Primary Care Nurse Practitioner

Advanced Practice Nurse

If you are looking to make an impact on a meaningful scale, come join us as we embrace the Power of One! We strive to be an employer of choice and establish a reputation for being a talent rich organization where Associates can grow their career caring for others. For over a century, we've served the health care needs of the people of Memphis and the Mid-South.

Functions as an Advanced Practice Nurse collaboratively with physician sponsor/s providing leadership of the clinical care team and acts as a change agent for a specific patient population by incorporating the role of clinical expert, role model, consultant, educator, practitioner, researcher, and nurse leader. Provides clinical expertise to individual patients/families and/or groups of patients/families by providing direct and indirect patient care. Collaborates with the health care team in assessing, designing, implementing, and evaluating population-based programs of patient care to enhance high quality-cost effective patient outcomes. Models appropriate behavior as exemplified in MLH Mission, Vision and Values.

Working at MLH means carrying the mission forward of caring for our community and impacting the lives of patients in every way through compassion, a deliberate focus on service expectations and a consistent thriving for excellence.

What you will do

• Clinical Practice Expert: Provides advanced level of direct and indirect care to individual patients/families and/or groups of patients/families in collaboration with physicians and interdisciplinary team members.
• Education/Clinical Staff Development: Provides leadership and collaborates with other health professionals and educational resources to establish staff education programs to address the specific needs of populations of patients.
• Evidence-Based Consultant & Researcher: Demonstrates collaborative leadership with researchers, other health professionals, divisions, and departments to generate knowledge and make practice changes based on research findings, as well as, the results of the organizational and departmental quality improvement processes.
• Clinical Leadership: Provides leadership in meeting system, organizational, division, and departmental goals.
• Demonstrates accountability for professional responsibilities and self-development.

Education/Formal Training Requirements

• Required - Master's Degree Advanced Practice Nursing
• Required - Master's Degree Nursing

Work Experience Requirements

• Required - General nursing of clinical practice at the RN level 3-5 years

Licenses and Certifications Requirements

• Required - Advanced Practice Nurse Tennessee - Tennessee Board of Nursing
• Required - Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Required - BASIC LIFE SUPPORT - American Heart Association
• Required - Registered Nurse Tennessee - Tennessee Board of Nursing
• Preferred - Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner - American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• Preferred - Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Preferred - Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Preferred - School Nurse Practitioner - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Preferred - Registered Nurse Arkansas - Arkansas State Board of Nursing
• Preferred - Emergency Nurse Practitioner - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Preferred - Advanced Practice Nurse Mississippi - Mississippi Board of Nursing
• Preferred - Family Nurse Practitioner - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Preferred - Acute Care Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner - Pediatric Nursing Certification Board
• Preferred - Neonatal Nurse Practitioner - National Certification Corporation
• Preferred - Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
• Preferred - Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• Preferred - Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Preferred - Adult Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Preferred - Registered Nurse Mississippi - Mississippi Board of Nursing
• Preferred - Family Nurse Practitioner - American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• Preferred - Women's Health Care Nurse Practitioner - National Certification Corporation
• Preferred - Gerontological Nurse Practitioner - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Preferred - Adult Nurse Practitioner - American Nurses Credentialing Center
• Preferred - Emergency Nurse Practitioner - American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficiency in applying advanced concepts, principles, and professional techniques in a specialized field of nursing. Such proficiency is acquired through completion of a master's degree or higher in a nursing specialty and is demonstrated through national specialty certification as a nurse practitioner.

Supervision Provided by this Position

• There are no supervisory or lead responsibilities assigned to this position.

Physical Demands

• Frequent invasive and non-invasive patient contact.
• Exposure to patient body fluids as well as exposure to hazardous or poisonous materials.
• Exposure to excessive heat or cold as required.
• Ability to react quickly to emergency situations.
• May require handling or administering of narcotics.
• Ability to read and write to communicate orally and in writing with other individuals.
• Ability to lift and carry up to 50 lbs. without assistance and push and pull up to 250 lbs.
• Ability to sit in one place, stand, walk, squat, kneel, reach, twist, crawl, and bend.
• Ability to perform repetitive hand and wrist motion, as well as using hands for gripping and squeezing.
• Ability to use hands and feet together for repetitive coordinated motions.
• Good hand-eye coordination.

Our Associates are passionate about what they do, the service they provide and the patients they serve. We value family, team and a Power of One culture that requires commitment to the highest standards of care and unity.

Boasting one of the South's largest medical centers, Memphis blends a friendly community, a thriving and growing downtown, and a low cost of living. We see each day as a new opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the people in our community.