Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Wexford Health Sources; Augusta (WV); On-site; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Guaranteed salary or hourly rate

No nights or weekends

No insurance authorizations

Patient and medicine focused

Job summary

Wexford Health Sources, Inc. is recruiting a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant for a part-time position at Potomac Highlands Regional Jail in Augusta, West Virginia. The role focuses on ambulatory and primary care within a correctional setting, providing medical services to an incarcerated population and coordinating care.

The schedule is 8 hours per week (Tuesdays 8am-4pm) with no nights or weekends and no required insurance authorizations, as stated in the posting.

Qualifications

• WV State NP or PA license required at start date
• State DEA required at start date
• Current CPR certification required at start date

Responsibilities

• Provides medical services to incarcerated population.
• Utilizes professional medical skills to meet a variety of health care needs, with ambulatory and primary care as a focus.
• Provides a broad range of medical services to the facility including assessment, identification and treatment of medical (acute and/or chronic) concerns, health education to patients, and illness and injury prevention.
• Performs paraprofessional medical services of an advanced technical nature to the inmate population as appropriate.
• Prepares written prescription orders for drugs; administers medication and injections; sutures wounds and provides wound care.
• Coordinates with other health care employees in the delivery of care.
• Orders medications for patients following licensure authority in coordination with company and facility guidelines.
• Utilizes EMR for charting in a format as designated to document pertinent patient information in chronological order in the health record.

Education

NP or PA program graduate

Job description

POSITION: Nurse Practitioner/ Physician Assistant

SCHEDULE: Part Time, 8 hours per week (Tuesdays 8am-4pm)

FACILITY: Potomac Highlands Regional Jail, onsite

LOCATION: Augusta, WV

Wexford Health Sources, Inc. is one of the nation's largest correctional health care providers. Over the past 30 years, our team of dedicated clinical professionals has helped millions of justice-involved patients receive life-changing medical and mental health services.

• Guaranteed salary or hourly rate
• No nights or weekends
• No insurance authorizations
• Patient and medicine focused

Position Summary

• Provides medical services to incarcerated population.
• Utilizes professional medical skills to meet a variety of health care needs, with ambulatory and primary care as a focus.
• Provides a broad range of medical services to the facility including assessment, identification and treatment of medical (acute and/or chronic) concerns, health education to patients, and illness and injury prevention.
• Performs paraprofessional medical services of an advanced technical nature to the inmate population as appropriate.
• Prepares written prescription orders for drugs; administers medication and injections; sutures wounds and provides wound care.
• Coordinates with other health care employees in the delivery of care.
• Orders medications for patients following licensure authority in coordination with company and facility guidelines.
• Utilizes EMR for charting in a format as designated to document pertinent patient information in chronological order in the health record.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• WV State NP or PA license required at start date
• State DEA required at start date

Certification

• Current CPR certification required at start date

EDUCATION

Graduate of college/university NP or PA program

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

1-2 years clinical experience preferred.

EOE/M/F/D/V

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