Job description

Qualifications

• Current patient population served: 18 years +
• Applicants must have a current license to practice in Texas
• Certified Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Full Job Description

General Overview

ADIRA HEALTH is seeking a PRN Nurse Practitioner to join our team supporting our primary care clinic in McAllen, TX.

Adira’s mission is to revolutionize primary care by focusing on prevention and wellness and become the gold standard in service and quality. Adira strives in its values of compassion, service excellence and treating every patient like family. Every provider will be engaged and committed to improving the patient’s health and their lifestyle, while holding our patients accountable for their health where provider and patient can work as a team for better health.

Position Summary: The Nurse Practitioner-Physician Assistant is directly responsible for care of patients. Duties include performing initial clinical evaluations as well as directed procedures for urgent care, occupational health, and workers' compensation procedures. The Nurse Practitioner-Physician Assistant will also follow up on laboratory analysis and radiology studies. The job description below is not all inclusive, and will perform other job duties assigned by supervising physician.

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Maintains customer loyalty score at or above company benchmark.

2. Participate in weekly meetings with management and office staff.

3. Consistently communicates with patients on wait times and/or delays; provide direction to the next step in the treatment process

4. Provides solutions to patient problems and recognizes and seeks help in emergent/hazardous situations.

5. Provide timely follow-up regarding lab and x-ray results.

6. See patients in different clinics in the Laredo area along with telemedicine

7. Practice in collaboration with our Contracted and Affiliated physicians, their advance practice clinicians, and their clinic staff.

8. Collaborate to provide a comprehensive, coordinated model of care to a mostly Medicare-aged population on a Medicare Advantage Plan.

9. Educate providers on proper coding, risk adjustment metrics, capturing documentation, and adhering to quality protocols.

10. Interview patients to ensure proper documentation and to ensure all preventative screenings have been complete.

11. Performance will be tracked and comparatively reported using metrics related to the strategic direction and operational needs of the organization.

12. Provides direct care, within their scope of practice, to adult patients to include urgent care.

13. Consults with the Supervising Physician, Physician, or Pediatric Advisor for complex medical, pediatric, or psychiatric patients, completes orders recommended/authorized by the physician.

14. Performs history and physical assessment, behavioral health care, minor outpatient procedures, patient education, and refers any care beyond the scope of the medical unit to local medical facilities emergency departments or urgent care centers.

15. Ability to apply professional principles, procedures, and techniques for Nurse Practitioners in patient care.

16. Knowledge of drugs and therapeutics when prescribing and dispensing medication.

17. Obtains and accurately documents patient medical record and treatment.

18. Ability to assist medical assistants if needed with administration of medications; Laboratory duties-Perform CLIA-waived lab test, draw blood and collect and label specimens for any send out labs; Perform DOT and Non-DOT urine drug screens and Breath Alcohol Testing (BAT); Perform DOT physical exams.

19. Ensures that equipment is in proper working order and reports any malfunction to the center manager or designee on duty.

20. Follows documentation procedures and completes required paperwork related to patient visit.

21. Adheres to infection control/safety guidelines and patient confidentiality policies.

22. Act in supervisory role while on duty ensuring policies and procedures are followed, logbooks are maintained, examination rooms are stocked, and other duties as assigned.

23. Act with honesty and integrity in all business transactions, including, but not limited to, employment applications/resumes, patient records, time records, and financial transactions.

Pay: $68.00 - $72.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Malpractice insurance
• Paid time off

Medical specialties:

• Geriatrics
• Primary Care

Weekly schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Work setting:

• Clinic
• In-person

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Mcallen, TX 78504: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

License/Certification:

• Certified Nurse Practitioner (Required)

Work Location: In person

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