Nurse Practitioner – FT

Job Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive health care in the care of patients, long-term care facilities, schools, and community settings, as per OCHC policy and procedures and collaborative practice agreements/protocols, utilizing equipment, supplies, and procedures appropriate to the ages of the patients served including neonate, infant, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Obtains and documents all relevant health history.
• Performs physical examination and documents relevant findings.
• Orders laboratory, radiological, and other diagnostic tests as indicated by physical findings and history.
• Reviews and signs results of laboratory, radiological, and diagnostic tests in a timely manner.
• Performs and documents diagnostic tests and procedures within the scope of practice/education.
• Identifies and documents patient, family, and community health deviations, health related deficits, and education and treatment needs.
• Develops and implements a plan of care, with the patient and appropriate others, which may include additional testing, education and counseling, health promotion, prescription of medications, referral, and follow-up, and documents in the patient record.
• Educates and counsels individuals and/or their families on health, health promotion, and illness, based on identified needs.
• Provides health care related consultation to and collaborates with community agencies and organizations.
• Precepts students assisting or observing in the school based clinic, maintaining an open channel of communication with instructors, fostering a positive attitude toward students, assisting with student evaluations, and assuring students function within the scope of their abilities and regulatory constraints.
• Participates in the clinical education and development of clinic staff.
• Documentation is completed and signed within 72 hours after patient has been seen.
• Reviews and responds to task list daily to ensure patients questions/scripts/results are answered within 48/72 hours.
• Participates in quality data and strives to achieve goals set each year.
• Provides correct documentation, diagnoses codes and correct template to ensure correct coding/billing occurs.
• Corrections from coding are completed in a timely manner.