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Job Description
Job Description
Overview
Nurse Practitioners analyze and interpret patients’ histories, symptoms, physical findings, or diagnostic information to develop appropriate diagnoses.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Diagnoses or treats acute health care problems, such as illnesses, infections, or injuries.
- Recommends diagnostic or therapeutic interventions with attention to safety, cost, invasiveness, simplicity, acceptability, adherence, and efficacy.
- Prescribes medications based on efficacy, safety, and cost as legally authorized.
- Prescribes appropriate chemical or mechanical measures to assist offenders to improve behaviors.
- Assists with preparation and modification of the treatment plans and recommends to appropriate programs.
- Educates patients about self-management of acute or chronic illnesses, tailoring instructions to patients’ individual circumstances.
- Provides evidence-based health education to the female population.
Minimum Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited school, licensed to practice in the State of Virginia as a Nurse Practitioner.
- Extensive knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities.
- This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- Comprehensive knowledge of mental illness. Comprehensive knowledge of current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) diagnostic criteria.
- Knowledge of professional and ethical standards of practice and interventions appropriate for the assigned population.
- Ability to function effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team and to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prefer experience working in a Correctional Environment.
- Prefer experience treating in a public health care setting.
- Special Requirements
Benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Family & Personal Time
- Sick Time
- Deferred Compensation
- Long & Short-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
- Education Assistance
- Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness
- Employee Discount Program
- Telework & Alternate Work Schedules
- Affordable Health Insurance
- Flexible Benefits Program (Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
- Free Basic Group Life Insurance
- Optional Life Insurance
- Retirement Plan
- Health, Wellness, & Preventative Service Programs
- Shared Savings Program
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