Nurse Practitioner

Details
Nurse Practitioner
Setting: Women's Health / Reproductive Healthcare Clinic
Location: Alexandria, VA
Typical Pay Range: $60 - 80/hr weekly pay
Facility Operations: Monday - Saturday, 8-5
Shift: Monday - Friday 8a - 5p

Overview
Clinical Services- Gynecological Care

• Provide health screening such as pap smears, pelvic exams, breast checks, STI screening.

• Counsel patients regarding birth control options and provide birth control including diaphragms and IUDs. Follow up as appropriate.

• Dispensing Mifepristone or Misoprostol under MD orders as per the Whole Woman'sHealth medical abortion protocol.

• Counsel, educate, and provide resources on women's health issues.

• Provide treatment for gynecological problems such as infection, abnormal bleeding, or abnormal pap results.

• Identify non-gynecological medical problems and provide management or referral.

• Review and triage patient labs, in accordance with physician orders and protocols. Liaison with other health care providers concerning client management and referral.

• Return calls from established patients encountering problems or questions.

• Chart all findings accurately and clearly.

• Basic skills: manual blood pressure, temperature, pulse, finger stick, venipuncture, height, weight, injection, IVs, microscopy.
  
  

Clinical Services- Abortion Care

• Practitioners primarily provide non-surgical gynecology care (and are not directly involved in abortion care), it is very important that every employee in our practice be pro-choice and fully empathetic to the women and families who receive abortion care at our facility.
• Providers with conflicts about abortion will not be good candidates
• Ultrasound, surgical set up or assistant, aftercare (recovery room) during surgical abortion
• Potential for laminaria insertion or provision of Mifepristone under physician delegation and supervision.
• Perform follow up visits for patients experiencing post-abortion problems.

Health Promotion

• Act as a resource for local area women and other community area providers.

• Provide training and education to staff and nurses, as appropriate.

• Work with the Quality Assurance team to initiate improvements in protocols, educational materials, internal forms/paperwork, and patient care.

• Coordinating travel arrangements

• Planning/scheduling conference calls and meetings

• Creating and maintaining files and records for historical and informational reference

• Maintaining a high level of discretion and confidentiality while maintaining accurate, current and accessible administrative files.

Skills/Qualifications

• Possess a VA state license as a Nurse Practitioner.

• Prescriptive authority preferred.

• Certification in colposcopy, training in IUD insertion, and Nexplanon a plus

• Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner, or relevant experience preferred.