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Geriatrics NP Locums Need in NC!
Aya Locums
Last Updated: 11/09/24
Job Description
Job Posting: Nurse Practitioner, Geriatrics
Specialty: NP Geriatrics
Start Date: September 16th or as soon as credentialed
Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Call: 1:3 night call and 24-hour weekend call (can be done from home)
Work Details
- Support Staff: Nurses, LCSW, Case Workers
- Coverage Needed per Month: 80 hours per week
- Patients per Day: 1-6/7 (varies based on patient illness severity and medication needs)
- Patient Population/Age: 55 and older, able to live safely in the community
Department Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform comprehensive history and physical on new referrals
- Perform interval history and physicals on established participants quarterly and as needed
- Evaluate and treat participants with episodic illnesses
- Refer participants to medical specialists as needed
- Admit participants to the hospital
- Provide primary care (attending) responsibilities for management
- Provide updates to the team regularly
- Utilize specialty consultants judiciously
- Coordinate discharge planning with the team
- Manage all care of participants in the nursing home:
- Provide regular visits
- Perform telephone contacts with nursing home staff as required
- Admit nursing home participants to hospital when necessary
- Actively participate in family conferences
- Coordinate 24-hour care delivery
- Document participant changes appropriately in the medical record and communicate changes to team members
- Participate as a member of the Interdisciplinary Team, including participant care planning
- Attend staff meetings
- EMR System: True Chart
Practice Setting
- Setting: Clinic/Private Practice
Requirements
- Board Certification: BC
- License Required: NC
- Certifications Required: Experience caring for elderly, in good standing and enrolled with Medicare and Medicaid. Provide schools attended, NPI, and work experience
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Proven clinical leadership
- Ability to excel in a team environment
- Act within the scope of authority to practice
- Meet standardized set of competencies for the position established by PACE of Guilford and Rockingham Counties and approved by CMS before working independently
Credentialing Timeframe
- 30-45 days
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Company Details
San Diego, California, United States
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