NP - Nurse Practitioner/NP - Family Practice
Locums Family Nurse Practitioner
Location:, Oregon
Contract Length: Locums to Perm
Setting: Outpatient Tribal Health clinic
Credentialing Timeline: Approximately four weeks
Pay: $95 hourly 1099
Benefits: Covered Travel, Lodging, and Malpractice
Position Summary
A clinic in Oregon is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner for a 13-week locum tenens assignment. The NP will provide comprehensive primary care services to Tribal members, members of other federally recognized tribes, and community patients.
The preferred candidate will be comfortable treating patients across the lifespan and independently managing routine, acute, and chronic health conditions.
Schedule
- Flexible: Can accommodate either a 4-day workweek (four 10-hour shifts) or a traditional 5-day workweek, totaling 40 hours per week.
- Closed on Tribal holidays
- Same-day appointments for established patients with acute concerns
- Participation in after-hours telephone consultation may be required
Responsibilities
- Evaluate, diagnose, and treat acute and chronic medical conditions
- Average 16 patients per day
- EMR: NextGen
- Conduct physical examinations and preventive health visits
- Provide family medicine, pediatric, women’s health, and well-child services
- Manage diabetes and other chronic illnesses
- Provide family-planning and contraceptive services
- Administer or order CDC-recommended immunizations
- Provide medication-assisted treatment when appropriately trained
- Order and interpret laboratory and diagnostic studies
- Prescribe medications in accordance with state law and clinic policy
- Coordinate referrals for imaging, specialty care, and outside services
- Perform approved outpatient procedures
- Maintain accurate and timely medical records
- Collaborate with physicians, pharmacy, behavioral health, nursing, and support staff
Procedures May Include
- Skin biopsies
- Toenail removal
- Pap smears
- Nexplanon insertion and removal
- Steroid, joint, and trigger-point injections
- Wound care
- Other minor procedures within the NP’s scope of practice
Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program
- National certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner or appropriate primary care specialty
- Active, unrestricted NP/APRN license
- Active DEA registration and prescriptive authority
- Current BLS certification
- Outpatient primary care experience
- Ability to treat patients across the lifespan
Preferred Qualifications
- At least two years of primary care experience
- Tribal Health, Indian Health Service, rural health, or community health experience
- MAT experience or applicable training
- Experience serving medically underserved populations
About
Arc Health
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