Nurse Practitioner - Equity Health/Primary Care
About The Position
Equity Health provides accessible primary care, care navigation, and advanced care planning to improve healthcare outcomes, including reducing hospitalizations and emergency room visits and increasing patient and employee satisfaction. The Nurse Practitioner provides comprehensive medical care to Equity Health patients and serves as a medical resource for VIA staff. The role includes independent assessment and management of complex acute, critical, and chronically ill patients, as well as supporting staff training and education for healthcare professionals and the public. The position is based in Forsyth County, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and involves road travel.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in nursing.
- Current, active, and unrestricted Registered Nurse license in North Carolina or South Carolina.
- Official recognition as a Nurse Practitioner from the North Carolina or South Carolina Board of Nursing.
- Successful board certification in the specialty within two years of hire.
- Current and unrestricted DEA registration.
- Current Basic Life Support certification.
- Computer proficiency.
Nice To Haves
- One year of related experience preferred; new graduates are welcome to apply.
- Experience providing direct care to patients with life-limiting illnesses preferred.
- Related experience may include hospice and palliative care, family medicine, internal medicine, geriatrics, oncology, home health care, or medical-surgical care.
Responsibilities
- Independently perform age-appropriate histories and physical examinations for complex acute, critical, and chronically ill patients.
- Order and interpret diagnostic and therapeutic tests based on patients’ specific needs.
- Prescribe and/or recommend therapeutic measures, tests, procedures, and drugs, including narcotics, in accordance with ethical principles of medicine.
- Implement and monitor interventions that help patients regain or maintain physiologic stability.
- Facilitate patients’ transitions within and between healthcare settings.
- Support staff, patient, and family decision-making by providing necessary education.
- Provide comprehensive medical care to Equity Health patients.
- Serve as a medical resource for VIA staff.
- Assist with staff training and the education and training of healthcare professionals and the public.
- Optimize cost-effective plans of care.
- Assist in developing policies.
- Maximize clinical efficiency to optimize reimbursement.
- Submit billing and documentation according to policy.
- Perform other duties as required.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental plans through BCBS.
- 28 days of paid time off.
- Mileage reimbursement.
- 403(b) retirement plan with matching.
- Programs honoring veteran patients.
- Orientation and onboarding program.
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Job Type
Full-time
