Nurse Practitioner-Neurology - Dementia - Greenville
About The Position
Provides primary health care to a specific patient population within written protocols and follows established nursing standards, procedures, and practices. This neurology role focuses on dementia care in Greenville. The Nurse Practitioner diagnoses and treats diseases, defects, or injuries and recommends or prescribes treatments to relieve or cure physical, mental, or functional ailments or defects. The role also includes documentation and billing paperwork, participation in organizational programs and operational initiatives, and maintaining courteous, cooperative working relationships with colleagues, physicians, patients, guarantors, and the public.
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 works.
- Prescriptive authority for the state where the team member works.
- Controlled Substance license for the state where the team member works.
- Federal DEA license.
Responsibilities
- Diagnose and treat diseases, defects, or injuries, and recommend or prescribe treatments for the relief or cure of physical, mental, or functional ailments or defects.
- Complete charting, summaries, correspondence, and other paperwork required to document care and billing.
- Participate in physician educational programs provided by the employer concerning capitated medicine and its implications for practice patterns.
- Participate in responding to requests for proposals for managed care contracts.
- Participate in establishing quality assurance programs.
- Participate in establishing utilization management programs.
- Participate in selecting management information systems.
- Participate in developing patient education services.
- Participate in developing 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
