Nurse Practitioner

nlccwi; Hurley (WI); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

403(b) retirement plan

Paid time off

Holidays & leave

Job summary

NorthLakes Community Clinic seeks a Licensed Nurse Practitioner to provide high-quality medical care across Hurley and Ashland locations. You will diagnose, treat, and manage acute and chronic conditions, order tests, prescribe medications, and coordinate care with a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities include telehealth as indicated, preventive care, patient education, and maintaining thorough records.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in nursing and current, valid license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner.
• Licensed to practice in the state with unrestricted privileges.

Responsibilities

• Examine patients, diagnose injuries and illnesses, and provide treatment.
• Order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests and procedures.
• Prescribe medications and provide patient education on healthcare.
• Collaborate with physicians, physician assistants, and nurses as part of a team.
• Maintain thorough patient records and participate in telehealth when indicated.
• Promote preventive healthcare and uphold infection control protocols.

Skills

EHR software

Word processing

Education

Master's Degree in Nursing

Job description

Caring for our community starts with you. Join a team that believes everyone deserves care.

Candidates must reside within NorthLakes' service area at the time of hire and maintain residency throughout employment.

This position is a position between our Hurley and Ashland Clinic locations.

The purpose of a Nurse Practitioner is to promote, maintain, or restore health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments. Providers focus their practice on promoting prevention, taking histories and examining patients; prescribing medications; order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests and procedures. Providers will work as part of a team to promote health and wellness.

Essential Job Functions

The Nurse Practitioner provides high quality medical care by examining patients, diagnosing injuries and illnesses and providing treatment. They order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests. They also work with the patient on promotion of preventive healthcare.

• Conduct routine check-ups to patients to assess their health condition and discover possible issues
• Give appropriate advice for healthy habits (diet, hygiene etc.) and preventative actions to promote overall health
• Conduct examinations to ill patients and evaluate symptoms to determine their condition
• Ask intuitive questions to discover causes of illness
• Reach an informed diagnosis based on scientific knowledge and the patient's medical history
• Prescribe and interpret lab tests to obtain more information for underlying infections or abnormalities
• Prescribe medications or drugs and provide comprehensive instructions for administration
• Plans and administers therapeutic treatment by telephonic/ telehealth methodologies as indicated by patient needs and state guidelines.
• Collaborate with other physicians, physician assistants and nurses to form a high performing medical team
• Examine and provide treatments to injuries and refer patients to other physicians when needed (ophthalmologists, orthopedists, neurologists etc.)
• Appropriate use of PPE/infection control protocols when providing medical treatment to patients.
• Keep records of patients' diagnosis, operations or other significant information ( e.g. allergic episodes)
• Cultivate a climate of trust and compassion for patients
• Remain up-to-speed with developments and best practices in medicine by attending conferences and seminars

Qualifications and Education Requirements

Master's Degree in Nursing and current, valid, and unrestricted license to practice the profession.

Preferred Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Electronic Health Record Database software and Word Processing software.

Benefit Statement

For full time and part time employees who work 24 or more hours per week we offer a generous benefits package that includes:

• Medical and dental insurance
• Employer paid group term life and disability
• Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• 6 weeks Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Leave Bank
• 403(b) with a 4% employer match

Various voluntary benefits:

• Vision Insurance
• Supplemental Life, AD&D and Disability
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health and Wellness reimbursement program
• Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members
• Partner of HRSA/NHSC loan repayment program

Our Mission is to respond to the healthcare needs of our communities with an integrated array of quality services and actively remove barriers to wellness.

NorthLakes Community Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check and references.

At NorthLakes Community Clinic , our organizational competencies highlight the behaviors and values that guide how we work and provide a shared foundation for performance, development, and growth throughout an employee's career with us.

NorthLakes Community Clinic Organizational Competencies

• Mission Driven - Advances the organizational mission, vision and values in executing job duties.
• Customer Service - Committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets proper customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met.
• Quality - Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Creativity - Generates new ideas, supports change, provides innovative solutions, solves problems creatively.

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