Nurse Practitioner-Internal Medicine

About the role

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Responsibilities

• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the plan of care for a panel of patients.
• Evaluates individual health care status of patients, including eliciting a patient history, performance of physical examination, ordering of screening and diagnostic tests, risk assessment and interprets this information to establish a diagnosis.
• Develops and implements a plan of care, including treatments, medications and the like within defined guidelines for practice.
• Provides care to the patient in a manner that incorporates the principles of patient satisfaction and delivery of cost effective care.
• Participates in the development and evaluation of practice guidelines.
• Monitors the individual's response to therapy and revises the plan, as indicated, with particular attention to education and counseling and encouragement of self-care.
• Provides ongoing individualized patient orientation to APG/BIDCO.
• Seeks consultation from the consulting physician and other members of the healthcare team.
• Makes appropriate referrals as indicated by patient needs.
• Identifies learning needs of patients and staff and collaborates with other leaders to determine priorities for educational programs.
• Participates in interdisciplinary education programs of the practice and provides clinical precepting for nursing students, nurse practitioner students, medical students and others.
• Provides leadership that supports APG, BIDHC practice policies and goals.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Nursing required.
• Nursing License required.
• Basic Life Support Certificate required.
• 1-3 years related work experience required.
• Valid prescriptive authority from both the MA DPH-DCP and Federal DEAMA Board authorization to practice as an APRN NRSG American Heart Association-Basic Life Support Certificate.
• Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.
• Influenza (flu) vaccination required as a condition of employment.

Qualifications

• Related primary care practice expertise.
• Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
• Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
• Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.
• Team Work: Ability to lead collaborative teams for larger projects or groups both internal and external to the Medical Center and across functional areas.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.
• Age Based Competencies: Employees must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Neonatal (Birth to 6 months), Youth (6 months to 16 years), Young adult (16-30 years), Middle Age (30 - 60 years), Elderly (60+).
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