Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Urology - Columbia
About The Position
Provides primary health care to a specific patient population within written protocols and established nursing standards, procedures, and practices. The role includes diagnosing and treating disease, defects, or injuries and recommending or prescribing treatments to relieve or cure physical, mental, or functional ailments or defects. It also involves documenting care and billing through charting, summaries, correspondence, and other required paperwork. The position participates in employer-provided educational programs concerning capitated medicine and its implications for practice patterns, responds to requests for proposals for managed care contracts, and contributes to quality assurance, utilization management, information systems, patient education, and patient satisfaction initiatives. The role also assists with operational and capital budgets and participates in operational assessments to identify revenue enhancement, expense reductions, consolidation efficiencies, and billing opportunities. The employee is expected to maintain courteous, cooperative working relationships with management, employees, physicians, patients, guarantors, and the public, and to participate in activities that further the employer’s public image. This is a non-management position that reports to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Nursing with a Nurse Practitioner degree emphasis, or equivalent program certificate.
- South Carolina Official Recognition as a Nurse Practitioner (NLNP).
- South Carolina Nurse Practitioner Prescriptive Authority.
- South Carolina nursing license.
- South Carolina Controlled Substance license.
- Federal DEA license.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and treat disease, defects, or injuries, and recommend or prescribe treatments for physical, mental, or functional ailments or defects.
- Complete charting, summaries, correspondence, and other paperwork required to document care and billing.
- Participate in educational programs related to capitated medicine and its implications for practice patterns.
- Participate in responding to requests for proposals for managed care contracts.
- Participate in establishing quality assurance and utilization management programs.
- Participate in selecting management information systems.
- Participate in developing patient education services and patient satisfaction surveys.
- Assist in developing operational and capital budgets.
- Participate in operational assessments to identify revenue enhancement, expense reductions, consolidation efficiencies, and billing opportunities.
- Maintain courteous and cooperative working relationships with management, employees, physicians, patients, guarantors, and the general public.
- Participate in activities that further the employer’s public image.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
