Advance Practice RN-Urgent Care

King's Daughters

Ashland, KY
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  • JOB SUMMARY
    • An exempt position responsible for practicing medicine with physician collaboration including conducting
    • examinations and writing prescriptions. Within the collaborating physician-APRN relationship, APRNs exercise
    • autonomy in medical decision making and provide a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services. May include
    • responsibility for education, research, and administrative services; APRNs may be required to float between
    • departments depended upon patient volumes.
  • DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
    • Overall performance rating of below indicated essential job duties:
    • Assesses patient status by obtaining health history through patient/family interviews and chart reviews; assessing
    • presenting illness, risk factors, and family history, psychosocial situation, and cultural factors; and performing
    • appropriate physical examination.
    • Orders/performs appropriate laboratory diagnostic and other screening and therapeutic tests. Seeks other
    • information as needed, including consultation with physicians and other clinicians, for evaluation of illness. Integrates
    • data to determine diagnosis and therapeutic plan, including identification of any health risks; develops and
    • implements treatment plan by prescribing/dispensing medications and/or injections in compliance with medical
    • practice guidelines and state laws.
    • Instructs patient/family regarding medications and treatments, educates patients regarding health promotion/illness
    • prevention, recommends appropriate community resources to meet patient/family needs. Communicates appropriate
    • case management information to other professionals and community agencies, prepares documentation for medical
    • records including updating patient medical chart by posting examination and test results, diagnosis, medications,
    • and treatment in written/computerized manner.
    • Participates in peer reviews, chart reviews, staff education, clinical guideline development, and other continuing
    • education and quality assurance activities to demonstrate compliance with standards, regulations, policies, and
    • procedures; acts as consultant/collaborator to clinical team on area of specialty, complies with patient confidentiality
    • requirements, promotes patient advocacy, collaborates with physicians in managing acute and long-term medical
  • EDUCATION/LICENSE/CERTIFICATION/OTHER REQUIREMENTS
    • Minimum requirement:
      • MSN, successful completion of advanced practitioner training and certification as a practitioner (general or
      • specialized) from an approved nurse practitioner program.
      • Minimum three years of professional nursing experience in a clinic setting.
      • Maintains active RN license in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and/or State of Ohio as required.
      • Achieves and maintains American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)
    • Preferred qualifications:
      • Two years of nurse practitioner experience
  • WORKING ENVIRONMENT
    • Constantly works near moving mechanical parts
    • Constantly exposed to blood and/or body fluids and infection.
    • Occasionally exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals
    • Occasionally exposed to risk of radiation
    • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
  • PHYSICAL DEMANDS
    • Occasionally required to maintain in a stationary position (standing or sitting).
    • Frequently required to walk and move about.
    • Frequently required to operate a computer and other equipment.
    • Frequently required to use fine motor skills to handle and operate instruments/devices.
    • Constantly required to lift and/or move items up to 10 pounds.
    • Frequently required to lift and/or move items up to 50 pounds.
    • Occasionally required to lift and/or move items up to 100 pounds.
    • Constantly required to communicate with patients and other care team requiring talking and hearing.
    • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
    • Occasionally required to position self in order to meet patient needs.
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