Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Wound Care - Blount

Prisma Health • Maryville, TN

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About The Position

Provides primary health care to a specific patient population within the guidelines of written protocols, following established nursing standards, procedures, and practices. The role is in wound care at Blount Memorial Hospital.

The position contributes to clinical care and practice operations, including quality assurance, utilization management, patient education, patient satisfaction, managed care contracting, and operational and capital budgeting. This is a non-management role that reports to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Nursing; Nurse Practitioner Degree Emphasis or Program Certificate equivalent.
• Official recognition as a Nurse Practitioner in the state where the team member is working.
• Prescriptive Authority for the state where the team member is working.
• Controlled Substance license for the state where the team member is working.
• Federal DEA license.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and treat diseases, defects, or injuries, and recommend or prescribe treatments to relieve or cure physical, mental, or functional ailments or defects.
• Complete charting, summaries, correspondence, and other paperwork required to document care and support billing.
• Participate in employer-provided physician 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 public image of the employer.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time