Description:Our Mission: To improve lives by providing comprehensive, high-quality healthcare to every person in every community that we serve.
Our Vision: CCHN will maintain its position as the leading community health center in the state and become a model for all other healthcare organizations to follow.
At CompleteCare we are patients serving patients. We know what it’s like to be on the other side of the desk, so we are driven by the common purpose to continually exceed expectations at every turn.
CompleteCare employees are a particularly dedicated group of individuals who are good at what they do and want to use their skills to help people. Working for the community requires diligence and efficiency, but more than anything else, CompleteCare knows that kindness is the best way to truly make a difference.
If you are someone who wants to be the change, then we want you to join our team!
Major Function: Functions in an expanded role within nursing practice to provide and promote comprehensive primary health care, episodic sick care, and health education to age appropriate population based on education.
Quality Standards:
- Professionalism
- Positivity
- Productivity
- Promptness
- Kindness
Job Duties include, but not limited to:
Provides nursing care within the scope of a NJ licensed nurse practitioner
- Assess the bio/psycho/social/spiritual health status of individual clients and families through history taking, data collection, and physical exam
- Assists staff nurses to facilitate care for walk-in patients
- Completes accurate documentation according to site specific standards
- Works in collaboration with staff, physicians, allied health professionals, and others to implement the patients plan of care
Provides pharmacological care within the scope of a NJ Certified Nurse Practitioner
- Participates in annual update of joint practice protocols as per NJ Board of Nursing guidelines
- Prescribes or make judgments regarding pharmacologic agents and therapeutic devices
- Dispenses/Administers/Prescribes medications according to policy & protocol
Provides nurse practitioner care within the scope of a NJ Certified Nurse Practitioner
- Recognizes and manages deviations from health
- Recognizes patients whose problem is out of scope of practice and obtain appropriate care
- Orders appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
- Follows up on laboratory and diagnostic tests ordered
- Communicates with patient to arrive at mutually agreed upon plan of care to include actual and potential health problems, both medical and nursing in nature
- Evaluation and revision of patient plan of care is ongoing
Provides health education
- Informs, teaches and guides clients/families to assume responsibility for management of their own health
- Individualizes education to facilitate patient independence and optimize patient self care
- Educates patients on pharmacological agents, therapeutic devices, laboratory or diagnostic testing
- Promotes health education for groups of patients, families, staff, agencies, communities, and organizations pertinent to area of specialty as appropriate to program
Provides referral and case management
- Refers patients to internal resources according to program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
- Refers patients for specialty care as per program standards, protocol, or physician consultation
- Refers patients to primary care as appropriate
- Follows up on referrals according to site specific standards
- Case manages client care according to program standards and patients plan of care
EOE
. Requirements:Qualifications:
- HS Diploma or equivalent
- NJ RN Licensure
- NJ NP Certification with prescriptive privileges
- Valid CPR