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Family Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care - Eminence, MO
Summary
The Nurse Practitioner provides comprehensive, patient-centered primary healthcare services to clinic patients in both on-site and off-site settings. Responsibilities include assessing, diagnosing, and managing uncomplicated acute and chronic illnesses, treating minor injuries, providing preventive care, and offering anticipatory guidance and health education to promote overall health and wellness. The Nurse Practitioner obtains and evaluates patient and family health histories, documents clinical findings accurately in the electronic medical record (EMR), and develops appropriate care plans based on individual patient needs. This position exercises sound clinical judgment in determining appropriate treatment, identifying conditions requiring physician consultation or referral, and coordinating care with other healthcare professionals and community resources. The Nurse Practitioner also collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary staff to enhance the quality and delivery of primary healthcare services and supervises allied health personnel as needed.
Responsibilities
- Provides clinical management for clinic patients on site or off site, including health supervision of uncomplicated illness, including chronic illness, persons with minor accidents and anticipatory guidance.
- Elicits and records health histories for individuals and families in a systematic and succinct form and critically evaluates and documents the findings in the patient’s chart.
- Assumes responsibility for health surveillance relevant to health teaching to promote optimal physical and mental health to prevent illness and establish a Wellness mode.
- Must show proficiency in computer skills, as MHHC utilizes EMR exclusively for patient charting and billing.
- Supervises, as deemed necessary, allied health personnel when appropriate to complete above objectives.
- Uses sound judgment in deciding which persons can be served by the Nurse Practitioner and which should be referred either to physicians for differential medical diagnosis or to other community resources.
- Collaborates with other professional staff members, physicians and other health professionals in devising improved and ongoing ways to deliver quality primary health care.
Experience Requirements
Active State Licensure as Nurse Practitioner in the State of Missouri
BLS – Basic Life Support
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