Graduation from an accredited medical school and completion of residency training.
Current licensure as a Physician in good standing with the North Carolina Medical Board.
Current Drug Enforcement Administration licensure.
Current Basic Life Support certification.
Responsibilities
Practice outpatient medicine.
Provide medical care for each patient visit, including completing pertinent histories and physical examinations.
Document the chief complaint, history of present illness, pertinent review of systems, and physical examination in the electronic health record.
Review and update past medical history, family history, social history, medications, and allergies in the electronic health record.
Review vital signs and results or reports from prior orders.
Place new orders.
Perform and document procedures.
Administer medications and immunizations.
Determine and document the assessment and plan.
Prescribe medications.
Provide patient education, guidance, and counseling.
Arrange follow-up plans.
Sign electronic health record encounters within established policy and procedure timelines.
Respond to related patient questions or needs arising after an encounter.
Adhere to established scheduling templates when providing patient care.
Participate in quality metrics directives and departmental quality improvement projects.
Attend practitioners’ meetings, clinical site meetings, and practice-wide meetings regularly.
Read organizational emails and other communication platforms.
Complete peer review.
Comply with Clinical Quality Measures expectations.
Use resources to verify standards of care.
Modify workflows as directed by the department to attain quality improvement objectives.
Consistently document activities related to quality improvement projects.
Participate in the on-call patient care rotation.
Remain available for phone calls throughout on-call service dates.
Respond to on-call contacts within established policy and procedure timelines.
Document on-call patient care in the electronic health record.
Notify the patient’s primary care physician about on-call patient care.
Supervise Advanced Practice Practitioners.
Maintain a supervisory agreement with each Advanced Practice Practitioner under supervision.
Remain available to respond to clinical questions from Advanced Practice Practitioners.
Perform regular chart reviews of Advanced Practice Practitioners and provide feedback when indicated.
Participate in quality improvement meetings with supervisees in accordance with licensing board requirements.
Communicate scheduling changes, such as planned paid time off, with Advanced Practice Practitioners and backup supervising physicians to ensure continuous coverage.
Company Overview
Contentnea Health is a Community Health Center providing comprehensive medical, dental and behavioral health services for members of our communities in Greene, Pitt and Pamlico counties in eastern North Carolina.
Job Summary
Practices outpatient medicine.
Responsibilities and Duties
Practices medical care for each patient visit.
Completes pertinent history and physical exam.
Documents chief complaint, history of present illness, pertinent review of systems, and physical exam in electronic health record (“EHR”).
Reviews and updates past medical history, family history, social history, medications, and allergies in EHR.
Reviews vital signs.
Reviews results and reports from prior orders.
Places new orders.
Performs and documents procedures.
Administers medications and immunizations.
Determines and documents assessment and plan.
Prescribes medications.
Provides patient education, guidance, and counseling.
Arranges plan for follow-up.
Signs EHR encounter within timelines in established policies and procedures.
Responds to related patient questions or needs which arise following encounter.
Adheres to established scheduling templates in provision of patient care.
Participates in quality metrics directives and departmental quality improvement (QI) projects.
Attends practitioners’ meetings regularly.
Attends clinical site meetings regularly.
Attends practice-wide meetings regularly.
Reads emails and other platforms of communication within organization.
Completes peer review.
Complies with Clinical Quality Measures expectations.
Uses resources to verify standards of care.
Modifies workflows as determined by department to attain QI objectives.
Consistently documents activities related to QI projects.
Participates in on-call patient care rotation.
Maintains availability to receive phone calls throughout dates of on-call service.
Responds to on-call contact within timelines in established policies and procedures.
Documents on-call patient care in EHR.
Notifies patient’s primary care physician of on-call patient care.
Supervises Advanced Practice Practitioners (APPs).
Maintains supervisory agreement with each APP under supervision.
Maintains availability to respond to clinical questions raised by APP.
Performs regular chart review of APP and provides feedback when indicated.
Participates in Quality Improvement (QI) meetings with supervisees consistent with licensing board requirements for APP.
Communicates scheduling changes, such as planned PTO, with APP and Back-Up Supervising Physicians in order to ensure APPs will have coverage at all times.
Qualifications and Skills
Graduate of an accredited school of Medicine and completion of Residency training.
Current licensure as a Physician in good standing with the North Carolina Medical Board.