Family Medicine - Part-Time NP​/PA

Department:

10669 Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center - Work Campus Care:
Shared

Part time

Yes

20

varies

$47.50 - $71.25

• Provides diagnosis and treatment for common acute illnesses, prevention and maintenance care to patients with stable chronic illnesses and performs interim physical exams for healthy patients within nurse protocol.
• Explains Nurse Protocol meaning and scope, including physician delegation rights.
• Separates patients with suspected infectious diseases (e.g., tuberculosis, varicella‑zoster) by placing them in exam rooms with personal protective equipment, and communicates their condition to staff confidentially.
• Elicits appropriate present and past medical history and review of symptoms.
• Performs appropriate physical examination and orders appropriate diagnostic studies, discriminating between normal and abnormal findings.
• Establishes appropriate differential diagnosis.
• Assesses stability of chronic illness and compliance with therapy, monitors disease complications, establishes treatment plans, and assesses need for hospitalization or physician intervention.
• Determines timing for follow‑up and orders referrals.
• Counsels regarding health promotion, disease prevention, and provides guidance as appropriate.
• Provides health education to patients: educates on improving, promoting and maintaining health status, self‑care, lifestyle choices, tailoring education, assessing learning readiness, prioritizing learning needs, ensuring appropriate time frame, utilizing teaching materials, documenting learning outcomes, initiating educational programs.
• Maintains accurate records, medication lists, documentation of care follow‑up for administrative purposes and reimbursement of services.
• Adheres to policy and procedure for documentation, maintains appropriate level of documentation to support complexity, reviews and updates problem list annually, documents phone calls, writes visits concise, handles after‑hours calls on rotating schedule.
• Maintains competence in clinical practice through self‑assessment, peer review, participation in educational activities, continuing education, and annual requirements.
• Supervises and intervenes with clinical issues, implements clinical education, provides feedback, offers in‑service training, available for feedback call‑back, identifies barriers to patient flow and assists correction, collaborates with health care team.
• Adheres to drug protocols, prescribes within practice agreement, ensures updated agreement each year.
• Demonstrates regard for dignity and respect of patients and staff, codes radiologic procedures, maintains confidentiality, represents the practice positively, conducts activities with respect for patient rights.
• Follows safety precautions and procedures, uses equipment and PPE safely, completes required safety updates.
• Completes duties timely, promotes financial viability, participates in continuing education and outreach.

• Certification in related specialty
• Membership in related organization

Master’s from an accredited school of Nursing General Compliance

Nursing experience in a clinical setting

Full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, eye‑hand coordination, standing and walking for extensive periods, occasionally lifts up to 50 pounds, ability to distinguish letters, numbers and symbols with vision and hearing, respond to Code alerts and equipment alarms, work‑related stress due to volume and time constraints, irregular hours.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

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