Nurse Practitioner (Department of Medicine- Infectious Diseases)

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; Baltimore (MD); On-site; USD 113,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to deliver specialized clinical care and harm reduction services via a mobile care van, with duties including managing opioid use disorder, HIV, and hepatitis C cases. The role supports PrEP administration, wound care, and mental health services in community settings.

The NP will conduct health assessments, provide medical management, and engage in outreach to re-engage individuals in care, while maintaining licensure and credentialing requirements.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing required.
• RN license and NP certification required.
• Current CPR certification (AHA/ Red Cross) required.
• Licensure and certification must be maintained during employment.
• JHH credentialing process must be completed prior to start date.
• Valid driver's license is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialized clinical care and harm reduction services.
• Manage patients with opioid use disorder, hepatitis C, and HIV.
• Provide PrEP and wound care, address mental health needs.
• Work primarily in a mobile care van, with possible in-person duties at other settings.
• Counsel patients and provide disease information and contraception guidance.
• Perform emergency services as needed and participate in outreach activities.

Skills

CPR certification

Education

Master's Degree in Nursing

RN license and NP certification

Job description

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first researchuniversity and home to nine world-class academic divisions workingtogether as one university.

The Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases at the BaltimoreCity Health Department is seeking a NursePractitioner to provide specialized clinical care and harmreduction services primarily for people who use drugs (PWUD) in a mobile, integrated care van called Healthcare on The Spot. TheNurse Practitioner’s scope of service will include managingpatients living with opioid use disorder, hepatitis C, and HIV,providing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV, woundcare, mental health disorders like anxiety and depression, andsexually transmitted infections.

Though most of the clinical time will be spent on the mobilevan, the provider may provide clinical services in othernon-traditional settings like drop-in centers or alongside outreachteams, meeting people where they are in the community. Medical carewill include obtaining a medical history, performing appropriatephysical examinations, assessing patients’ problems, and resolutionof identified problems by appropriate medical management.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Provider examines and evaluates all new and return patients anddocuments findings. This is to include, as needed: medical history,physical examination, written orders for medications, diagnostictests, and review of results of bacteriologic and laboratoryexaminations.
• Implements protocols for treatment, monitoring adverse effects,and recognizing that the condition of individual patients mayoccasionally require a medical decision to alter certain aspects ofthese protocols.
• Completes all forms requiring the attention of a clinician,i.e., insurance, vocational rehabilitation, social services,automated information management input documents, and abstractspatient records as required.
• Provides consultations, makes patient referrals, and arrangesgeneral hospitalization with appropriate medical careproviders.
• Participates in in-service training and supervises clinicaltraining of approved students and physicians-in-training.
• Participates in research activities authorized by JHU andBCHD.
• Counsels patients, providing disease information abouttreatment, prevention, follow-up care, sex partner referral, andcontraception as appropriate.
• Provides Emergency Services to the Department as needed.
• Works with BCHD outreach and Disease Intervention Specialiststo identify, locate, and attempt to re-engage people who have beenout of healthcare for HIV/HCV/STDs.
• Maintain a current, valid license in accordance with thegoverning board.
• Serve as driver for the mobile clinic (only standard driver’slicense required) and maintain general maintenance for thevan.
• Performs other related tasks as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing; Registered Nurse license andCertified as a Nurse Practitioner.

• Current American Heart Association or American Red Cross CPRcertification required.

• Must maintain current licensure and certification during theduration of employment.

• Completion of the JHH credentialing process is required priorto the start date.

• Valid driver's license.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience tothe extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Classified Title: Nurse Practitioner
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MG
Starting Salary Range: $112,572 - $152,900 Annually ($116,000targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M-F 8:30a-5pm
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: School of Medicine Campus
Department name: SOM DOM ID BCHD
Personnel area: School of Medicine

The following additional provisions may apply depending on whichcampus you will work. Your recruiter will adviseaccordingly.

During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition ofemployment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employeeswho provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care orclinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination orpossess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meetthis requirement may result in termination of employment.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas,laboratories, working with research subjects, or involvingcommunity contact requires documentation of immune status againstRubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella(chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received theTdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may includedocumentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicellavaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratorytesting. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases areordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam exceptforthose employees who provide results of blood tests or immunizationdocumentation from their own health care providers. Anyvaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no costin our Occupational Health office.

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