Nurse Practitioner

Responsibilities

• Serve as consultant to USPTO Management on all matters regarding occupational medicine.
• Practice clinical medicine involving the performance of emergency, diagnostic, and preventive health care services.
• Services are to include physical examinations and emergency medical treatment, as appropriate, as well as preventive health screening programs, occupational health surveillance examinations, health counseling, etc.
• Provide cardiac emergency care in accordance with current Advanced Cardiac Life Support guidelines, to include external pacing, intravenous access and medication delivery, endotracheal intubation, manual defibrillation, among others.
• Wound care to include suture placement and removal.
• Perform various physical examinations, such as fitness for duty, pre-employment, and DOT exams.
• Evaluate and render opinions regarding the medical aspects of fitness-for-duty exams, pre-employment physical exams, and USPTO employee FECA claims arising from reported occupational injury/illness/disease;
• Serve as USPTO representative in obtaining and assessing medical information from referral physicians to reconcile OWCP cases when requested by the USPTO COR or his/her designee.
• Provide consultation, medical document review, and advice to the appropriate USPTO staff regarding employee requests for reasonable accommodations, and advice to Civil Rights and Diversity Office to identify and eliminate employment barriers at USPTO.
• Evaluation of health services provided by the USPTO Health Unit with recommendations to the USPTO Safety and Health Manager for changes in or broadening of service, as appropriate.
• Provision of consultation and advice to the USPTO staff regarding occupational health concerns arising from research projects, etc.
• Consult as necessary with other medical professionals, e.g., patients' primary care physician, to render judgments as to fitness for duty, reasonable accommodation, etc.
• Provide medical and administrative support, as appropriate, to the USPTO-EAP counselor in connection with the USPTO-EAP program (i.e. for alcohol abuse, drug abuse, emotional stress, etc.).
• Coordinate activities, training opportunities, and patient care best practices with the USPTO staff.
• Serve as a member of any USPTO committees that may be formed requiring the input of the Medical Officer to determine internal USPTO policy.
• Performs portions of physical examination, e.g., weight, height, blood pressure, EKG, vision, hearing, cancer screening, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program
• Possess and maintain Nurse Practitioner License in any of the 50 States or District of Columbia
• Possess and maintain certification in Cardiopulmonary Respiration (CPR)
• Possess and maintain Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Minimum one (1) year of full-time experience within in the last three (3) years as a Nurse Practitioner in an Occupational Health setting or Family Practice setting.