Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care

Adventist Medical Group seeks to hire an experienced Primary Care Nurse Practitioner for our Fort Washington, MD location who will embrace our mission to extend Gods care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

As a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner you will:

• Diagnose and treat work-related injuries and illnesses within the ARNP scope of practice.
  Monitor course of treatment and make referrals to other health care providers as necessary.
  Coordinate care/case management as indicated, including collaboration with medical consultants and other healthcare/rehabilitation providers, attorneys, the employee supervisor, and the employee.
  Diagnose and treatment of non-work-related injury and illness that requires limited follow up and fall under ARNP scope of practice.
  Fitness for duty evaluation and screening, including modified duty and appropriate restrictions as warranted by evaluation, unable to work and return to work protocols.
  Conditions which therapy may be initiated by the ARNP.

Qualifications include:

• Bachelors degree in Nursing
  Masters degree, and postgraduate training in a clinical specialty are required
  2 years clinical experience serving as a Nurse Practitioner
  Certification as a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP), and state authority for advanced practice required
  Current Maryland license from the Board of Nursing
  Maintain eligibility to participate in the Medicare Program

Job Responsibilities (in order of importance)

• Diagnosis and treatment of work-related injuries and illnesses within the ARNP scope of practice.  Monitor course of treatment and make referrals to other health care providers as necessary.  Coordination of care/case management as indicated, including collaboration with medical consultants and other healthcare/rehabilitation providers, attorneys, the employees supervisor, and the employee.

• Diagnosis and treatment of non-work-related injury and illness that requires limited follow up and fall under ARNP scope of practice. 
• Fitness for duty evaluation and screening, including modified duty and appropriate restrictions as warranted by evaluation, unable to work and return to work protocols.
• Conditions which therapy may be initiated by the ARNP. 
• Musculoskeletal: Strains and sprains, sciatica, inflammation, effusions, non-displaced fractures, contusions, or other conditions which the ARNP has been educated to treat
• Dermatologic conditions: Dermatitis, fungal or bacterial infections, puncture wounds, lacerations, abrasions, burns including first and second degree and other conditions which the ARNP has been educated to treat.
• Infectious disease: Prevention, monitoring and treatment of infections which the ARNP has been educated to treat. 
• Conjunctivitis, corneal abrasion, non-imbedded foreign bodies of the eye. 
• Any other minor chronic problem or illness which the ARNP has been educated to treat.