Locum: NP Family Practice:MISSOURI - $65
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Job Description
Last updated: 4/11/25
Shift: M-F, 9am to 5pm (8-10 hour shifts, 4-5 days per week, totaling 40 hours per week)
Description:
- Start Date: ASAP
- End Date: 09/30/2025
- Patient Setting: Outpatient and inpatient as needed.
- Overtime: Provided
- Patients per shift: 21 patients per day for an 8-hour shift and 27 patients per day for a 10-hour shift
- Additional benefits: Sign on bonus: $10,000 along with malpractice insurance with tail. Lodging and travel: As per the facility's approval.
- Minimum of 2 years full-time experience as a hands-on Nurse Practitioner in the last 3 years.
- Provide Nurse Practitioner services to authorized beneficiaries per AR 40-3 and AR 40-50.
- Perform standard duties normal to the scope of a Nurse Practitioner at the MTF.
- Provide care for outpatients and inpatients, as well as inpatient admitting responsibilities.
- Perform chart reviews, attend medical staff meetings, and communicate via internal email.
- Treat an average of 21-27 patients per day.
- Provide initial emergency medical care in life-threatening situations.
- Manage health care needs through consultation or referral to specialty physicians.
- Diagnose illnesses, prescribe treatments and medicine, perform minor surgery.
- Perform inpatient rounds, medical surveillance physicals, request lab tests/x-rays, manage patient records.
- Ensure universal precautions in patient encounters, attend staff meetings.
- Manage cardiopulmonary arrests, interpret ECGs and radiographs, and perform procedures such as intubations, endotracheal emergency procedures, suturing, and more.
- Provide family practice services covering various systems (CV, respiratory, reproductive, etc.).
- Promote preventive care and health maintenance; engage in patient/family education and counseling.
Requirements:
- Master's Degree in Nursing from an accredited program recognized by ACEN or CCNE.
- BLS
- ACLS
- PALS
- NRP from AHA
- Certification as a Nurse Practitioner by ANCC or AANP.
- Current unrestricted license to practice in any U.S. state, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- Current, valid, unrestricted DEA certificate.
- Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) number as required.
- U.S. Citizenship or meets AR 25-2 requirements.
- No felony
- Knowledge of HIPAA, AAAHC, and TJC standards.
- Compliance with CME requirements.
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