(Archived) Women's Health Nurse Practitioner

Essential Duties and Responsibilities Clinic Operation Facilitate patient flow and clinic services to achieve an efficiently functioning clinic.

Interview patients briefly to identify specific medical problems and to answer patient questions.

Serve as birth control counselor and medication prescriber and dispenser.

Explain medical problems, treatments and prescriptions to patients.

Arrange referrals as necessary.

Carry out patient follow-up by scheduling return appointments for problems or abnormal lab results, calling patients back when necessary, and answering patient questions.

Maintain patient medical records in good order utilizing standard language and abbreviations and following accepted medical standards for charting using standard affiliate EHR workflows

Assist management with new employee training.

Medical Services Actively participates in the delivery of reproductive health services.

Perform annual physical exams for women.

Prescribe all FDA approved contraceptive methods available at the affiliate and medications required for treatment under PPHS scope of care

Diagnose, treat, counsel, educate and follow up medical conditions including sexually transmitted infections in accordance with established medical protocol; refer as needed

Participate in the training of technical skills as assigned such as phlebotomy and ultrasound.

Ensure that all drugs are kept in a locked location unless a physician, pharmacist, registered nurse, or nurse practitioner is present

Counsel patients on the use, risks, benefits and side effects of any medications prescribed and ensure a drug information fact sheet is given to the client.

Dispense new medications to patients and review and approve repeat, non-judgmental dispensing by designated, trained staff.

Perform laboratory procedures e.g. hemoglobin, urinalysis, and wet mounts.

Maintain emergency equipment and supplies.

Provide patient centered, quality care and customer service at all times.

Perform basic laboratory functions (CLIA---moderate complexity )

Work cooperatively with staff, medical director, and administration.

Accept individual and joint responsibility for clinic efforts to comply with all organizational quality assurance guidelines and pertinent government regulations including OSHA, CLIA and HIPAA.