Mobile clinic nurse practitioner

Description

About the Role

This position supports our Mobile Unit, which delivers care directly to patients across Los Angeles County, including schools, community organizations, and shelters. In partnership with these sites, patients are pre-scheduled and the mobile unit travels to provide care focused primarily on preventive services, including vaccinations, physical exams (annual and sports), and some chronic care support.

When not deployed on mobile assignments, the Nurse Practitioner will provide patient care at our Sunland clinic. This role offers a mix of community-based outreach and traditional clinic practice.

NURSE PRACTITIONER JOB SUMMARY Provides continuous and comprehensive services necessary for the promotion of optimal health, prevention and treatment, in an underserved community clinic. To perform a variety of advanced clinical duties involved in assessing, treating, controlling, and preventing patient illness and disease within the assigned public health nursing program; to perform physical examinations; identify patients with physical and emotional illness; and to administer medications as prescribed.

• MOBILE CLINIC NURSE PRACTITIONER ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Identify physical and emotional illnesses through observations, interpretations of laboratory finding, and analysis of patient charts; analysis of diagnostic tests and appropriate medical, hospital, or other health care as needed Facilitates and implements systems that promote effective collaborative communication with colleagues, peers, physician associates, staff, hospital relationships and other members of the health care team.
• Works closely with the Medical Director to ensure the delivery of quality patient care.
• Maintain confidentiality and patient privacy.
• Maintains Compliance with patient rights, guidelines and standards.
• Provides direction for continuous quality improvement activities and develops methods for measuring the effectiveness of education and practice activities.
• Performs in quality assurance review on a periodic basis, including systematic review of records and treatment plans.
• Assists in the establishment and maintenance of CCHC quality improvement program that monitors important aspects of care, identifies problems in care, implements changes to improve care, and evaluated effectiveness of action taken.
• Collaborates with physician colleagues of the development of process protocols and standardized procedure guidelines for the delivery of patient care.