Nurse Practitioner/ Physician Assistant-Brooks City Base

Next Level Urgent Care, LLC; San Antonio, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Next Level Urgent Care, LLC is seeking a Board-certified Nurse Practitioner to provide primary and episodic care in a fast-paced urgent care setting. You will work independently and with a clinical team, following protocols for patient assessment, differential diagnoses, and treatment plans.

Responsibilities include performing exams, ordering tests, prescribing medications, ensuring patient flow, and maintaining safety and infection control standards.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with at least 2 years of clinical experience.
• Board certified as a nurse practitioner with current state licensure.
• DEA licensure with no restrictions.
• BLS certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide primary and episodic care following standards and protocols set by supervising physicians.
• Assure patient flow runs smoothly and efficiently.
• Perform complete physical exams and assessments for urgent, emergent, and non-urgent presentations.
• Order tests and procedures to augment physical findings.
• Define/document differential diagnoses and list most likely diagnoses.
• Collaborate with supervising physician on plan of care.
• Prescribe dosages and instruct patients in correct usage.
• Maintain quality, safety, and infection control standards.
• L earn computer software programs and maintain data for reports.

Skills

Nurse practitioner

Emergency care

Clinical assessment

Patient management

Education

Nurse Practitioner Certification

State licensure

DEA licensure

Tools

EMR/EHR systems

Job description

Job Summary

Provides primary and episodic care to patients – independently and in collaboration with other medical professionals – following standards and protocols set by the Regional Vice Preseident and/or Supervising Physician. Functions as a member of the clinical team and maintains patient flow and maximizes the delivery of quality care to patients. Emphasize health promotion and/or disease prevention through patient education and coordination of care. Follows regulations and guidelines for writing prescriptions.

General Accountabilities:

• Assure patient flow runs smoothly and efficiently
• Follow protocols which provide medical authority when such are indicated in providing care.
• Perform complete physical exams and assessments of patients including urgent, emergent and non-urgent presentation.
• Selects, orders, and perform tests and procedures to augment physical findings.
• Define/document differential diagnoses and list differential diagnoses with most likely diagnoses included.
• Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as deemed necessary and appropriate for plan of care, in collaboration with supervising physician as indicated.
• Interpret data and diagnostic results for appropriate course of action including but not limited to laboratory, radiology, EKG, etc. in collaboration with supervising physician as indicated.
• Performs duties in accordance with the customary rules of ethics and conduct of the applicable State Board of Medicine and other such regulating bodies.
• Prescribes dosages and instruct patients in correct usage.
• Maintains quality, safety, and infection control standards.
• Exercises tact and diplomacy in dealing with sensitive, complex and confidential patient issues and situations.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Learns computer software programs; enters and maintains accurate data and statistical information in order to consistently prepare clear and concise reports.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with at least 2 years of clinical experience.
• Board certified as a nurse practitioner with current state licensure.
• DEA licensure with no restrictions.
• Skilled in traditional nursing disciplines of patient assessment and management.
• Clinical experience in an emergency, urgent care, or ambulatory clinic setting.
• BLS certified