Freeman Health System

NURSE PRACTITIONER - Primary Care

Job Profile Summary:

Nurse Practitioner (NP) provides comprehensive, patient-centered healthcare services including assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of acute and chronic medical conditions. Working within the scope of Arkansas law and the Arkansas State Board of Nursing regulations, the NP delivers high-quality, evidence -based care while collaborating with physicians and the interdisciplinary healthcare team to improve patient outcomes. The NP promotes health, prevents disease, educates patients and families, and coordinates care across the continuum. The APRN is authorized to provide health care services that include the diagnosis and initiation of treatment for acutely or chronically ill or injured persons.

Responsibilities:

  • Completes medical history and performs physical assessment accurately and efficiently.

  • Creates patient problem list at first patient encounter and updates as appropriate at follow-up visits.

  • Orders appropriate laboratory, radiologic and special examinations or tests according to clinical manifestations, preventative and/or health maintenance standards.

  • Interprets and evaluates clinical data to determine appropriate diagnosis and need for therapeutic procedures or treatment.

  • Consults with collaborative physician or designee to provide health care services for conditions other than acute self-limited or well-defined problems.

  • Makes appropriate specialty referrals for patient treatment outside of scope of practice.

  • Establishes a process of timely review and management of abnormal test results.

  • Establishes a plan of care/treatment and provides counseling and clear instructions to the patient based on jointly agreed-upon protocols that are specific to the clinical conditions treated by the collaborating physician and collaborating APRN.

  • Administers, dispenses, prescribes drugs and medications and/or medical supplies and controlled substances when applicable with licensure and prescriptive authority, and authorized by collaborating physician and consistent with both collaborating physician and own skill, training, education and competence and within the scope of practice of both.

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