Nurse Practitioner – PCP – Winthrop, MA

Description:

A primary care nurse practitioner is a licensed independent practitioner who provides nursing and medical services to individuals, families, and groups. A nurse practitioner diagnoses and manages acute episodic and chronic illnesses while emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention. Services may include ordering, conducting, supervising, and interpreting diagnostic and laboratory tests, and prescription of pharmacologic agents and non-pharmacologic therapies.

Full time equivalent (FTE) Adult Medicine Advanced Practice Clinical (APC) PCP position will entail 32 clinic hours per week and 8 follow up hours. The expectation for the provider is to have 2.5 patients scheduled per hour. In addition, there are expectation independent of the clinic hour calculation and FTE status. These include regular attendance at certain departmental meetings, other special departmental activities (e.g., work groups and committees), cell availability at least 8AM-5PM Monday through Friday, daily electronic in-basket and email monitoring, and responsibility for clinical and administrative follow up for a panel of primary care patients, including participation in the after-hours coverage rotations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Obtains comprehensive and problem focused health history
• Performs a comprehensive and problem focused physical exam
• Orders and interprets screening and diagnostic tests
• Demonstrates critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in clinical decision making.
• Communicates with patients re: clinical findings
• Initiates appropriate and timely consultations (NP, PA & MD)

Qualifications and Requirements:

• MA License as NP
• BLS, ACLS, PALS Certification, as required by department
• 3+ year relevant experience preferably in a community health setting

Hours – 8a-5p, M-F with no weekends or nights

Salary: $137,000 – $189,000 DOE
** This position also comes with AMAZING benefits that include a loan forgiveness program.