quality improvement activities.
• Develops relationships to provide for a broad spectrum of care with various ancillary specialties (e.g., Rehab, Dental, Optical, Community Health, Behavioral Health).
• Communicates within the department as well as across departments to ensure information is shared for effective operations, and maintains strict confidentiality and adherence to HIPAA policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree or PhD in Nursing with an emphasis on family practice from an accredited college or training program recognized by the State of Wisconsin.
• Possesses and maintains unrestricted licensure provided by the State of WI as an Advanced Practice Nurse, BLS certification, and unrestricted DEA licensure.
• Must possess proof of applicable health department testing and vaccinations or testing/vaccination will be provided by FCP Employee Health.
• At least 3 years of clinical practice in Family Practice, urgent care, or emergency medicine.
• Must successfully pass all applicable background checks and drug screens.

Preferred Qualifications

• Family Practice experience preferred.
• Excellent patient relations and communication skills.
• Ability to participate in clinic committees as requested.

Background Checks and Screening Requirements

• Basic Background and Drug Screen (National Federal Criminal, State Criminal, County Criminal, National Sex Offender, Education Verification, Previous Employment Verification).
• DOJ Caregiver (Health).

Benefits

• Approximately 5 weeks of paid time off annually.
• 3 weeks of paid holidays.
• 2 weeks CME annually.
• Premium-free health insurance.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Short-term disability.
• Life insurance.
• 401k with match.