Family Nurse Practitioner

This plan emphasizes improving core functions and operations, including protecting the public from health threats, implementing strategies to support healthy living, and maintaining a focus on vulnerable populations, while developing efficient internal processes to support these activities. This is entry level specialized professional community health nursing work providing direct primary care, comprehensive nursing, therapeutic and preventive health care services in an expanded nurse role as a nurse practitioner to individuals, families and groups.

About the Position 

This is entry level specialized professional community health nursing work providing direct primary care, comprehensive nursing, therapeutic and preventive health care services in an expanded nurse role as a nurse practitioner to individuals, families and groups. 

Work is done in accordance with the Maryland Nurse Practice Act Code of Maryland Regulations: Practice of the Nurse Practitioner.  A Nurse Practitioner is a registered nurse (R.N.) who has advanced education and clinical training in a health care specialty area. Such specialty areas include, but are not limited to: Well Woman Care, Reproductive Health, PrEP, STI and HIV care and treatment, Adult Health; Family Health; Geriatrics; Pediatrics; Psychiatric; School Health; Women's/Ob Gyn Health (Mid wife). 
 
Incumbents in this class are responsible for providing care to clients by assessing health status, performing physical examinations, providing treatment, prescribing medications, recommending follow-up care and making referrals to appropriate health professionals. In addition, the incumbent provides health teaching, counseling and guidance to patients and their families. Work is performed under the direction of a higher-level nurse who provides administrative and professional nursing supervision and under the direction of a physician with whom a joint formal written agreement has 
been signed. 
 
Work requires making decisions concerning interpretation of considerable data such as physical/psychiatric examinations and laboratory reports. The employee's work is reviewed through records, reports, conferences and observation. 
 
Upon the satisfactory completion of a one (1) year probationary period, entry level incumbents may be non-competitively promoted to the II full performance level at Managements' discretion. 

About the Agency

The Prince George's County Health Department's (PGCHD) vision is that all Prince Georgians are their healthiest at every age and every stage. Their mission is to lead, engage, and empower our community to work collaboratively towards disease prevention, health equity, and total well-being. The PGCHD works to protect and support the public’s health through numerous services that range from restaurant inspections and disease tracking to care coordination and health promotion. The department is composed of four divisions: Behavioral Health Services, Environmental Health and Disease Control, Family Health Services, and Health and Wellness, supported by the Office of Administration, Office of Human Resources and the Office of the Health Officer. The mandate of the department has been, and will remain, broad. This plan emphasizes improving core functions and operations, including protecting the public from health threats, implementing strategies to support healthy living, and maintaining a focus on vulnerable populations, while developing efficient internal processes to support these activities.