Full-time/Part-time Family Nurse Practitioner Needed at Northern Family Medicine Center in St. Petersburg, FL

The Northern Family Medicine Center focus on screening and preventive primary care services delivered in the home, community, and nursing facility settings. Provides needed care in the environment that patients feel most comfortable and are most receptive including home, nursing facilities, and “pop up” clinics.

The Nurse Practitioner will be required to work primarily in non-clinical settings and provide medical care to all levels of patients. Some programs may focus on specific populations (e.g., adult and geriatric, pediatric, women’s health).

Perform comprehensive medical assessments, order appropriate tests/procedures for diagnostic purposes, formulate treatment plans, obtain specialists' consultations as needed, and do appropriate documentations as required.

Weekly Schedule:
Monday, Wednesday & Friday: 8:00a.m. – 5:00p.m.

Responsibilities:

• Provides needed care in the environment that patients feel most comfortable and are most receptive including home, nursing facilities, and “pop up” clinic.
• The Nurse Practitioner will be required to work primarily in non-clinical settings and provide medical care to all levels of patients.
• Some programs may focus on specific populations (e.g., adult and geriatric, pediatric, women’s health).
• Perform comprehensive medical assessments, order appropriate tests/procedures for diagnostic purposes, formulate treatment plans, obtain specialists' consultations as needed, and do appropriate documentations as required.
• Provide general medical care to various and/or specific patient levels – adults and geriatric.
• Perform comprehensive evaluations including history and physical exams for risk adjustment and other regulatory assessments.
• Address both chronic and acute primary care complaints, and able to ascertain medical urgency.
• Establish and document reasonable medical diagnoses.
• Seek specialty consultation as appropriate.
• The NP is responsible for knowing when a patient needs physician oversight and when the patient's medical condition may be beyond the scope of knowledge of the NP.
• Work as a partner with a supervising physician. The NP is responsible for initiating collaboration, as it is needed.
• Engage in practices constituting the practice of medicine in collaboration with and under the medical direction and supervision of a licensed physician to the degree required by state laws. May also function as and perform all duties reasonably expected and assigned to an RN such medication administration.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in family health from accredited nursing program.
• Experience in chronic disease management and preventative care
• Completion of Nurse Practitioner program at the master’s level, with an active and unrestricted national certification from one of the following organizations: American Academy of Nurse -Practitioners; American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Current state-issued license to practice as a Family Nurse Practitioner
• Current Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional certification
• Current unrestricted driver’s license
  

Pay & Benefits:
Pay Range: $80,000 - $150,000 per year*

*Actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level.

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