Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Pulmonology - Columbia

Prisma Health; Columbia (SC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Prisma Health in Columbia, SC seeks a Nurse Practitioner to provide primary health care within established guidelines and protocols. You will follow nursing standards, document care, and contribute to care quality and efficiency in a pulmonology practice.

The role involves collaboration with physicians, participation in program development, and active engagement in budget and billing processes to support patient outcomes and organizational goals.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Nursing required.
• Nurse Practitioner degree emphasis or program certificate equivalent required.
• SC official recognition NP NLNP; prescriptive authority license; SC controlled substances license including Federal DEA required.

Responsibilities

• Engages in diagnosis and treatment of disease, defects or injuries and recommends or prescribes treatments.
• Performs charting, summaries, and paperwork for documentation of care and billing.
• Participates in physician educational programs related to capitated medicine and practice patterns.
• Participates in responding to RFPs for managed care contracts.
• Contributes to quality assurance, utilization management, MIS selection, patient education, and patient satisfaction surveys.
• Assists in development of operational and capital budgets; participates in revenue enhancement and expense reduction efforts.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Patient care

Documentation

Education

Master's degree in Nursing

NP degree emphasis or program certificate

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:

  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

Day (United States of America)

Location

1 Medical Park Rd Richland

Facility

Pulmonology 1 Med Park 300

Department

Pulmonology 1 Med Park 300-Practice Operations

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