Nurse Practitioner - Family

Nurse Practitioner

A trip through Northern Arizona is a visual delight, a bucket-list dream and an Instagram overload it means bragging rights to America's best scenery. Northern Arizona is a year-round destination point where you can find fall color, mild winters with the occasional dusting of snow, spring wildflowers, and sunny summer days. Enjoy the cool waters of the Colorado River and Lake Powell and take in the epic scenery of the sculptural slot canyons. Not to mention, one of the seven wonders of the natural world the Grand Canyon. Yes, the chasm carved by the Colorado River and a geological sight to behold, most of it being protected within the Grand Canyon National Park.

At the Northern Arizona VA Health Care System, their team provides health care services to Veterans throughout all of northern Arizona, spanning 65,000 square miles. Now providing Medical Mobile Services that travel to remote areas, the NAVHCS is now capable of bringing primary care, mental health, and specialty services to Veterans otherwise met with difficulties traveling to the larger VAMC facilities in several areas, including the Chinle VA Clinic, Kayenta VA Clinic, Page VA Clinic, Polacca/Hopi Clinic, and Tuba City VA Clinic.

Responsibilities

• The Nurse Practitioner will provide a full range of outcome-based nurse practitioner services (e.g. supervise general screening and medical care and examinations of patients for routine, acute, and chronic conditions involving all organ systems; provide immunizations; diagnose, treat, and counsel patients as indicated).
• Promote preventive care and health maintenance including annual physicals, positive health behaviors, and self-care through both formal and individual education and counseling.
• The NP Will be responsible and accountable for the assessment, diagnosis, and management of patient problems, including the prescription of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions.
• The scope of practice of a nurse practitioner includes, but is not limited to, each of the following:
• Ordering diagnostic and therapeutic tests and procedures, performing those tests and procedures when using health care equipment, and interpreting and using the results of diagnostic and therapeutic tests and procedures ordered by the advanced practice registered nurse or another health care professional.
• Ordering treatments, ordering, or applying appropriate medical devices, and using nursing, medical, therapeutic, and corrective measures to treat illness and improve health status.
• Providing advanced counseling, patient education, health education, and patient advocacy.

Requirements

• Must have a Master's degree or Doctorate in nursing.
• Must have a current and unrestricted license in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia.
• Must have a current Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification by the American Heart Association.
• Must have a minimum of one year of experience in the clinical areas of primary care.

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