Family Nurse Practitioner

About the Role

As a Family Nurse Practitioner at Baptist Health Urgent Care, you will play a crucial role in providing exceptional medical care to patients of all ages with a wide variety of acute and chronic medical conditions. Working collaboratively with a team of healthcare professionals, you will diagnose, treat, and educate patients while ensuring the highest standard of care and service.

Responsibilities

• Provide exemplary care to patients, visitors, and coworkers.
• Deliver convenient, friendly patient care to all seeking health-related services.
• Provide leadership, direction, and assistance during emergencies while maintaining a comforting and reassuring demeanor for patients.
• Perform medical assessment, treatment, management, and follow-up of clinic patients, including primary care, urgent care, occupational health, DOT physicals, and workers compensation.
• Perform medical procedures such as laceration repairs, nail removal, pap tests, injections, splinting, and abscess incision and drainage.
• Establish and monitor a medically appropriate level of care for clinic patients.
• Oversee, direct, and support on-site laboratory, x-rays, injections, and collections for direct access services, if applicable.
• Maintain clinical core competency.
• Work with Center Leadership and other staff to ensure operations are consistent with medical policy and professional standards.
• Cooperate and participate in the development, implementation, and revision of policies affecting medical practice, quality of care, and patient satisfaction.
• Participate in and assist with in-service and continuing education programs for physicians, nurses, and other personnel.
• Recommend potential means of growth and development for new and/or existing services within the Center.
• Ensure compliance with licensing, certification, and accrediting bodies.
• Participate in the development and presentation of education programs for staff.
• Represent the company and the clinic at internal and external meetings or events as reasonably required.
• Provide guidance to other medical staff (e.g., physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and medical assistants) to ensure quality professional services and patient satisfaction.

Requirements

• Active state license as an APRN.
• Current Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Board Certification.
• Current DEA license, or eligibility to obtain upon hire.
• Current DOT certification, or willingness to obtain upon hire.
• Current BLS certification.

Experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner is preferred.

Schedule

Full-time team members work a rotating 36-40 hour/week schedule, consisting of 12-hour weekday shifts and every-other weekend. PRN (per diem) team members are scheduled on an as-needed basis.

Urgent Care centers are open seven days a week: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. The Little Rock-Markham Street location is open on Saturday and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Benefits

Full-Time Benefits Include:

• Competitive Salary.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Options.
• Retirement savings plans.
• Continuing Education Reimbursement.
• Paid Time Off.

PRN Benefits Include:

• 401K plan with company contribution.
• No-Cost Office Visits and generous discounts on some billable services.
• Malpractice Coverage.
• Access to UpToDate, a clinical resource tool.

About Baptist Health Urgent Care

Baptist Health Urgent Care, with 23 locations in Arkansas, is an affiliate of Urgent Team, one of the largest independent operators of urgent and family care centers in the Southeast. The Urgent Team Family of Centers provides quality and affordable family healthcare at more than 80 locations under eight brands. Baptist Health Urgent Care’s walk-in centers offer treatments for injuries and illnesses, occupational health, and wellness care. All centers are Accredited Care Centers, recognizing the company’s commitment to safety, quality, and scope of services.