Nurse Practitioners (Nursing Home and House Calls Settings)

Job description
Essen is currently seeking Full-time & Part-time Board-Certified Nurse Practitioners for our Nursing Home and House Calls Divisions.

The Nurse Practitioner will be part of Essen growing medical professionals. Your primary responsibility will be to provide advanced primary and/or specialty care to our patients. Responsibilities will include but not limited to, performing physical exams, recording patient medical history, creating care plans and administering diagnostic test.

Job Responsibilities: The selected candidate will be responsible to perform daily Nurse Practitioner duties including but not limited to:

Examines, diagnoses and treats patients

Ensures fulfillment of Essen Health Care commitment for ensuring quality care

Diagnoses and treats variety of diseases in general practice

Collects, records and maintains accurate patient information

Documents items such as: past medical, family, and social history, review of systems, examinations, medications, allergies, assessment and plan

Orders or executes various tests, analyses, and diagnostic images to provide information on patient's condition

Analyzes reports and findings of tests and of examination, and diagnoses condition

Administers or prescribes treatments

Orders lab and imaging tests to determine and manage an immediate treatment plan

Vaccinates patients to immunize patients from communicable diseases

Advises patients concerning diet, hygiene, and methods for prevention of disease

Consult with appropriate medical specialist when necessary; refer patient to subspecialists within network
Qualifications: The successful candidate will have the following Qualifications:

Master s Degree in a Nurse Practitioner Program: Family or Adult Geriatrics

Current New York State License as a Nurse Practitioner.

National Board Certification require

American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)

Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation (ONCC)

Bilingual (Spanish Speaking) is a plus

EMR/EHR experience a plus

New Grads are Encourage to Apply

Essen Health Care is a growing community healthcare network provides high quality, compassionate, and accessible medical care to some of the most vulnerable and under-served residents of New York State. Guided by a ‘population health’ model of care, Essen has five integrated clinical divisions offering services in primary & specialty offices, urgent care centers, and nursing homes, as well as house calls for home bound patients; all clinical services are also offered via telehealth. Our Care Management division supports patient-centered care through care coordination, complex care management and helping address health-related social needs.

Founded in 1999, Essen provides care in all five boroughs of New York City, with a primary focus in the Bronx. Staffed by over 300 primary and specialty care physicians and advanced clinicians, Essen Health Care is one of the largest, most comprehensive private medical groups in New York City. Essen maintains a Clinical Information Services team that maintains our enterprise-wide electronic medical record system, data repository, clinical analytics and population health capabilities. Our Community Services teams creates and sustains relationship with community organizations and agencies and health plans.

Essen is dedicated to ensuring the quality of care for all patients and has been designated ‘Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home’ by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Essen has won awards for its patient care innovations and recently launched Intention Health Ventures to develop and commercialize our technology innovations.

ESSEN HEALTH CARE IS PROUD TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Essen Health care is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically diverse population.

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