Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Pediatric Neurosurgery - Columbia

Prisma Health; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Columbia, SC, seeks a Nurse Practitioner to deliver primary healthcare according to established practices. Responsibilities include diagnosing conditions, maintaining patient documentation, and contributing to quality assurance programs. Candidates must possess a Master's Degree in Nursing and appropriate certifications for practice in South Carolina. This role is non-management and part of a supportive healthcare team dedicated to community health transformation.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing required.
• Nurse Practitioner Degree or equivalent certificate required.
• South Carolina Official Recognition Nurse Practitioner - NLNP needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary health care services to patients.
• Engage in the diagnosis and treatment of ailments.
• Maintain documentation for care and billing.

Skills

Diagnosis and treatment of disease

Patient education services

Charting and documentation

Quality assurance program development

Courteous communication

Education

Master's Degree in Nursing

Nurse Practitioner Degree

Job description

Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.

Job Summary

Provides primary health care to a specific patient population within the guidelines of written protocols. Follows established nursing standards, procedures, and practices.

Accountabilities

• Engages in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, defects or injuries and recommend or prescribe treatments for the relief or cure of physical, mental or functional ailments or defects.
• Performs all charting, summaries, correspondence and assorted paperwork that is required for purposes of documenting care and billing.
• Participates in physician educational programs provided by Employer relative to capitated medicine and its implications on physician practice patterns.
• Participates in responding to requests for proposals for managed care contracts.
• Establishment of quality assurance programs.
• Establishment of utilization management programs.
• Selection of management information systems.
• Development of patient education services.
• Development of patient satisfaction surveys.
• Assists in the development of operational and capital budgets.
• Participates in operational assessments in search of revenue enhancement, expense reductions, consolidation efficiencies and billing opportunities.
• Maintain courteous and cooperative working relationships with all levels of management and employees, physicians, patients, guarantors and the general public.
• Participates in activities that would further the public's image of the Employer.

Supervisory/Management Responsibility

This is a non-management job that will report to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive.

Minimum Requirements

Master's Degree in Nursing; Nurse Practitioner Degree Emphasis or Program Certificate equivalent.

Required Certifications/Registrations/Licenses

• South Carolina Official Recognition Nurse Practitioner - NLNP
• Prescriptive Authority South Carolina Nursing License
• South Carolina Controlled Substance license; Federal DEA license

Work Shift

Variable (United States of America)

Location

9 Medical Park Rd Richland

Facility

3489 Neurosurgical 3 Med Park 310

Department

34891000 Neurosurgical 3 Med Park 310-Practice Operations

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