Nurse Practitioner - Part-Time

Nurse Practitioner - Part-Time

Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc.

Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier.

• Referral program
• 401(k) with employer match
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Professional Development
• Paid Time Off
• Disability Insurance

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Perform problem-focused, individualized medical assessments.
• Be physically on-site at assigned correctional facility(s) on a regular basis.
• Document dates and times of provided site coverage by logging hours into the online payroll system.
• Provide 24/7 on-call phone services.
• Provide back-up call for other facilities as needed.
• Personally examine patients as needed. The expectation is that you stay on-site until all patients that need to be seen are seen.
• Prescribe medication (including narcotics) and treatment within your prescriptive authority, as appropriate in your professional medical judgement, and without regard to cost. When prescribing, you should be mindful of medication adverse reactions, medication interactions, substance abuse issues, mental health disorders, comorbidities, allergies, pain level, vital signs, contraindications, drug monitoring, etc. within the context of the individual patient, prescribing for the appropriate duration of time.
• Review patient medical records as appropriate.
• Sign off on orders as appropriate.
• Comply with the correctional facility’s policies and procedures, unless doing so would be counter to common sense.
• If a determination is made that off-site care would be more appropriate for the patient, work with medical staff to send the patient off site or make appointments, recognizing that this can be overruled by the Sheriff/Jailer.
• Endeavor to attend a minimum of one ACH medical conference per year.
• Any and all other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Valid medical license (MD, DO, NP, PA) in the state where services are to be provided.
• Current Board Certification required.
• Current DEA registration required.
• Current collaborative agreement, if required by state.
• Experience in a primary care specialty, corrections, and/or managed health care delivery required.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to drive a motor vehicle required.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification with hands‑on training required.