Under indirect supervision, provides independent primary care in a variety of clinical settings to a specified population of non-emergency patients. Provides consultation and advice to others as a highly-specialized practitioner.
SUMMARY Under indirect supervision, provides independent primary care in a variety of clinical settings to a specified population of non-emergency patients. Provides consultation and advice to others as a highly-specialized practitioner.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.*Performing comprehensive and problem focused history and physical exams, interpret and correlate laboratory and diagnostic procedures. Interpret and correlate subjective and objective data to formulate a differential diagnose and establish a working diagnosis. Formulate a treatment plan for Physical Medicine problems within scope of practice. *Implement therapeutic intervention for specific conditions when appropriate. Exercise judgment on problems requiring consultation, referral, or evaluation by the physician or other health care professionals.*Order, collect, and perform appropriate laboratory or diagnostic procedures, and studies including but not limited to blood and tissue specimens. Ordering or performing diagnostic studies such as but not limited to EMG, electrocardiogram, compartment pressure measurements, and x-ray examinations including special x-ray examinations CT, MRI, and bone scans etc.*Performing procedures such as but not limited to, minor outpatient surgical procedures, trigger point injections, wound management and wound debridement.*Evaluate and clarify clinical conditions, formulate and implement a treatment or therapeutic plan for hospitalized patients, dictate discharge summaries, histories and physicals.*Order, prescribe, dispense, and administer Medication, orthosis, orthotics, braces and other devices as may be allowed by state legislation.*Evaluate, screen and council patient on health maintenance and promote utilization of community resources. Design, conduct and/or participate in research studies, manage databases, and perform quality assurance.*Attends required meetings and participates in committees as requested.*Participates in professional development activities and maintains professional affiliations.*Maintain quality, safety, and infection control standards. SUPERVISIONMay supervisor medical assistants or other medical staff. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organizations policies and applicable laws. QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE - Bachelor´s degree in Nursing (B. S.N.) from a four-year college or university; and Master´s Degree from an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program and two years related experience and training.- State of New Mexico Certified Nurse Practitioner or certification pending, as documented by temporary certificate. LANGUAGE SKILLS Ability to read, analyze, and interpret medical periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from individuals or groups of patients, family, physicians, and the general public.MATHEMATICAL SKILLS Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and draw and interpret graphs.REASONING ABILITY Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS State License Nurse Practitioner Certification. CPR Health Care Provider Course.OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES Nurse Practitioner skills and knowledge. Customer (Patient) Relations, communications and triage skills, telephone skills, organizational skills, and basic computer skills.PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Clinic environment. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to risk of radiation, and infectious diseases. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.