Pay Rate: $72 hour $32.72
Setting: Outpatient Primary Care
Patient Population: Pediatric, Adult, and Geriatric
Type of contract: 1099 or Non-SCA (to be determined)
Period of Performance: 1 year with option to extend
Place of Performance
Ute Mountain Ute Health Center (UMUHC)
232 Rustling Willow Street. Towaoc, CO 81334
Work Schedule
- Monday Friday 8:00 AM 4:30 PM
- 40 hours per week
- No weekends or federal holidays
- 30-minute unpaid lunch break
Responsibilities
The Nurse Practitioner will provide comprehensive outpatient primary care services to pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients.
- Conduct patient assessments, physical examinations, and clinical evaluations.
- Diagnose and manage acute and chronic medical conditions.
- Develop and implement individualized treatment plans.
- Provide preventive care, health maintenance, and follow-up services.
- Order, interpret, and evaluate laboratory tests, diagnostic imaging, and other appropriate diagnostic procedures.
- Prescribe medications and therapeutic interventions within the authorized scope of practice.
- Collaborate with physicians, nursing staff, behavioral health providers, and other healthcare professionals.
- Initiate specialty referrals and coordinate continuity of care.
- Assist with patient stabilization, transfers, and coordination with outside healthcare facilities when necessary.
- Provide scheduled clinic appointments, same-day visits, and walk-in patient care.
- Participate in quality assurance, infection prevention, patient safety, and clinical improvement initiatives.
- Complete accurate and timely documentation in the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
- Maintain compliance with IHS policies, clinical protocols, and applicable healthcare regulations.
Required Qualifications
- Current, unrestricted Nurse Practitioner license issued by any U.S. state, territory, or the District of Columbia.
- National Nurse Practitioner certification appropriate to the clinical specialty.
- Minimum 3 years of recent clinical experience providing primary care services to both adult and pediatric patients.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Current DEA registration, if applicable to the scope of practice.
- ACLS and PALS
