Nurse Practitioner - Night Call - Per Diem

Job Description

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

Essential Responsibilities

• Assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the plan of care for a panel of patients.
• Elicits a patient history, performs physical examinations, orders screening and diagnostic tests, assesses risks, and interprets findings to establish diagnoses.
• Develops and implements a plan of care, including treatments, medications, and other interventions, within established guidelines.
• Provides care that promotes patient satisfaction and cost-effective care, and participates in the development and evaluation of practice guidelines.
• Makes appropriate referrals based on patient needs and seeks consultations from the consulting physician and other members of the healthcare team.
• Collaborates with colleagues in APG/BIDHC/BIDCO and the community to develop an effective patient care program.
• Maximizes available resources and incorporates multidisciplinary services into program design and implementation, and participates in quality and process improvement activities.
• Identifies learning needs of patients and staff and collaborates with other leaders to determine priorities for educational programs.
• Participates in interdisciplinary education programs and provides clinical precepting for nursing students, nurse practitioner students, medical students, and others.
• Provides leadership that supports APG, BIDHC practice policies and goals.

Required Qualifications

• Master's degree in Nursing required.
• Licenses: Nursing License required., and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.
• 1-3 years related work experience required.
• Prescriptive authority from both the MA DPH-DCP and Federal DEA.
• 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 such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Access.

Preferred Qualifications

• Geriatric care graduate nursing education.
• Nurse Practitioner experience with part of that time dealing with geriatric patients.

Competencies

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions guided by precedents, policies, and objectives.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address complex, non-recurring problems using innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques.
• Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determine how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
• Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate moderately complex information in various 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 internally and externally to the Medical Center and across functional areas. Results have implications for the management and operations of multiple areas of the organization.
• 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

• 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 -.

Physical Nature of the Job

• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Physical in nature, standing and moving around throughout the majority of the shift.

Pay Range

$62.31 – $84.74