Family Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants - Urgent Care | Lockhart | Texas
DirectShifts is looking for Family Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to join their team at Lockahart, Texas.
Responsibilities:
• Assure patient flow runs smoothly and efficiently.
• Follow protocols which provide medical authority when such are indicated in providing care
• Perform complete physical exams and assessments of patients including urgent, emergent and non-urgent presentation
• Selects, orders, and perform tests and procedures to augment physical findings
• Define/document differential diagnoses and list differential diagnoses with most likely diagnoses included
• Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as deemed necessary and appropriate for plan of care, in collaboration with supervising physician as indicated
• Interpret data and diagnostic results for appropriate course of action including but not limited to laboratory, radiology, EKG, etc. in collaboration with supervising physician as indicated
• Performs duties in accordance with the customary rules of ethics and conduct of the applicable State Board of Medicine and other such regulating bodies
• Prescribes dosages and instruct patients in correct usage
• Maintains quality, safety, and infection control standards
Requirements:
NURSE PRACTITIONERS
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Certified as a nurse practitioner with Texas state licensure
• DEA license with no restrictions
• Clinical experience in an emergency, urgent care or ambulatory clinic setting
• BLS certified
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
• Master's degree from an accredited program for Physician Assistants
• State licensure as a Physician Assistant
• National certification by one of the Physician Assistant certifying bodies (i.e. NCCPA)
• DEA license with no restrictions
• Clinical experience in an emergency, urgent care or ambulatory clinic setting
• BLS certified
DirectShifts is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status,
or any other characteristic protected by law.
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In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility
to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon
hire.
