Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

POSITION: Nurse Practitioner/ Physician Assistant SCHEDULE: Part Time, 8 hours per week (Tuesdays 8am-4pm) FACILITY: Potomac Highlands Regional Jail, onsite LOCATION: Augusta, WV Wexford Health Sources, Inc. is one of the nation's largest correctional health care providers. Over the past 30 years, our team of dedicated clinical professionals has helped millions of justice-involved patients receive life-changing medical and mental health services.

• Guaranteed salary or hourly rate
• No nights or weekends
• No insurance authorizations
• Patient and medicine focused

Position Summary

• Provides medical services to incarcerated population.
• Utilizes professional medical skills to meet a variety of health care needs, with ambulatory and primary care as a focus.
• Provides a broad range of medical services to the facility including assessment, identification and treatment of medical (acute and/or chronic) concerns, health education to patients, and illness and injury prevention.
• Performs paraprofessional medical services of an advanced technical nature to the inmate population as appropriate.
• Prepares written prescription orders for drugs; administers medication and injections; sutures wounds and provides wound care.
• Coordinates with other health care employees in the delivery of care.
• Orders medications for patients following licensure authority in coordination with company and facility guidelines.
• Utilizes EMR for charting in a format as designated to document pertinent patient information in chronological order in the health record.

Licensure JOB REQUIREMENTS

• WV State NP or PA license required at start date
• State DEA required at start date

Certification

• Current CPR certification required at start date

EDUCATION: Graduate of college/university NP or PA program PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 1-2 years clinical experience preferred.

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