Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care - Sappington, Mo - Full Time

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MO-SSM Health Medical Group Sappington

Regular

Job Highlights:

SSM Health is a Catholic not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. Headquartered in St. Louis, SSM Health has care delivery sites in Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. The health system includes 24 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient care sites, 10 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, an insurance company, a technology company and an Accountable Care Organization.

With more than 10,000 providers and 40,000 employees in four states, SSM Health is one of the largest employers in every community it serves. An early adopter of the electronic health record (EHR), SSM Health is a national leader for the depth of its EHR integration.

SSM Medical Group is a member of SSM Health Care—St. Louis and includes almost 400 primary and specialty care physicians in 65 locations, including 6 urgent care clinics and 5 Express Clinics. Our clinics are located in north, south and mid St. Louis County; in St. Charles County; in Warrenton and Troy, Missouri; and in Belleville and Maryville, Illinois.

At SSM, we take pride in the physician leadership of our Medical Group. Our physicians have a voice in their own practice operations, as well as the overall direction of the organization. Our SSM physician leadership allows physicians to manage the care of their own patients and provide appropriate treatment to meet each patient’s unique needs.

All SSM Health Medical Group primary care practices are nationally recognized as NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Homes and provide exceptional care through evidence-based protocols, while coordinating and managing patient care across the continuum.

Job Summary:

In collaboration with physician colleagues, demonstrates and provides professional nursing care to patients requiring an advanced level of knowledge and management of their nursing care in both inpatient and ambulatory settings.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Recognizes and utilizes opportunities to act as a change agent by introducing nursing practice innovations.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Maintains effective methods of formal and informal communication with staff so that dissemination of information/administrative decisions are conveyed in a positive and supportive manner; motivates and supports staff to achieve department/contractual goals and operational benchmarks.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals. Facilitates referral of patients to other appropriate community healthcare facilities, agencies and resources.
• Monitors the effectiveness of interventions.
• Facilitates the patient’s transition within and between health care settings, e.g. admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
• Assesses patient of any age presenting for health care and obtains a personal medical history, appropriate physical examination with recording of the resulting information.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Evaluates nursing practices associated with specialty area, defines needs/problems with patient care and makes constructive suggestions that creates a positive patient outcome.
• Problem solving skills demonstrated by making competent advanced clinical decisions, utilizing appropriate resources, consulting with physician, as appropriate, and involving management where necessary.
• Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing educational tools.
• Addresses and responds to patient and staff requests for information in a timely manner, prioritizing patient requests and urgent needs.
• Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient’s age-specific needs.
• Plans for patient care by making comprehensive clinical decisions based on advanced diagnostic skills and professional judgment, reviewing results of diagnostic tests and procedures, developing and implementing a treatment plan for the patient and/or family, and providing a wide range of interventions required to effect change.
• Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities.
• Promotes positive health behaviors and self-care skills through education and/or counseling.

EDUCATION

• Current or compact RN license in appropriate state
• Completion of a formal post-basic education program from or formally affiliated with an accredited college, university or hospital (Before July 1, 1998) or a graduate degree from an accredited college or university (After July 1, 1998) with a concentration in the appropriate advanced practice nursing clinical specialty area.
• Board certification by a national recognized certifying board in the appropriate population focus
• Appropriate APRN license or document of recognition in appropriate state

EXPERIENCE

• One year nursing experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
• Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
• Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Occasional driving.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Rare crawling and running.
• Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Constant standing and walking.

Licenses / Certifications:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - State of Work Location - State of Work Location, COHN Certified Occupational Health Nurse - American Board for Occupational Health Nurses (ABOHN) - American Board for Occupational Health Nurses (ABOHN)

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Employee

7007000125 Ronnies FM

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