Nurse Practitioner/ Physician Assistant

Liberty Doctors LLC is looking to hire a Full time Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to work in a family medical practice in North Charleston, SC. We offer excellent benefits including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision insurance as well as paid time off, 401(k) and competitive salary. We are looking to place this position for June 2022.

About Us: Our mission and primary focus is the well-being and overall health of our patients. We are passionate about educating our patients on living a healthy lifestyle. We take pride in providing our patients with excellent care and customer service. We also strive to employ dedicated professionals by offering constant support and a positive team environment.

Job Functions:

● Conducts physical exams, assesses health status, orders and interprets tests, prescribes medications, and treats illnesses including giving injections and suturing wounds. Consults with physicians as needed and refers to physicians for more complicated medical cases or cases that are not a routine part of a PA’s / NP’s scope of work.

● Ensure optimal patient care services by leading and coordinating health care delivery of the physician’s health team.

● Identifies potential medical and surgical problems by conducting physical examinations; recording patient histories; preparing patient workups and summaries; recording normal and abnormal data and tentative conclusions for review by the physician.

● Provides direct patient care under indirect physician supervision by coordinating and scheduling appointments; explaining the necessity, preparation, nature, and anticipated effects of procedures to the patient and/or patient’s family; completing laboratory studies; performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.

● Monitors patient progress by carrying-out patient care services; maintaining patient records; consulting with supervising physician when patient’s progress does not meet anticipated and/or predetermined criteria; arranging consultations.

● Prescribes medications and makes recommendations for other therapeutic forms of treatment.

● Provides information by participating in basic science and clinical research projects conducted by supervising physicians; preparing statistical reports and analyses setting forth progress, adverse trends, and appropriate recommendations or conclusions.

● Improves patient care quality results by studying, evaluating, and redesigning processes; implementing changes.

● Serves and protects the facility by adhering to professional standards, policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements.

● Updates job knowledge by recommending state-of the-art practices; providing nursing leadership; contributing to professional publications; maintaining personal networks; and participating in professional organizations.

● Enhances company reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to patient care and job performance.

● Monitors therapies and provides continuity of care.

● Triages patient calls and evaluates patient problems. Responds to emergencies including use of CPR.

● Counseling patients/family on preventive health care.

● Documents patient information and care in medical records and may maintain department statistical databases for research purposes.

● Consistently demonstrate ability to respond to changing situations in a flexible manner in order to meet current needs, such as re-prioritizing work as necessary. Minimize non-productive time and fill slow periods with activities that will enable you to prepare to meet the future needs of the System (education, organizing, house - keeping, assisting others). Organize job functions and work areas to be able to effectively complete varied assignments within established time frames.

● Handling administrative duties, including but not limited to messages, refill request, paper work, forms, past medical record review, etc as directed by a supervising physician – for patients managed by a supervising physician.

● May be required to adjust typical work schedule based on practice needs – i.e. to cover additional days due to a supervising physician’s time out of the office or that of another midlevel in supervising physician’s team. Schedule call every other Friday when in clinic.

● Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.

● Integrative Medicine

● Other duties as assigned.

Position Qualifications:

● Familiar with a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures.

● Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.

● A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

● Nursing Skills,

● Administering Medication,

● Performing Diagnostic Procedures,

● Bedside Manner,

● Dependability,

● Emotional Control,

● Teamwork,

● Verbal Communication

Education:

● Physician Assistant: Bachelor’s degree and successful completion of accredited Physician Assistant program. One year experience as PA, preferably in a clinic setting.

● Nurse Practitioner: Master’s degree and certification as a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP) based on RN licensure and state authority for advanced practice. Average 1-6 years of experience.

● Medical Teamwork National certification. To maintain their national certification, must log required hours of continuing medical education every two years and sit for required recertification.

● SC State License also required.

● Current CPR certificate required

● NP or PA 2-5 year experience preferred