Family Nurse Practitioner - AVALA Care - Full-Time - RO49

Family Nurse Practitioner

The Family Nurse Practitioner is responsible for caring for patients, maintaining accurate and current patient records and scheduling as well as administering follow-up appointments to patients as required. They work as a team with our nurses/medical assistants and physicians in delivering premium care to patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive patient assessments including medical histories and physical examinations
• Diagnoses and manage acute and chronic health conditions
• Develop and implement individualized treatment plans in collaboration with supervising physicians
• Order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests and laboratory results
• Prescribe medications and therapies in accordance with state regulations
• Educate patients on disease prevention, treatment plans, and medication management
• Document all patient encounters accurately in the electronic health record (EHR)
• Coordinate care with physicians, specialists, and other healthcare professionals
• Monitor patient progress and modify treatment plans as necessary
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, infection control, and organizational policies
• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and continuing education
• Perform other duties as assigned by leadership

The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job related tasks other than those stated in this description.

Qualifications

• Ability to work within a team and take direction
• Must be familiar with the EHR medical charting system
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to demonstrate reliability and responsiveness
• Demonstrates sound judgment in respecting the confidentiality of patient and employee information
• Seeks guidance and direction in the performance of responsibilities and duties
• Promotes and demonstrates exceptional customer service skills
• Share and receive information, concerns and feedback in a supportive manner
• Educated on and compliant with HIPAA regulations; maintains strict confidentiality of client information
• Complies with Infection Control, Standard Precautions and OSHA standards for the healthcare professional
• Ability to work effectively within role independently and with other team members
• Ability to organize and complete work in a timely manner

Core Competencies

Action Orientation - Targets and achieves results, overcomes obstacles, accepts responsibility, establishes standards and responsibilities, creates a results-oriented environment, and follows through on actions.

Communications - Communicates well both verbally and in writing. Effectively conveys and shares information and ideas with others. Listens carefully and understands various viewpoints. Presents ideas clearly and concisely and understands relevant detail in presented information.

Creativity/Innovation - Generates novel ideas and develops or improves existing and new systems that challenge the status quo, takes risks, and encourages innovation.

Critical Judgment - Possesses the ability to define issues and focus on achieving workable solutions. Consistently does the right thing by performing with reliability.

Customer Orientated - Listens to customers, builds customer confidence, increases customer satisfaction, ensures commitments are met, sets appropriate customer expectations, and responds to customer needs.

Interpersonal Skills - Effectively and productively engages with others and establishes trust, credibility, and confidence with others.

Leadership - Motivates, empowers, inspires, collaborates with, and encourages others. Builds consensus when appropriate. Focuses team members on common goals.

Teamwork - Knows when and how to attract, develop, reward, and utilize teams to optimize results. Acts to build trust, inspire enthusiasm, encourage others, and help resolve conflicts and develop consensus in creating high-performance teams.

Professional/Regulatory Requirements

• 3 years of Family Nurse Practitioner experience preferred
• Master's or Doctoral degree in Nursing from an accredited program
• Current certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C or FNP-BC)
• Active and unrestricted Louisiana APRN license
• Prescriptive authority and DEA registration
• Current BLS certification (ACLS preferred)

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Basic computer knowledge.

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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires repetitive motions, standing, walking, bending, kneeling and stooping all day. The employee must frequently lift or move items weighing up to 100 pounds.