Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Anchor

Job Summary

The NP Primary Care Anchor will partner with primary care teams to assist Primary Care Providers (PCPs) in managing their panels of patients. Job tasks include triage, prescription refills, care management, patient education and medical visits. In this role, they would enhance their understanding of triage, diagnoses, treatment, and care coordination. This work would enhance the knowledge and capacity of the new graduate NP and would evolve in their independent management of simple to increasingly complex direct care. Work would include didactic instruction and close supervision and precepting by experienced PCPs as the NP grows to become integral to the primary care team.

Employees in this position who show excellence in their skills could transition to a full-time PCP role at the end of 1-3 years of employment.

Qualifications

Master of Science in Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from an accredited school of graduate nursing; active license for Registered nurse and Nurse Practitioner in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Representative Job Duties

• Consistently and effectively provides timely, safe, and appropriate patient/family care.
• Involves the patient, significant others and appropriate health care providers in collection of data when appropriate.
• Consistently uses clear, concise, and effective written/oral communication and complies with departmental policies when sharing relevant patient care data.
• Demonstrates critical thinking skills, derives and documents appropriate diagnoses from patient and family assessment.
• Identifies expected outcomes individualized to patients and provides follow-up care as needed, documents these clinical and educational outcomes consistent with the patient’s diagnoses and capabilities and educates patients and families on treatment of illness, health maintenance and prevention.
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide age-specific care and consults appropriate resources when serving patients outside the Center’s regular patient population.
• Effective and appropriate delegates patient care to coworkers or outside agencies as needed.
• Provides appropriate follow-up care as needed.
• Practices in compliance with established practice standards, policies, procedures, protocols, and regulations. Completes all mandatory requirements.
• Provides education to patients and family, focusing on self-care appropriate to their age and identified learning considerations and needs.
• Demonstrates an ability to remain calm, perform effectively and professionally during peak periods of activity and emergency situations.
• Acts as a resource for Registered Nurses, Medical Assistants, and support staff as needed.
• Assumes other duties as assigned.

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Please submit cover letter and resume to hr@sbchc.org.