Nurse Practitioner

I am a business consultant posting this on behalf of a client, Advanced Pain Management

Job Summary:Advanced Pain Management is a leader in interventional pain management across Arizona with a mission to provide effective and innovative pain management solutions to all of our patients. We are looking for a full-time professional Nurse Practitioner for our Tucson office to work 4, 10 hour shifts (with no weekend shifts), who can deliver pain management medical care to a wide variety of patients.

The Nurse Practitioner will be responsible for caring for patients, maintaining accurate and current patient records. The successful candidate will work as a team with our medical assistants, lab techs, and doctors, and will assist in delivering premium care to each and every patient.

Responsibilities:

• Performing physical examinations
• Ordering and performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures and/or physical therapy
• Formulating a diagnostic impression
• Implementing treatment plans
• Monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions
• Offering counseling and education to meet patient needs
• Making/requesting appropriate referrals to specialists
• Counseling and/or discharging non-compliant patients
• Performing/administering trigger point injections, joint injections, and occipital nerve block with or without ultrasound guidance
• Authorization/handling of incoming fax requests for medication refills
• Review of monthly prescription monitoring reports
• Review of radiology/lab reports

Requirements:

• Friendly and caring personality
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and writing skills;
  Excellent Patient Care
• Board-certified Family and Adult Nurse Practitioner
• Basic Life Support BCLS Certification
• Current and unrestricted DEA license
• Knowledge of OSHA, FDA, and HIPAA compliance
• ACLS/BLS certification
• DEA license
• Pain Management experience (preferred but not necessary)