Nurse Practitioner – Ortho/Pain Management Office
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Position Summary
Primary responsibility would be to perform nursing home visits for the practice and see patients in our private practice office with our Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Pain Management physicians.
Location:?Union, NJ office
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8-5
Open to a candidate seeking a PT 3 or 4 day schedule as well?
Pay: starting $50/hr +
Very open to new grads!
Credentialing:
- Process takes roughly 4 weeks for this role
Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
- Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program
- Current Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Licensure
- ?Current Nurse Practitioner certification in specialty area
- Current provider card in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS); PALS provider card as required by department and facility
- Strong computer skills, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Eligible for hospital privileges
- Must have DEA
- will be refilling pain medications?
Experience
- 2 years? experience in the Nurse Practitioner role preferred.
- Experience in the fields of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Pain Management, and Orthopedics preferred.
- Open to NPs with prior Neuro or Psych experience as well
- Open to recent grads without experience
- Any EMR experience is preferred
- Practice utilizes ModMed and will train (very user friendly)
Essential Responsibilities
- Works under 2 Providers
- Administers and refills pain medications
- Post-op follow ups with patients
- Administers injections to chronic pain patients?
- Functions independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for complex acute, critical, and chronically ill perioperative patients and nursing home patients.
- Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient?s age-specific needs.
- Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities
- Implements interventions to support the patient to regain or maintain physiologic stability, including but not limited to serving in the first assisting role.
- Monitors the effectiveness of interventions.
- Facilitates the patient?s transition within and between health care settings, ex. admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
- Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals.
- Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing educational tools.
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