Pediatric Nurse Practitioner PRN
About The Position
Our vision is a world of peaceful relationships with food, weight, and body image, where everyone with an eating disorder can experience recovery. We believe that exceptional, individualized care leads to lasting recovery from eating disorders. That’s why our teams are comprised of compassionate, dedicated professionals from a variety of backgrounds who collaborate to provide the very best evidence-based care for our clients at all levels of care. As a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at The Emily Program, you are responsible for providing medical assessment and treatment for all patients in accordance with your training, licensing, and state regulations at the sites where you are assigned. The provider is expected to function as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team, treating patients with eating disorders and related or comorbid conditions. The provider will serve such patients in a gender-inclusive environment and across all higher levels of care. Medical Nurse Practitioners are also encouraged to participate in quality and performance improvement activities.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree
- Two or more years of practice, with a preference for experience in hospitals, complex medical conditions, and work with psychiatric patients.
- Duly certified and licensed Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant, by appropriate national certifying body and state (GA) licensing agency.
- Appropriate (GA) State Licensure to practice independently in field, with prescriptive authority.
Nice To Haves
- experience in hospitals
- experience with complex medical conditions
- experience working with psychiatric patients
Responsibilities
- Provide direct medical services through the comprehensive evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of patients, including appropriate exam, work-up and the prescription of medications and other interventions as indicated.
- Evaluate, diagnose, and treat medical complications of eating disorders, as well as intercurrent conditions, for patients at all levels of care. Frequency of visits should be dictated by clinical need and facilitate appropriate medical care for the clinical severity and in accordance with direction from site medical leadership.
- Develop the medical treatment plans of all assigned patients and update with each site visit.
- Liaise by telephone with each patient’s ambulatory provider, at a minimum, at admission, discharge, and as needed during treatment in the context of significant concerns.
- Liaise by telephone with families of patients as indicated.
- Evaluate all patients on caseload within two weeks of discharge, to assess stability for next level of care, and to complete follow-up recommendations and discharge summary.
- Work with the Utilization Review team to provide medical information to support the facilitation of peer-to-peer insurance reviews, determination of appropriate levels of care, arbitration of clinical appeals, etc.
- Participate in staff conferences and education, and serve on clinical committees, as assigned.
- Complete all documentation in a timely manner
- Participate in on-call schedule.
- Provide education about medical complications and comorbidities of eating disorders to family and patients as needed.
- Participate in program development with as interest and assigned.
- Maintain license and supervision requirements in association with on-site collaborating physician.
- Perform other duties as assigned or identified
Benefits
- HSA and PPO insurance with HSA or FSA options (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
- Dental insurance (Delta Dental)
- Vision insurance (EyeMed)
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Company-paid life insurance
- 401(k) plan available two months after start date
- Company 401(k) matching for up to 50% of your contribution, up to 6% of your compensation
- Paid time off
- seven paid holidays
- one floating holiday
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
