Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant

Vera Whole Health•Anchorage, AK

About The Position

Provides comprehensive advanced practice primary care services for patients across the lifespan in ambulatory and community-based care settings. Evaluates, diagnoses, and manages acute and chronic medical conditions through evidence-based assessment, preventive care, health screenings, medication management, patient education, and long-term disease management. Promotes wellness and disease prevention while collaborating with physicians and interdisciplinary care teams to improve health outcomes, enhance care coordination, and deliver high-quality, patient-centered primary care. The Nurse Practitioner, General / Primary Care practices independently within the advanced practice provider scope, making clinical decisions for routine and moderately complex cases and escalating beyond-scope matters to collaborating physicians. Decisions are made with minimal supervision under the physician collaboration model. This job applies Master's-level clinical training to deliver patient care within the defined APP scope and may oversee nursing and allied support staff.

Responsibilities

Evaluate, diagnose, and manage patients with acute illnesses, chronic diseases, and preventive healthcare needs through history-taking, physical examination, diagnostic interpretation, and evidence-based clinical decision-making.
Develop individualized treatment plans that include medication management, preventive services, lifestyle counseling, health promotion, immunizations, and ongoing monitoring of treatment outcomes.
Diagnose and manage common primary care conditions within the advanced practice provider scope, including hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, asthma, COPD, obesity, thyroid disorders, depression, anxiety, musculoskeletal conditions, and infectious diseases.
Order, perform, and interpret laboratory studies, diagnostic imaging, point-of-care testing, electrocardiograms, and other diagnostic evaluations within scope of practice.
Perform office-based procedures within scope, including minor wound care, skin lesion management, joint injections, incision and drainage, and other approved procedures consistent with organizational policies and state regulations.
Conduct annual wellness visits, preventive screenings, health risk assessments, chronic care management, transitional care management, and age-appropriate preventive services in accordance with evidence-based guidelines.
Recognize changes in patient condition, identify complex presentations requiring physician consultation, and coordinate referrals to specialty care, behavioral health, community resources, and ancillary services when indicated.
Collaborate with physicians and interdisciplinary healthcare professionals to coordinate comprehensive patient care across the continuum.
Educate patients and caregivers about diagnoses, medications, preventive health, nutrition, exercise, chronic disease self-management, and treatment plans.
Accurately document patient encounters, medical decision-making, procedures, treatment plans, quality measures, and clinical outcomes in the electronic health record while complying with organizational, regulatory, payer, and value-based care requirements.
Participate in quality improvement initiatives, population health programs, patient safety activities, clinical pathway development, and continuing professional development.