Full-Time
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Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas
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Carl Junction, MO, USA
In Person
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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Requirements
- Full licensure to practice medicine in the State of Kansas or Oklahoma, depending on assigned work location.
- Graduate of an accredited advanced nurse practitioner program.
- Prescriptive authority recognition required.
- If assigned to a Walk In Care facility, must obtain DOT Certification within 30 days of hire and recertify every 10 years.
- Social and cultural sensitivity appropriate to ethnically and economically diverse patient-and employee-base.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the rationale of appropriate patient care.
- Communicates through appropriate channels. Use proper chain of command for patient complaints.
- Ability to handle emergency situations calmly and effectively.
- Must be computer literate and able to navigate the Electronic Health Record.
- Must be able to maintain good inter-personal relationship with co-workers and other members of the health care team and the organization.
- Provide customer service in accordance to the organization’s mission.
- Be courteous and respectful when interacting with patients and family members.
- Maintain patient confidentiality in accordance to organization’s policy and procedure and HIPAA requirements.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
Responsibilities
- Develops and manages the medical plan of care for patients based upon an agreement developed jointly and signed by the mid-level and supervising physicians.
- Provides complete, comprehensive outpatient care for patients including health examinations and treatment of medical conditions, to include follow-up of problems detected.
- Responsible to manage acute and chronic illness, routine care through care plans that are coordinated, when appropriate, with the patient's behavioral health provider.
- Responsible to make appropriate referrals to internal disciplines of CHC/SEK and/or external resources/agencies for additional services required.
- Prescribes medications for patients for treatment of conditions, as indicated.
- Provides clinical consultation to other providers within CHC/SEK as needed.
- Responsible for accurate, timely, and clear medical record documentation.
- Observes clinic protocols and guidelines and scope of practice as determined by professional regulatory agencies.
- Provide appropriate follow-up with clinical support staff to include telephone/written correspondence (e.g. inform patients of test results).
- Provides clear written and oral communication to patients/guardians, and employees.
- Participates in an on-call system for after-hours care for CHC/SEK inpatient population, as assigned.
- Participates in quality improvement activities.
- Ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of a potential action.
- Supervises healthcare students as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
- A strong community/public health orientation, preferred.
- Completion of one-year experience in clinic setting, preferred.