Job Description


Summary:
Under the direction and supervision of a physician, the Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant provides professional medical services for AACI Health Center patients.
 
Duties and responsibilities:
  • Provide accurate assessment, diagnosis, treatment
  • Prescribes and dispenses medications
  • Develop and implement treatment plans with patients and other care team members
  • Check vitals and conduct physical and reviews patient case histories
  • Provides continuing, comprehensive healthcare maintenance and medical care to patients, including preventive care, and behavioral and community health care
  • Educate patients on topics such as disease process, medication, prevention, and compliance
  • Consult with and referral to affiliated subspecialists
  • Work as part of an integrated care team
  • Collaborates with behavioral health and wellness colleagues
  • Participate in on-call after hours rotation
  • Document and maintain clinical records per appropriate standards and regulations
  • Participates in team meetings
  • Participates in clinical quality improvement processes including peer reviews, data collection, health outcomes reporting, clinical audits, program evaluation
  • Provides coverage for other clinicians when needed
  • Complete other duties and related projects as assigned
 
Qualifications:
  • Ability to perform the duties described above
  • Masters Degree or higher in Nursing or Physician Assistant
  • Licensed with the California Board of Registered Nursing as a Nurse Practitioner or Licensed with the California Physicians Assistants Board
  • Current DEA registration
  • Two or more years of clinical work experience
  • Knowledge of the principles and practices of family medicine, general internal medicine, or paediatrics
  • Knowledge of the local, state, and federal regulations pertaining to medicine and to community health centers
  • Knowledge of the structure and function of community health centers
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Ability to communicate well with people of diverse cultural professional and experiential backgrounds
  • Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
  • Bilingual in one of the Santa Clara County threshold languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Tagalog, Farsi, or Vietnamese preferred

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