Advanced Practice Clinician

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

• Perform comprehensive health assessments and clinical procedures by completing a physical and psychosocial history; identify actual and potential health needs based on medical, behavioral, financial, and social factors; prescribe and dispense medications to patients; initiate and/or continue medical regimens for new patients.
• Examine, diagnose, treat, and advise patients on medical and behavioral health problems; make referrals to appropriate social or medical agencies; chart treatment records and monitor results; provide patient education and institute treatment plans.
• Perform treatments such as suturing simple lacerations, performing routine excisions and biopsies, removing foreign bodies, conducting wound care and debridement, and casting of simple fractures; perform diagnostic testing such as gram stains, wet mounts, urinalysis, and others; interpret various diagnostic studies such as lab values, X-rays, EKGs, sonograms, and EEGs.
• Act as representative on committees, interagency task forces, special projects, and other community outreach activities as assigned; provide consultation and education to internal and external partners and providers.
• Analyze and review federal, state, and local laws, regulations, policies, and procedures in order to ensure compliance; conduct analysis on best practices and trends, and formulate recommendations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

LEVEL AND TYPE OF WORK AND/OR SUPERVISION:

Advanced Practice Clinician

• Advanced level
• Professional
• Perform the most difficult assignments requiring a higher level of responsibility, applying advanced subject knowledge, and exercising significant independent judgment and initiative.
• Receive work assignments in terms of objectives, priorities, and deadlines.
• Work is reviewed for technical accuracy, compliance to program objectives, and overall results.
• Receive direction from manager or staff.
• May exercise technical and functional supervision over staff.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS GUIDELINES:

Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying. Requirements are determined at the time of recruitment based on responsibilities of the individual position and business needs of the department.

Advanced Practice Clinician

Training and experience for this classification is Board Certification and State licensure as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant and one (1) to four (4) years of experience that demonstrates the ability to perform the duties of the position.

Depending upon assignment, candidates may be required to pass a criminal background check, have a valid driver license, and/or additional training, licenses, or certificates.

REQUIRED TRAINING, LICENSES, AND/OR CERTIFICATES:

• License required to practice medicine as a Nurse Practitioner as outlined by Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) 678.375 OR license to practice as a physician assistant as outlined by Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) 677.515.
• CPR certification required.