Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care - St. Louis, MO - Full Time - Multiple Locations Job Listing at SSM Health in St. Louis, MO (Job ID 3396966-2024-04-22)

Description

Job Highlights:

Exciting opportunity within our well established health care system for the right individual. Potential to practice in numerous locations and offices across the Saint Louis region. Serve your community where the need is greatest. SSM Health is actively seeking a versatile and dynamic Floating Nurse Practitioner to join our healthcare team in the vibrant city of St. Louis and its surrounding areas. As a Floating NP, you will have the unique opportunity to provide healthcare services across multiple SSM Health facilities, contributing to the well-being of diverse patient populations.

Responsibilities:

• Travel between various SSM Health locations in the St. Louis region to deliver high-quality patient care.
• Conduct comprehensive health assessments, physical examinations, and screenings.
• Diagnose and treat common acute and chronic illnesses across different clinical settings.
• Collaborate with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure continuity of care.
• Order and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe medications, and initiate referrals as needed.
• Adapt to different clinical environments and demonstrate flexibility in providing patient-centered care.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date medical records, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations.
• Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings and contribute to quality improvement initiatives.
• Provide patient education on preventive health measures and lifestyle modifications.

Qualifications:

• Master's or Doctorate degree in Nursing from an accredited program.
• Current Nurse Practitioner license in the state of Missouri.
• Certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner or in a relevant specialty.
• Previous experience as a Nurse Practitioner preferred, but new graduates will be considered.
• Strong clinical and interpersonal skills with the ability to adapt to different clinical settings.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Commitment to providing compassionate and patient-centered care.

SSM Medical Group is a member of SSM Health Care—St. Louis and includes almost 400 primary and specialty care physicians in 65 locations, including 6 urgent care clinics and 5 Express Clinics. Our clinics are located in north, south and mid St. Louis County; in St. Charles County; in Warrenton and Troy, Missouri; and in Belleville and Maryville, Illinois.

At SSM, we take pride in the physician leadership of our Medical Group. Our physicians have a voice in their own practice operations, as well as the overall direction of the organization. Our SSM physician leadership allows physicians to manage the care of their own patients and provide appropriate treatment to meet each patient's unique needs.

All SSM Health Medical Group primary care practices are nationally recognized as NCQA Patient-Centered Medical Homes and provide exceptional care through evidence-based protocols, while coordinating and managing patient care across the continuum.

Job Summary:

In collaboration with physician colleagues, demonstrates and provides professional nursing care to patients requiring an advanced level of knowledge and management of their nursing care in both inpatient and ambulatory settings.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assesses patient of any age presenting for health care and obtains a personal medical history, appropriate physical examination with recording of the resulting information.
• Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities.
• Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient's age-specific needs.
• Addresses and responds to patient and staff requests for information in a timely manner, prioritizing patient requests and urgent needs.
• Plans for patient care by making comprehensive clinical decisions based on advanced diagnostic skills and professional judgment, reviewing results of diagnostic tests and procedures, developing and implementing a treatment plan for the patient and/or family, and providing a wide range of interventions required to effect change.
• Problem solving skills demonstrated by making competent advanced clinical decisions, utilizing appropriate resources, consulting with physician, as appropriate, and involving management where necessary.
• Maintains effective methods of formal and informal communication with staff so that dissemination of information/administrative decisions are conveyed in a positive and supportive manner; motivates and supports staff to achieve department/contractual goals and operational benchmarks.
• Monitors the effectiveness of interventions.
• Facilitates the patient's transition within and between health care settings, e.g. admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals. Facilitates referral of patients to other appropriate community healthcare facilities, agencies and resources.
• Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing educational tools.
• Recognizes and utilizes opportunities to act as a change agent by introducing nursing practice innovations.
• Evaluates nursing practices associated with specialty area, defines needs/problems with patient care and makes constructive suggestions that creates a positive patient outcome.
• Promotes positive health behaviors and self-care skills through education and/or counseling.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Master's degree from nationally accredited Nurse Practitioner program

EXPERIENCE

• One year nursing experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
• Constant standing and walking.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Occasional driving.
• Rare crawling and running.

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:

Employee

Department:

8272000125 CMC Float Pool

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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