[Hiring] Advanced Practice Nurse @Brightli

Role Description

The Nurse Practitioner provides diagnosis, consultation and treatment.

• Carry out physical or psychological exam and record the history of the patient.
• Able to give basic healthcare treatment.
• Writes prescriptions and orders for medical/psychological tests.
• Able to review the condition of the patient and determine the right course of treatment.
• Attending to the needs of patients with the utmost patience, care, compassion and understanding.
• Must be able to function independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for complex, critical and chronically ill patients.
• Ordering and interpreting diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient’s age-specific needs.
• Prescribing appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities.
• Implementing interventions to support the patient to regain or maintain stability, including but not limited to monitoring the effectiveness of interventions.
• Facilitate Medication Services within Substance Use Disorder programs as applicable:
  • Assess patients presenting condition.
  • Facilitate Mental status exam.
  • Review of symptoms and screening for medication side effects.
  • Review of participant functioning.
  • Assess patient’s ability to self-administer medications.
  • Provide education regarding the effects of medication and its relationship to the patient’s substance use disorder and/or mental health disorder as applicable.
• Remain abreast of best practices for treatment of addiction and mental health disorders.
• Adhere to service delivery expectations.
• Facilitating the patient’s transition within the health care setting, e.g. transferring and/or collaborating with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals and facilitating staff, patient and family decision making by providing educational tools.
• Oversee their team through care coordination activities, including daily huddle processes, obtaining test and referral results and communication with outside facilities and providers.
• Develop and approve standing orders as permitted by State law.
• Determine and direct evidence-based approaches to self-management support.
• Collaborate with other team members to address the need of the vulnerable populations identified.

Qualifications

• Prefer previous experience providing care at a community health center or similar environment.
• Current professional license within state of practice in good standing.
• Obtain a Federal DEA license.
• Ability to relate well with patients and other health care personnel.
• Social and cultural sensitivity appropriate to ethnically and economically diverse patient-and associate-base.
• Willingness to explore/obtain DATA 2000 Waiver.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing and accredited Nurse Practitioner Program.
• Licensed as a RN in state of practice.
• Licensed as an APRN in state of practice.
• Two years of experience as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Applicant must be willing to become licensed in additional states, other than the state currently licensed in.
• Applicant must be willing and comfortable with providing telehealth services to the individuals we serve.

Employment Requirements

• Successful completion of background check including criminal record, driving record, abuse/neglect and fingerprint check.
• Completion of New Hire Orientation at the beginning of employment.
• All training requirements including Relias at the beginning of employment and annually thereafter.
• Current driver’s license, acceptable driving record and current auto insurance.

Physical Requirements

• ADA Consideration - Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally (exists up the 1/3 of the time) and/or a negligible amount of force frequently (exists 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) to lift, carry, push, or pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Repetitive movements of hands, fingers, and arms for typing and/or writing during work shift.
• Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time.
• Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Benefits

• Paid time off: full-time employees receive an attractive time off package to balance your work and personal life.
• Employee benefits package: full-time employees receive health, dental, vision, retirement, life, & more.
• Top-notch training: initial, ongoing, comprehensive, and supportive.
• Career mobility: advancement opportunities/promoting from within.
• Welcoming, warm, supportive: a work culture & environment that promotes your well-being, values you as human being, and encourages your health and happiness.