Family Nurse Practitioner -CPt Knoxville TN

Reports to:

• Directly: Lead Nurse Practitioner

• Will maintain good working relationships and actively collaborate with the Pharmacist, Pharmacy Manager, and retail partner Store Manager plus support staff. Actively work within TCH clinics support staff both located in the market and overall company. Maintain a good working relationship with collaborating physician(s).

Position Summary:

The Take Care Nurse Practitioner (TCNP) believes in excellence and is passionate about providing outstanding patient care. The TCNP will be responsible for providing episodic care, screening and education for patients 18 months or older. Our professional clinics will be located within a community retail pharmacy will be easily accessible to our patients and staffed 363 days a year. TCNP’s are the heart and soul of our new nurse-practitioner-based health care model committed to providing and promoting patient-centered communication and care.

The TCNP will have a flexible work schedule to meet the staffing needs of the individual clinics.

Essential Functions:

• Provide episodic care, screening and education to our Take Care Health patients.
  
• Extend warm, compassionate care to all with a respect for the diversity of all patients.
  
• Committed to excellence, best practices, and superior customer service with every patient.
  
• Participate in a collegial fashion with all Take Care Health colleagues.
  
• Participates in ongoing Quality Assurance audits to include Peer Review, CP Review, Medication Administration review, and continuing education.
  
• Support and follow the most current evidence-based guidelines of practice in providing quality patient care.
  
• Provide diagnostic screenings as outlined in Take Care’s evidence-based guidelines.
  
• Provide common vaccinations as outlined in Take Care’s evidence-based guidelines.
  
• Participate in ongoing nursing education.
  
• Maintain current state nurse practitioner licensure.
  
• Participates in national, state, and local-level Nurse Practitioner organizations.
  
• Continuously communicate with Take Care’s leadership to enhance our patient centric experiences at our Take Care Health clinics.
  
• Competency in utilizing electronic medical records and information systems; utilization of these systems to the fullest capacity to provide superior patient care documentation.
  
• Clinics are open 7 days a week, 363 days a year and staffed each day by our Take Care Providers.
  
• Performs other duties as deemed necessary by the Lead NP, Assistant Lead NP, Regional Nurse Practitioner and Chief Nurse Practitioner Officer.

Position Qualifications:

• Licensure requirements.
  
  • Valid Advanced Practice State License issued by the State Board of Nursing.
    
  • Valid accreditation from the AANP or ANCC as a Family Nurse Practitioner.
    
  • Valid Prescriptive Authority (per state practice requirements).
    
  • Meet and maintain all legal requirements per state and national statutes to practice within state (for your market) as a family nurse practitioner.
    
  • CPR Certification.
  
  
• Minimum of eight (8) months of family nurse practitioner clinical experience.
  
• Recent experience with pediatric patients (18 months and older).
  
• Meet and maintain all legal requirements per state and national statutes.
  
• Team oriented and passionate.
  
• Enthusiastic in the delivery of compassionate, quality patient centric care.
  
• Excellent communication skills that will enable the Nurse Practitioner to provide an informed patient experience; promote quality care within the clinics, within our retail partner and within the community.
  
• Basic business skills that will foster a pleasant patient experience from check-in through check-out (including: cash collection, insurance information gathering) through our EMR
  
• Ability to complete training and utilize the TCH electronic medical record and information systems.
  
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task.
  
• Pleasant interpersonal demeanor and ability to work with all levels of associates and leadership.

Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

While performing the duties of the job, the colleague will be required to meet the demands of the following requirements: sit, stand, talk and hear. In addition, the colleague must have the ability to:

• Work a 12 hour shift
  
• Sit up to 6-8 hours/day
  
• Stand up to 4-6 hours/day
  
• Bend to reach supplies/materials occasionally
  
• Reach with hands and arms in excess of 20 inches frequently throughout the day
  
• Reach to elevated supplies/materials, occasionally to heights of 72-75 inches, and regularly to heights of 55-65 inches
  
• Use a step-stool, as necessary, to reach elevated materials
  
• Lift materials up to 10 pounds frequently, up to 20 pounds occasionally
  
• Grasp patient diagnosis tools
  
• Key information into a computer workstation

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Take Care Health Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Walgreens Co.