Nurse Practitioner

Description Kingsway Arms Nursing Center is seeking a compassionate, clinically skilled Nurse Practitioner to join our medical team. This role is integral to overseeing and supporting the delivery of high-quality care and services for approximately 160 residents receiving both long-term and short-term rehabilitation care. The Nurse Practitioner will work collaboratively with physicians, nursing leadership, rehabilitation, social work, dietary services, activities, and other interdisciplinary team members to promote resident-centered outcomes, timely clinical decision-making, and regulatory-compliant care.

The Nurse Practitioner will provide advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, care planning, and ongoing medical management for nursing home residents in accordance with New York State scope-of-practice requirements, facility policies, professional standards, and applicable federal and state regulations. This is an opportunity for a provider who values relationship-based care, teamwork, clinical excellence, and meaningful involvement in the daily life of a skilled nursing facility.

Key Responsibilities Conduct comprehensive and focused resident assessments, including admission, routine, acute-change-in-condition, post-hospital, and follow-up evaluations. Diagnose and manage acute and chronic medical conditions in collaboration with attending physicians, medical directors, specialists, and other members of the healthcare team. Develop, implement, evaluate, and update individualized plans of care.

Prescribe medications, treatments, diagnostic tests, therapeutic interventions, and referrals within the Nurse Practitioner’s New York State scope of practice. Respond promptly to changes in resident condition, helping to prevent avoidable hospital transfers when clinically appropriate. Participate in medication review, infection prevention, wound care oversight, pain management, behavioral-health support, and other clinical quality initiatives.

Collaborate closely with nursing staff to provide clinical guidance, reinforce best practices, and support resident safety. Participate in interdisciplinary care-plan meetings, family conferences, discharge-planning discussions, and other resident-centered care processes as needed. Ensure timely, accurate, and complete clinical documentation. Support compliance with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requirements, New York State Department of Health regulations, facility policies, and standards of professional practice.

Contribute to quality assurance and performance-improvement activities, including review of clinical trends, adverse events, hospitalizations, infections, falls, wounds, and other quality indicators. Foster respectful communication with residents, families, staff, physicians, consultants, and community partners. Requirements Qualifications Current, unrestricted New York State license as a Registered Professional Nurse and Nurse Practitioner.

Current DEA registration and prescriptive authority, as applicable. Clinical experience in long-term care, skilled nursing, post-acute care, geriatrics, internal medicine, family practice, rehabilitation, or a related setting strongly preferred. Strong assessment, diagnostic reasoning, communication, documentation, and care-coordination skills. Ability to work effectively as part of an interdisciplinary team and build collaborative relationships with residents, families, and staff.

Knowledge of geriatric syndromes, chronic-disease management, post-acute rehabilitation, medication management, infection prevention, and regulatory expectations in a nursing-home setting preferred. Commitment to dignity, resident choice, compassionate care, and continuous quality improvement.