Mid-Level Provider Temp NP

The Nurse Practitioner position provides professional and highly trained medical care at the Fort Lewis College Student Health Center. The NP aligns with the FLC Strategic Plan by providing experiences for students to build resilience and adaptability, by empowering students to engage in activities that promote health, balance, and well-being; by providing support to students as whole people through a culture of caring and personalization; providing health education and encouraging essential skills for a healthy future; by fostering a students’ ability to take action for their own health; by connecting caring with resilience; and by providing an environment of inclusion, equity, and sense of belonging for all students.

Requirements

• Makes independent decisions about health care needs of patients within the scope of training and experience
• Provides Primary Care to patients
• Collaborates with supervising medical providers on as-needed basis by phone, personal contact or chart review
• Performs daily medical tasks while maintaining good working relationships with the Student Health Center staff, the Health Services Departments, the greater Fort Lewis College including all students, faculty, and staff, and the health care community in La Plata County and State CDPHE
• Follow the medical standard of care guidelines as directed by their Accredited Board Certification
• Work within the scope of Nurse Practitioner training and experience
• Focus on improving patient care quality, ensuring compliance with regulations, and supporting the SHC department's goals
• Providing direct patient care services, including assessments, planning, and evaluation, aswell as ordering and administering diagnostic tests, and treatment plans
• Serving as a liaison between nursing staff, patients, families, and healthcare providers, fostering effective communication and collaboration
• Ensuring adherence to healthcare regulations, standards, and accreditation requirements, including quality and patient safety protocols
• Provide excellence in customer service to students
• Although trained as an Advanced Practical Nurse, RN skills are continued in the practice as a NP: Observe/assess and report symptoms and conditions of patients, record vital signs, educate patients on health issues, administer medications, provide point of care testing, and implements the nursing process
• Works closely with Counseling Center staff and consulting psychiatric NP and/or psychiatrist with referrals in both directions, and to initiate medications by protocol based on consultation
• Evaluates mental health issues, initiates and monitors use of medications in the student population as needed, with plans for continued consultation for medication management
• Ensures strict confidentiality of patient medical information
• Provide travel appointments to students providing researched data including CDC guidelines for travel vaccines: Yellow Fever, typhoid, and polio, and medications for malaria prevention and traveler’s diarrhea treatments
• Maintain IV skills to administer IVF replacement when needed
• Draw labs on patients and perform point of care testing on them if needed
• Process labs according to Labcorp/ARUP Guidelines including researching correct specimen tubes/containers, centrifuge, use of LabCorp interface within EMR to route and print proper requisitions and insurance information
• Follow established guidelines/protocols to provide safe and effective medical care
• Promote healthy lifestyles through best practice and researched standards
• Knowledge of proper ICD-10 and CPT coding and visits, diagnosis, and procedures
• Practice flexibility and perform other jobs as needed when short-staffed
• Work closely with the Health and Well-being and Student Engagement Departments to provide wrap around care to FLC students
• Strive to use good judgement and reasoning in all aspects of the position
• Demonstrates a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and student success, as well as working with broadly diverse communities
• Maintains knowledge and awareness of digital accessibility including the American with Disabilities Act and Section 508
• Produces and remediates digitally accessible materials in accordance with FLC standards

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off