Nurse Practitioner

About this job

NEEDED: Nurse Practitioner

LOCATION: Atlanta, GA 30317

SCHEDULE: 8 hours per day, 5 days per week (excluding federal holidays), between 6:00 AM - 6:00 PM, Sunday - Saturday, not to exceed 40 hours per week.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be certified to practice medicine in any state in the United States or territory.
• Must be Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) certified, in accordance with the American Heart Association Basic Life Support.
• Must have at least three or more years of experience.
• Must provide evidentiary documentation (education, current licensor/, and current CME)
• Must be able to pass a background check, drug screening, and credit check (collections).

JOB DUTIES:

• Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services
• Take medical histories, examine patients, order and interpret laboratory tests and x-rays
• Make a diagnosis, provide treatment plans and prescribe medications
• Clinically manage injuries by suturing, splinting, and immobilizing
• Attend to medical emergencies
• Record progress notes, recommend clinically necessary outside consultation, instruct and counsel, and order or carry out therapy
• Emergency consultation to be performed by the contractor in instances where deemed necessary. Perform minor surgery utilizing local anesthesia during consultation visits
• Work collaboratively with the staff physician(s) and consulting physician(s) in planning, instituting, evaluating and revising program plans
• Assist in determining conditions, resources and policies essential to delivery of the health care services
• Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings to recognize early stages of serious physical, emotional, or mental problems
• Manages the daily operation of the clinic and conducts daily sick calls; which may include securing health histories from the patient, recording findings and providing clinical evaluations
• Provides a wide range of emergency services, in the absence of the physician