Nurse Practitioner (Primary Care) - Equity Health
VIA Health Partners · Greensboro, NC · 4 mo ago
HealthcareFull-time
Essential Functions
- Functions independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for complex acute, critical, and chronically ill patients.
- Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patients’ specific needs.
- Prescribes and/or recommends therapeutic measures, tests, procedures, and drugs (including narcotics) in accordance within the ethical principles of medicine.
- Implements and monitors interventions to support the patient to regain or maintain physiologic stability.
- Facilitates the patient’s transition within and between health care settings.
- Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing necessary education.
Qualifications
- A master’s degree in nursing; current, active, and unrestricted license NC/SC license as Registered Nurse (RN), and official recognition as Nurse Practitioner from NC/SC Board of Nursing.
- Successful board certification in specialty within 2 years of date of hire; current and unrestricted DEA and Basic Life Support required.
- Computer proficiency is required.
- Minimum Qualifications: Prefer 1-year related experience. Experience in direct care of patients with life limiting illnesses preferred. Related experience may include hospice and palliative care; family medicine; internal medicine; geriatrics, oncology; home health care; medical surgical.