Avenue360 Health and Wellness
Nurse Practitioner Women's Health (Heights)
Our Compensation Package Includes:
- Generous Paid Time Off- (11 paid holidays per year, 2 Floating Holidays per year, 14 paid Vacation days per year, 4 hours per month of accrued Sick days)
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 401K match up to 4%
- Company paid Life Insurance
- Company paid Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
Overview:
Delivers primary care commensurate with training and experience to all Avenue 360 patients. Delivers care appropriate for an outpatient, primary care FQHC with a multicultural, multilingual patient population.
Duties and Responsibilities:
· Examines, diagnoses and treats patients of all ages.
· Performs initial history and physical examinations for outpatients.
· Provides ongoing outpatient care for assigned patients. Screens outpatients to determine need for further care.
· Prescribes medications within defined scope of practice.
· Orders diagnostic studies (e.g.-x-rays, lab tests, ECG).
· orders blood specimens for testing and performing other comparable lab procedures.
· Initiates and expedites requests for consultation and schedules special tests and studies.
· Provides education and counseling of patients and families in preventive care, medical conditions, and the use of prescribed treatments and drugs.
· Performs all duties and services in full compliance with Joint Commission, Ryan White and funding source standards.
· Completes all EMR required fields after each visit including the e-signing of notes.
· Participates in on call coverage rotation
· Willingness to float to multiple sites as needed with appropriate notice
· Other duties as assigned.
Education, Experience, Licensure/Certification and Skills/Abilities Related Requirements:
· Must be in possession of a valid license to practice in the State of Texas.
· Have a thorough knowledge of the principles and practices of medicine and allied services commensurate with his/her training.
· Demonstrate a special interest in the area of community medicine.
· Ability to relate to culturally diverse patients and community.
· Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
· Minimum 2 years of pediatric experience or family medicine experience preferred
Continuing Education and Training Requirements:
Participates in trainings required by the funding source and/or as required by licensure.