Family Medicine - NP Other job located in California
Job Description
Distinctive Home & Health Care is a leading provider of healthcare to serve military installations across the United States. Our team of professionals is dedicated to providing the highest quality of service and support for each one of our clients. Distinctive Healthcare is currently seeking to hire a Full time Nurse Pratitioner to work at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego, California.
Qualifications:
- Degree: Master's degree in nursing.
- Education: Graduate from an academic program, within the nursing specialty field of study that is
- accredited by a regional or national nursing accrediting agency recognized by the Accreditation
- Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
- Certification: Certified in the specialty required (psychiatry)
- Experience: As required to meet clinical competency requirements specified in the Service-specific
- credentialing instructions.
- Licensure: Current, full, active, and unrestricted license as a Registered Nurse.
- Must have 1 year family medicine experience or 1 year of urgent care experience.
Duties (including, but not limited to):
• Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services for the inmate population.
• Conduct medical histories, examine patients, and order and interpret laboratory tests, x-ray and
other diagnostic testing.
• Diagnosis and treat patients in an efficient, timely, and professional manner, provide treatment plans
and prescribe medications utilizing the Bureau of Prisons formulary.
• Clinically manage injuries by suturing, splinting, and immobilizing
• Attend to medical emergencies.
• Record progress notes, recommend clinically necessary outside consultation, instruct and counsel, and
order or carry out therapy.
• Emergency consultation to be performed by the contractor in instances where deemed necessary.
Perform minor surgery utilizing local anesthesia during consultation visits.
• Work collaboratively with the staff physician(s) and consulting physician(s) in planning, instituting,
evaluating, and revising program plans.
• Assists in determining conditions, resources, and policies essential to delivery of the health care
services.
• Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings to recognize early stages of serious physical,
emotional, or mental problems.
• Manages the daily operation of the clinic and conducts daily sick call; which may include securing
health histories from the patient, recording findings and providing clinical evaluations
• Provides a wide range of emergency services, in the absence of the physician
