Nurse Practitioner Outpatient Spec Loc

Job description

Overview If you share our mission of making life better for others, we invite you to consider this opportunity as an Advanced Practice Practitioner. Your ability to assess, diagnose and treat Legacy Clinic patients will ensure that proper care and support are given. Throughout your work in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, you’ll lend compassion and thoughtful insights in the treatment of patients. Responsibilities: Works in collaboration with physicians to provide complete physical examinations, diagnosis, and treatment of both chronic and episodic disorders. Assigned principal responsibility for primary health care of patients under professional medical direction from physicians. Seeks the expert opinion or advice of a physician whenever the incumbent decides a case falls outside the scope authorized by policies and protocol. The APP plans and implements, and a physician reviews and confirms, health care goals for patients. The APP typically remains responsible for the patient throughout the course of the treatment, provides the physical examination, the diagnosis, and the health care plan, determines when the patient has recovered, and releases the patient. The APP may...