Advanced practice registered nurse or mid-level provider, portsmouth, nh

Benefits Include:

• 401K
• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• STD
• LTD
• Life
• $2,000 CME Reimbursement per Calendar Year

Essential Functions:

Provide office-based pain management services.

• Perform acts of advanced assessment, diagnosis, prescription, selection and administration of therapeutic measures and treatment regimes.
• Consult, plan and implement collaborative management, referrals, or transfer of care as appropriate.
• Practice within standards consistent with those established by the National Council of the New Hampshire State Board of Nursing.
• Recognize limits of knowledge and experience and plan for the management of situations beyond own expertise.
• Maintain up to date and timely records and documentation.
• Allocate sufficient time as is reasonably necessary for effective patient care; typically, 40 hours per week.
• Maintain confidentiality as it applies to all state, federal and company guidelines.
• Provide full time services including:
• Pain evaluations
• Consultation and referral
• Routine office visits
• Medication management (including narcotic analgesics)
• Referral to intervention lists when appropriate
• Order urine toxicology screens, pill counts, MRIs, EMGs, or radiologic studies as indicated
• Cover emergency calls for own patients

Other Functions and Responsibilities:

Attend professional conferences or meetings at the direction of the Regional Administrator or CEO.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Successful completion of an approved nurse practitioner program.

Experience:

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Professional nursing theory, practice and care, knowledge of policies and regulations, excellent communication skills, time management skills, and the ability to work closely with providers, staff and management.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Current DEA licensing.

Experience:

1-2 years’ experience in pain management facility.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

REQUIRED LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS APRN license in the State of NH pursuant to RSA 326 - B or license pursuant to multi-state compact.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The organization strives to maintain a clean, well-lit, ventilated facility. Position involves the occasional exposure to patients with contagious or communicable diseases, blood and/or bodily fluids, radiation, and disruptive, violent or aggressive patient behavior. Position may at times involve a high-stress work environment with multi-tasking demands.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, sit, climb stairs, balance, kneel, bend, stoop, crouch, exercise hand controls including fingering and keyboarding, push wheelchair with or without patient, lift or carry up to 75 lbs, reach, use a computer, talk, hear; specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus, ability to concentrate for long periods of time, ability to articulate using medical terminology as needed, ability to think and reason.