Thegoodkindgroup
Salary: $120,000 - 135,000
Setting: Outpatient addiction/substance abuse clinic
Hours: 6:30AM - 2:30PM
1199 Benefits
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Provides anticipatory guidance, screening and health education to patients to promote and maintain health.
• Initiates treatment for patients with commonly occurring health problems which lie within the nurse specialist's scope of practice by using a systematic approach to history and physical appraisal of patients and/or families through clinical judgment of evaluated data.
• Prescribes, coordinates, delegates and evaluates care.
• Prescribes medications listed in the approved institutional formulary as a function delegated by the physician consultant(s) to the practice.
• Monitors patients with stabilized long term or chronic illness.
• Plans appropriate care utilizing community resources and acts as a liaison by relaying information necessary for continuity of care to other health professionals and agencies.
• Instructs individual and/or families or groups about health or defined health problems.
• Participates in Quality Assurance activities.
• Participates in research projects.
• Promotes guest relations; anticipates and responds to the needs of others; provides assistance in a courteous, quick manner; treats others with care and respect maintaining privacy, confidentiality and dignity.
• Masters in Science, Nursing
• NYS Licensed Nurse Practitioner
• Experience in Family Health, Internal Medicine, Behavioral Health, Addiction