Nurse Practitioner
Full-time
- Senior
Arlington, WA
Stillaguamish Tribe
Posted On: Feb-19-2020
NOT APUBLISHED YET
Status:
This Job is Closed
Details
This position is responsible for providing comprehensive medical, preventive and therapeutic health care services for the Stillaguamish Tribal Community. The position is for a Family Nurse Practitioner who delivers primary care in a clinic-centered approach with home visits and community outreach. The FNP must be self-directed in providing this health care service and needs to function independently.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Manages the overall medical needs of Assesses health status and health practices of
individuals and families through health histories, observation, and physical examinations.
- Identifies health needs; develops and implements health care treatment plans with periodic
follow-up.
- Prescribes specific drugs and treatment for common health
- Orders and performs laboratory tests/diagnostic procedures and interprets
- Establishes and maintains patient medical records and charts, ensuring compliance with Indian
Health Service directives; HIPAA compliance expected.
- Establishes and maintains a network of collaborative relationships with private physicians, IHS, and health service providers.
- Provides referrals to local providers when services are not available at the clinic.
- Duties would include scheduling the workload, assuring the adequacy of supplies, maintaining clinic procedures, coordinating medical services, planning and evaluating clinic services and implementing necessary care.
- Provides home visits as needed.
- Implements community wellness programs and functions as nurse consultant for tribal programs.
- Must be able to travel independently within various locations of the tribal community.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of professional medical theory and
- Ability to apply medical techniques to patient care in field and clinic
- Ability to maintain harmonious working relationships with other
- Ability to maintain complete casework
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing with clients, health resources staff, IHS,
- Culture: Must have cultural sensitivity and be able to incorporate Native American community
values in the health care process.
Position Qualifications
- Current license as a Registered Nurse and Family Nurse Practitioner with prescriptive authority in WA State
- ANA Board Certification as FNP
- WA state Driver License and ability to be approved by Tribal insurance to drive Tribal vehicles.
- Ability to pass criminal background check and pre-employment drug screen