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Nurse Practitioner - Region 6 Title: Nurse Practitioner - Region 6 Location: Highland Hills, OH 44128 Schedule: 16-20 hours per week (day shift) Duration: 12+ Months. Pay Rate: $70/hr- $90/hr (Depending upon experience). Key Responsibilities: • Creates & implements patient care plans and performs advanced nursing duties within boundaries of licensure. • Monitors progress of patients and intervenes in the course of chronic illness.
• Performs routine physical examinations of patients to determine control or status of chronic conditions & diagnose new conditions. • Evaluates acute & chronically ill patients & prescribes medications or administers treatment of acute & • chronically ill patients. • Completes discharge planning/follow-up care for clients/patients/youth/inmates with chronic care and/or medical issues.
• Performs minor surgery as training & competency allows. • Evaluates necessity for referral consultations inside or outside the institutional, facility or correctional setting. • Orders & reviews results of laboratory, x-ray & other diagnostic testing. • Inoculates or vaccinates patients against communicable diseases. • Maintains required medical records: • Documents medical information gathered during patient interviews according to agency guidelines, policies, protocols & agency-professionally accredited standards.
• Documents assessments & diagnostic impressions including treatment plans & follow up parameters. • Cooperates monthly with institutional Chief Medical Officer (CMO) or agency equivalent for medical quality oversight. • Provides clinical direction to registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, phlebotomists & other caregivers. • Participates in professional & agency committees & meetings: • Attends professional institutional specific meetings as requested by warden, deputy warden or chief medical officer.
• Participates in continuous quality improvement measures & attends monthly meeting. • Attends quarterly medical meetings. • Serves as resource for patients & families utilizing areas of clinical expertise & provides advice regarding • health maintenance & promotion & identifies health risk factors. • Attends in-services &/or other continuing education offerings relative to growth & development as nurse practitioner.
Major Worker Characteristics: • Knowledge of skilled registered nursing procedures; advanced nurse practices; HIPAA regulations; state & federal regulations, policies & procedures related to nursing; human relations; employee training & development. • Health care services & program management; counseling; interviewing. Skill in use of equipment (e.g., surgical equipment, ophthalmoscope, stethoscope, BP cuff, EKG machine, otoscope, reflex hammer); operation of personal computer.
• Ability to handle sensitive telephone & face-to-face inquiries & contacts with general public; possess strong clinical base in order to make judgments & decisions regarding patient care & treatment. • Deal with some abstract but mostly concrete variables; define problems, collect data, establish facts & draw valid conclusions; gather, collate & classify information about data, people or things; understand & follow philosophies, policies & procedures of facility.
• Establish & maintain positive rapport with patients, patients' families, nursing & other department &/or agency staff; maintain confidentiality of information. Required Qualifications: • Ohio License • Basic Life Support (BLS/CPR) Certification. • Covid vaccine • Drug Enforcement Administration certification from Ohio • ANCC