Description:
- FLSA Status – Exempt
- EEO Category – Professional
Our Mission: To improve lives by providing convenient, comprehensive, high-quality healthcare to every person in every community that we serve.
Our Vision: CCHN will maintain its position as the leading community health center in the state and become a model for all other healthcare organizations to follow.
MAJOR FUNCTION:
Provides nursing care within the scope of a NJ licensed Nurse Practitioner
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Assess the bio/psycho/social/spiritual health status of individual clients and families through history taking, data collection, and physical exam
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Assists staff nurses to facilitate care for walk-in patients
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Completes accurate documentation according to site specific standards
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Works in collaboration with staff, physicians, allied health professionals, and others to implement the patients plan of care
Provides pharmacological care within the scope of a NJ Certified Nurse Practitioner
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Participates in annual update of joint practice protocols as per NJ Board of Nursing guidelines
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Prescribes or make judgments regarding pharmacologic agents and therapeutic devices
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Dispenses/Administers/Prescribes medications according to policy & protocol
Provides nurse practitioner care within the scope of a NJ Certified Nurse Practitioner
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Recognizes and manages deviations from health
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Recognizes patients whose problem is out of scope of practice and obtain appropriate care
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Orders appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
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Follows up on laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
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Communicates with patient to arrive at mutually agreed upon plan of care to include actual and potential health problems, both medical and nursing in nature
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Evaluation and revision of patient plan of care is ongoing
Provides health education
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Informs, teaches and guides clients/families to assume responsibility for management of their own health
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Individualizes education to facilitate patient independence and optimize patient self care
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Educates patients on pharmacological agents, therapeutic devices, laboratory or diagnostic testing
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Promotes health education for groups of patients, families, staff, agencies, communities, and organizations pertinent to area of specialty as appropriate to program
Provides referral and case management
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Refers patients to internal resources according to program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
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Refers patients for specialty care as per program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
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Refers patients to primary care as appropriate
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Follows up on referrals according to site specific standards
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Case manages client care according to program standards and patients plan of care
Requirements:
QUALIFICATIONS:
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Unrestricted license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner from the State Board of Nurses for New Jersey and official recognition from the same State Board to practice as a Nurse Practitioner
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Employee shall maintain registration including prescriptive authorization with the New Jersey Board of medical Examiners,
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Maintain Board Certification
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Maintain Active CPR
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Ability to stand, swift waling, lifting, moving patients as needed
The above job description is not to be construed as a complete listing of the assignments that may be given to any employee, nor are such assignments restricted to those precisely listed in the description.
