Description *FLSA Status – non exempt *EEO Category – Professional Our Mission: To improve lives by providing convenient, comprehensive, high-quality healthcare to every person in every community that we serve. Our Vision: CCHN will maintain its position as the leading community health center in the state and become a model for all other healthcare organizations to follow. MAJOR FUNCTION: Provides nursing care within the scope of a NJ licensed Nurse Practitioner • Assess the bio/psycho/social/spiritual health status of individual clients and families through history taking, data collection, and physical exam • Assists staff nurses to facilitate care for walk-in patients • Completes accurate documentation according to site specific standards • Works in collaboration with staff, physicians, allied health professionals, and others to implement the patients plan of care Provides pharmacological care within the scope of a NJ Certified Nurse Practitioner • Participates in annual update of joint practice protocols as per NJ Board of Nursing guidelines • Prescribes or make judgments regarding pharmacologic agents and therapeutic devices • Dispenses/Administers/Prescribes medications according to policy & protocol Provides nurse practitioner care within the scope of a NJ Certified Nurse Practitioner • Recognizes and manages deviations from health • Recognizes patients whose problem is out of scope of practice and obtain appropriate care • Orders appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered • Follows up on laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered • Communicates with patient to arrive at mutually agreed upon plan of care to include actual and potential health problems, both medical and nursing in nature • Evaluation and revision of patient plan of care is ongoing Provides health education • Informs, teaches and guides clients/families to assume responsibility for management of their own health • Individualizes education to facilitate patient independence and optimize patient self care • Educates patients on pharmacological agents, therapeutic devices, laboratory or diagnostic testing • Promotes health education for groups of patients, families, staff, agencies, communities, and organizations pertinent to area of specialty as appropriate to program Provides referral and case management • Refers patients to internal resources according to program standards, protocol, or physician consultation • Refers patients for specialty care as per program standards, protocol, or physician consultation • Refers patients to primary care as appropriate • Follows up on referrals according to site specific standards • Case manages client care according to program standards and patients plan of care Requirements QUALIFICATIONS: • Unrestricted license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant from the State Board in New Jersey and official recognition from the same State Board to practice as a Nurse Practitioner • Employee shall maintain registration including prescriptive authorization with the New Jersey Board of medical Examiners, • Maintain Board Certification • Maintain Active CPR • Ability to stand, swift waling, lifting, moving patients as needed The above job description is not to be construed as a complete listing of the assignments that may be given to any employee, nor are such assignments restricted to those precisely listed in the description.