Nurse Practitioner (APP-NP)
Farmington, NM Clinical
Job Type
Full-time
Description

Hamilton Health Box is a rapidly growing healthcare startup operating hybrid telemedicine-enabled primary care clinics for small and medium businesses across the country. Our goal is to find high potential individuals to drive a high-touch, low-cost healthcare experience for all of our patients and clients.

 

Position Summary: 

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) will work closely with supervising Physicians and will manage 3-5 separate primary care micro clinics and care for the surrounding communities. It will consist of a combination of virtual and in-person medical care. The key objective is to create value through health coaching, disease management, preventative screening, and education.  


Essential functions: 

  • Promotes and maintains patient health by providing medical services under the supervision of a physician. 
  • Contributes to a physician’s efficiency by identifying short-term and long-range patient care issues. 
  • Recommends options and courses of action for patient care. 
  • Implements physician directives. 
  • Assesses patient health by interviewing patients and performing physical examinations including obtaining, updating, and studying medical histories. 
  • Determines abnormal conditions by administering or ordering diagnostic tests, such as X-rays and laboratory studies and interpreting test results. 
  • Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records. 
  • Performs therapeutic procedures by administering injections and immunizations, suturing, and managing wounds and infections. 
  • Instructs and counsels patients by providing normal growth and development information and providing counseling on emotional problems of daily living. 
  • Provides a community of care by developing and implementing patient-management plans. 
  • Maintains a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations. 
  • Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols. Complies with federal, state, and local legal and professional requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating future legislation; and enforcing adherence to requirements and advising management on needed actions 
  • Collaborates in the development and evaluation of patient care.  Updates clinical guidelines/protocols/pathways; works autonomously and accepts accountability for outcomes; signs orders in accordance with institution and state board requirements; collaborates in research and teaching projects and applies research to practice. 
  • Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies. 
  • Develops health care team staff by providing information, educational opportunities, and experimental growth opportunities. 
  • Utilizes telemedicine interface to complete virtual visits.  
  • Ability to float, round to multiple facilities and/or take call (first call) to support Urgent Care APPs. 

Skills and Qualifications: 

  • Health promotion and maintenance 
  • Thoroughness 
  • Clinical skills 
  • Informing others 
  • Excellent communication skills 
  • Medical teamwork 
  • Physiological knowledge 
  • Bed side manner 
  • Infection control 
Requirements

Nurse Practitioner 


Education: Graduate of a Nurse Practitioner program approved by the State of New Mexico; Master of Nursing required. 


Licenses/Certifications: 

  • Licensed to practice professional nursing as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner by the State of New Mexico or other specified state (s). 
  • Licensure by the State of New Mexico APRN and eligibility for full prescriptive authority by the State of New Mexico or other specified state (s) 
  • Certified by a recognized national certification by the State Board of New Mexico or other specified state (s) in area of population foci and/or additional specialty recognition beyond the APRN. 
  • Eligibility for DEA licensure. 
  • Basic Cardiac Life Certification. 
Salary Description
$135,000 - $155,000