Nurse Practitioner - Family Clinic - Contract

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Job description

Description:

Now hiring experienced Nurse Practitioners with Family Medical, Urgent Care, or Family Clinic, experience for Long Term, locum, Contract assignment. You can make a real difference at Warm Springs, Oregon Indian Health Service Clinic, in Warm Springs, Oregon. Come Join the professional team at Warm Springs Wellness Indian Health Clinic.

This is a Learn more about the clinic and area here:

• Local Candidates welcome to apply!
• Clinic hours M-F, 8am - 5pm, No Weekends No Holidays
• Long Term Contract/Locum position
• Previous IHS experience a plus
• Previous Locum Experience a plus
• Family NP or Internal Medicine NP needed
• 2+ years experience preferred
• Adults and Pediatrics

Job Duties

Providing Nurse Practitioner services five days per week in a family clinic setting. working to improve the overall health care status of the eligible American Indian, Alaska Native patient population served.

The Clinic operation hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and closed on Weekends and Federal Holidays.

• Working as part of a team treating all ages of patients
• Interview and examine patients, review past medical history and request and/ or perform diagnostic tests and examinations as necessary to make diagnosis for primary care services.
• Make diagnosis after evaluating information obtained and provide medical or surgical treatment and/ or referral as appropriate.
• Counsel and educate patients, families, community and medical staff about general health care.
• Prescribe drugs and tests necessary to provide including the use of radiology and laboratory
• Become familiar with and be guided by the Indian Health Service formulary and shall follow IHS procedures when prescribing drugs
• Authorized to prescribe pharmaceuticals shall do so according to the availability of drugs listed in the IHS formulary. IHS pharmacy services will provide instructions to the prescribing contract physician as to substitution of generic drugs for prescribed drugs. The service unit pharmacy must approve drugs not on the formulary
• Participate in a continual process of quality of health care evaluation to assure the provision of quality service.
• Strive for excellence in providing general family medicine medical services.
• Comply with all IHS facility infection control and safety procedures, practices, and standards
• Respect and maintain the basic right of patients, to include but not limited to personal dignity
• Referrals- all referrals shall be done utilizing the Patient Referred Care (PRC) process. The PRC Committee utilizing PRC guidelines will review these referrals.

Additional Duties:

Additional duties and responsibilities may be added to this job description at any time. The job description does not state or imply that these are the only activities to be performed by the employee holding this position. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related responsibilities as requested by their supervisor.

Indian Preference Exercised:

Prairie Band, LLC is subject to Title 22: Employment Code of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. In accordance with Title 22, this position is designated as a TIER 2 position. Preference will be given to individuals to the extent required pursuant to Section 22-2-4(B).

Requirements:

Please provide/upload the following documents along with your application

• Must be certified through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• Must possess a current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration from a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
• Must be Board Eligible or Certified
• DEA
• Must have current BLS, ACLS
• Certification of Education - copy of diploma or transcripts

We are looking forward to meeting you, please apply today!

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