WOMENS HEALTH NURSE PRACTITIONER

Position Summary

Performs professional duties as a Womens Health Nurse Practitioner in a community health center setting. Duties include actual hands on medical care under the supervision of a physician. Primary activities encompass health promotion, health maintenance, and disease prevention, management of minor acute illness and chronic health conditions for all life cycles.

Essential Functions

• Obtain histories and perform physical examinations.
• Assures continuity of care by providing comprehensive medical services.
• Determine diagnosis and implement a treatment plan.
• Request and review results of x-rays, laboratory tests and other diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
• Patient counseling and education as required.
• Participate in peer review, quality improvement, risk management and other committee activities as required.
• Participate in the developmental and periodic review of patient care protocols.
• Attends and participates in staff meetings.
• Demonstrates a willingness to participate and follow through with special projects and committees.

Non-essential Functions

• If bilingual, translates in Spanish between non-Spanish speaking staff and Spanish speaking patients as requested.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

• Graduation from an accredited Womens Health Nurse Practitioner (NP) Program
• Unrestricted license to practice as a NP. National accreditation preferred.
• ACLS certification preferred.
• Comprehensive knowledge of medical diagnoses, procedures and accepted treatment patterns and primary medical care in out-patient setting.
• Adequate assessment skills and knowledge of basic community health and medical care principles, practices, and processes.
• Knowledge of the principles and practice of modern medicine.
• Must be able to treat patients from a diversity of social and ethnic backgrounds and to work creatively as a member of a health oriented team composed of health care professionals from a variety of disciplines.

Physical Requirements

Required to sit, stand, walk and move about throughout the day; manual dexterity to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with arms and hands; occasionally climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel or crouch occasionally; talk and hear; vision abilities required include close vision, distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Working Conditions

For the most part, ambient room temperatures, lighting and a traditional office environment exists. May experience traumatic situations including psychiatric and medical crisis situations within the environment; some exposure to hazardous materials or physical risks requiring basic safety precautions; exposure to blood borne pathogens requiring PPE. Frequent exposure to communicable disease, body fluids, toxic substances, medicinal preparations, radiation and other conditions common to a clinical environment may routinely be encountered .

Each employee makes a significant contribution to the quality care of patients and to the success of El Centro de Corazón. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this position description is designed to outline primary duties, qualifications and job scope, but not limit the employee to just the work identified. The expectation is that as a member of the El Centro team, each employee will offer his /her services wherever and whenever necessary.