Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Palliative Care

Prisma Health; Maryville (MO); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Prisma Health is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to provide primary health care within established protocols at Blount Memorial Hospital. The NP will follow nursing standards and participate in education programs related to capitated medicine and managed care contracts.

The role requires a Master’s Degree in Nursing with NP emphasis or an equivalent certificate, with prescriptive authority and a DEA license in the working state. Day shift, on-site hospital setting at Blount Memorial Hospital.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Nursing; Nurse Practitioner degree emphasis or certificate equivalent.
• Official Recognition as a Nurse Practitioner in the state where the team member is working.
• Prescriptive Authority for the state in which the team member is working.
• Controlled Substance license for the state in which the team member is working; Federal DEA license.

Responsibilities

• Provides primary health care to a specific patient population within written protocols.
• Follows nursing standards, procedures, and practices.
• Engages in diagnosis and treatment of disease and prescribes treatments as needed.
• Performs charting, summaries, and billing-related documentation.
• Participates in physician education programs related to capitated medicine.
• Participates in responding to proposals for managed care contracts.

Education

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

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.

Participates in:

• 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.
• General Job Expectations:

General Job Expectations

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

• Official Recognition as a Nurse Practitioner in the state the team member is working
• Prescriptive Authority for the state in which the team member is working
• Controlled Substance license for the state in which the team member is working. Federal DEA license

Work Shift

Day (United States of America)

Location

Blount Memorial Hospital

Facility

8112 BMPG Palliative and Hospice

Department

81121000 BMPG Palliative and Hospice

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