Nurse Practitioner

Company: Complete Care Health Network
Location: Vineland
Posted on: June 18, 2022

Job Description:

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Our Mission: To improve lives by providing 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.

At CompleteCare we are patients serving patients. We know what its like to be on the other side of the desk, so we are driven by the common purpose to continually exceed expectations at every turn.

CompleteCare employees are a particularly dedicated group of individuals who are good at what they do and want to use their skills to help people. Working for the community requires diligence and efficiency, but more than anything else, CompleteCare knows that kindness is the best way to truly make a difference.

If you are someone who wants to be the change, then we want you to join our team!

Major Function: Functions in an expanded role within nursing practice to provide and promote dermatologic care, and health education to age appropriate population based on education.

Quality Standards:
Professionalism
Positivity
Productivity
Promptness
Kindness
Job Duties include, but not limited to:

Provides nursing care within the scope of a NJ licensed registered nurse
Assess the bio/psycho/social/spiritual health status of individual clients and families through history taking, data collection, and physical exam
Assists staff nurses to facilitate care for walk-in patients
Completes accurate documentation according to site specific standards
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
Participates in annual update of joint practice protocols as per NJ Board of Nursing guidelines
Prescribes or make judgments regarding pharmacologic agents and therapeutic devices
Dispenses/Administers/Prescribes medications according to policy & protocol
Provides nurse practitioner care within the scope of a NJ Certified Nurse Practitioner
Recognizes and manages deviations from health
Recognizes patients whose problem is out of scope of practice and obtain appropriate care
Orders appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
Follows up on laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
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
Evaluation and revision of patient plan of care is ongoing
Provides health education
Informs, teaches and guides clients/families to assume responsibility for management of their own health
Individualizes education to facilitate patient independence and optimize patient self care
Educates patients on pharmacological agents, therapeutic devices, laboratory or diagnostic testing
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
Refers patients to internal resources according to program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
Refers patients for specialty care as per program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
Refers patients to primary care as appropriate
Follows up on referrals according to site specific standards
Case manages client care according to program standards and patients plan of care
EOE
Requirements
Experience:

Must have a minimum of 3 years of experience

Qualifications:
HS Diploma or equivalent
NJ RN Licensure
NJ NP Certification with prescriptive privileges
Valid CPR

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