FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER Job in Brooklyn 11210, New York Us
FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER
Part-Time Flexible Hours (4-6 hrs/month)
Jewish Child Care Association (JCCA) is a comprehensive child and family services agency which helps more than 16,000 children and families every year and is consistently rated at the highest levels for the quality of our programs. We currently seek a Family Nurse Practitioner for our Brooklyn location.
Responsibilities include:
- Deliver direct primary care to clients 0 to 21 years of age developing therapeutic plans of care for prevention, management and maintenance of optimum health for children in care.
- Assess, diagnose, treat, manage, evaluate and monitor acute and chronic illnesses.
- Administer prevention services, prenatal/postnatal services, family planning.
- Order, perform, interpret, evaluate, and review diagnostic studies and procedures.
- Prescribe pharmaceutical, evaluate outcomes and dictate changes in management levels of therapeutics.
- Prescribe medications based on clinical indicators.
- Provide health education and counseling to those clients seeking family planning services promoting positive health behaviors and self care skills.
- Review and assess the quality of services of children receiving medical and reproductive health services in the community.
- Makes referrals to health care professionals, specialists, other clinics in the community and assist staff in obtaining and maintaining partnership with the community providers.
- Assists/instruct other health care employees in the management of client care.
- Conduct trainings for staff and clients as required.
- Ensure that client records are kept confidential consistent with the JCCA Medical Department Policies and Procedures and HIPAA standards.
- Monitor HIPAA compliance within the work environment.
REQUIREMENTS include a Master’s Degree in Nursing as well as possession of current Registered Nurse license; Nurse Practitioner training/certification in reproductive health field; and experience working in pediatrics or adolescent medicine. Excellent organizational skills, basic knowledge of Microsoft Word, ability to coordinate with a wide range of staff are necessary.
EOE M/F. Please e-mail resumes to:
LuyandoR@jccany.org