Overview
Temah Family practice is looking for a Family Nurse Practitioner or an Adult Nurse Practitioner who is willing to work part-time or full-time.
Responsibilities
- Diagnosing and treating acute illnesses, infections, and injuries such as medical illness.
- Management and treatment of common chronic conditions such as medical illness
- Telemedicine/telephonic consultations
- Chronic Care Management of medical illnesses
- Diagnosing and Treating substance use disorder including opioid use disorder
- Medication management including suboxone and monthly vivitrol
- Ordering, performing, and interpreting diagnostic studies.
- Medication management and reconciliation
- Collaborating with physicians, mental health team, and other health professionals
- Referral of patients to specialist as indicated including mental health
- Referral of patients to physical, occupation, and speech therapy (worked with Baltimore Ortho)
- Provides health education patients and families and connecting them to necessary resources
- Coordinating care to contribute to reduction in re-hospitalization
- Patient Advocacy
- Administer age- appropriate immunization
- Perform other duties as assigned