Nurse Practitioner

**Position Description** Harlem United is the parent company for Upper Room AIDS Ministry (URAM). URAM provides the healthcare services from the Federally Qualified Health Center located in the heart of Harlem. We provide Primary Care, Specialty Care, Dental Care and Wellness Care to those seeking diagnosis and treatment. All employees of URAM are responsible to perform their job practicing good risk management, quality assurance, and delivering excellent internal and external customer service. The Nurse Practitioner assists with leading the care team and provides guidance to all team members. The Nurse Practitioner is expected to help lead the care team with a commitment to ensuring each team works to the top of his or her license consistently adheres with all protocols. It is expected that the Nurse Practitioner will delegate visits that do not require a physician or Nurse Practitioner to the RN allowing the Nurse Practitioner to dedicate more time to those patients that need to be seen with the scope of practice for the Nurse Practitioner. Nurse Practitioner’s are also expected to ensure that each patient has an individualized care plan with oversight by the PCP and that can be used by each care team member to help facilitate and guide care. Nurse Practitioner are also responsible to provide excellent customer service at all times. *Under the supervision of the Medical Director and in accordance with established policies and procedures, the Nurse Practitioner delivers high quality comprehensive primary care, with expertise in HIV, immigrant and homeless care. The AIDS institute Guidelines [www.hivguidelines.com](http://www.hivguidelines.com/)and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) http://www.ahrg.gov/clinic/uspstfix.htmare utilized as resources and guides for accepted standards of care.* **Essential Job Functions** The following duties are mandatory requirements of the job: - Provide excellent customer service at all times, apologizing for any throughput delays, engaging patients with a warm and friendly greeting. - Provide direct patient care, including prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of illness, within their licenses scope of practice and specialty training - Provides Primary Care, routine and acute care, for scheduled, same day and walk in appointments for face to face encounters as well as telehealth encounters. - Conduct visits per protocol for all patients with chronic conditions under the direction of the physician and addresses urgent and complex issues. Including Initiation of treatment and management of chronic illnesses including, but not limited to, HIV infection, Hepatitis C, substance abuse, asthma, bronchitis, bronchitis, diabetes, lipid disorders, and hypertension. - Identify and delegate visits that can be handled by RN under the supervision of the physician and having notified the patient in advance - Maintains a professional demeanor at all times, including demonstration of sound moral and ethical character, compassion, adherence to all agency standards for dress and decorum; reports for duty and signs in and out per agency protocol. - Demonstrates proficiency of electronic medical record; including documentation, e-prescribing and coding. - Complies with productivity expectations under the direction of the Medical Director. - Delivers cost effective care, according to evidence based guidelines - Generates appropriate referrals to ancillary and specialty services including medical, mental health and social based services. - Maintains documentation and e-prescribing practices according to standards of the agency and regulatory agencies including but not limited to history and physical, social history and literacy level as well as care management. - Completes and locks progress notes within 48 hours of client encounter. - Ensure timely prescribing, orders, addressing labs, interpreting of test results, addressing telephone encounters, ordering and reviewing of specialty referra…