Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant - Urgent Care - Blount PRN

Prisma Health Maryville, TN Fulltime

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Summary

Provides primary health care, diagnosis and treatment, charting and billing paperwork, and participates in quality assurance, utilization management, and patient education. Variable shift; requires a master's in nursing, South Carolina NP recognition, prescriptive authority, SC nursing, controlled substance, and DEA licenses.

Highlights

Schedule
Variable
Education
Master's degree in Nursing; Nurse Practitioner emphasis or equivalent program certificate
License Required
South Carolina NP recognition, prescriptive authority, SC nursing license, SC controlled substance license, Federal DEA license
Department
Care Today Clinic-Practice Operations
Reports To
Supervisor, manager, director, or executive

Job description

Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.

Job Summary
Provides primary health care to a specific patient population within the guidelines of written protocols. Follows established nursing standards, procedures, and practices.

Accountabilities
  • Engages in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, defects or injuries and recommend or prescribe treatments for the relief or cure of physical, mental or functional ailments or defects.
  • Performs all charting, summaries, correspondence and assorted paperwork that is required for purposes of documenting care and billing.
  • Participates in physician educational programs provided by Employer relative to capitated medicine and its implications on physician practice patterns.
  • Participates in responding to requests for proposals for managed care contracts.
  • Participates in:

    Establishment of quality assurance programs

    Establishment of utilization management programs

    Selection of management information systems

    Development of patient education services
    Development of patient satisfaction surveys
  • Assists in the development of operational and capital budgets.
  • Participates in operational assessments in search of revenue enhancement, expense reductions, consolidation efficiencies and billing opportunities.
  • General Job Expectations:

    Maintain courteous and cooperative working relationships with all levels of management and employees, physicians, patients, guarantors and the general public.
  • Participates in activities that would further the public's image of the Employer.


Supervisory/Management Responsibility

This is a non-management job that will report to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive.

Minimum Requirements

Master's Degree in Nursing; Nurse Practitioner Degree Emphasis or Program Certificate equivalent.

Required Certifications/Registrations/Licenses
  • South Carolina Official Recognition Nurse Practitioner - NLNP
  • Prescriptive Authority South Carolina Nursing License
  • South Carolina Controlled Substance license; Federal DEA license


Work Shift
Variable (United States of America)

Location
Blount Memorial Hospital

Facility
8100 BMPG Joule Street Alcoa

Department
81001000 Care Today Clinic-Practice Operations

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