Per Diem

Primary function:

The Nurse Practitioner is an integral member of the Obstetrics and Gynecology outpatient practice and provides comprehensive care within her/his/their scope of practice in collaboration with, and as an integral member of, a multidisciplinary health care team. The practice is located within the hospital facility and primarily services Medicaid and the underserved population. One of the clinical responsibilities for this position is as a partner in the Jefferson Latina Clinic, a clinic on Tuesday afternoons that serves primarily uninsured Spanish-speaking pregnant patients. The provider would see patients in collaboration with the physician and care coordination team."

Duties and responsibilities:

• Independently conduct patient visits in the outpatient office
• Evaluate and treat patients within the APP’s scope of practice including prenatal, postpartum, and comprehensive gynecologic outpatient care across the lifespan
• Order and collect data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures when indicated
• Implement appropriate treatment and reevaluation of patients after treatment
• Perform office procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation
• Complete timely and thorough documentation of patient encounters
• Provide shared oversight of patient portal messages
• Perform and/or supervise nurses performing phone triage for patients
• Collaborate with colleagues to provide appropriate referrals for patients requiring care outside of the APP’s scope of practice
• Provide appropriate patient teaching
• Maintain ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team.
• Facilitate and communicate with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care
• Demonstrate sensitivity to patient comfort, privacy, and cultural considerations
• Enhance professional growth and development through participation in continuing education
• Attend department meetings and serve on committees if indicated
• Assist in the education of learners within the department
• Demonstrate professional behavior in patient and colleague interactions

• Master’s Degree in Nursing
• Current Pennsylvania RN and NP license
• Current DEA required/ eligible
• National Board Certification in one of the following areas:
  • Women’s health/gender-related nurse practitioner
  • Family or adult nurse practitioner
• Preferred: 1 year experience as a NP in an OBGYN office
• BLS certification
• Bilingual, Spanish & English required

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Jefferson includes Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health, a dynamic university and health system with broad reach across the Delaware Valley. Jefferson is the second largest employer in Philadelphia and the largest health system in Philadelphia based on total licensed beds.

Through the merger of Thomas Jefferson University and Philadelphia University in 2017, our University includes ten colleges and four schools. We are an NCAA Division II university and an R2 national doctoral university offering undergraduate and graduate-level programs that provide students with a forward-thinking education in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion and textiles, health, medicine and social science.

Jefferson Health, the clinical arm of Thomas Jefferson University, has grown from a three-hospital academic health center in 2015, to an 18-hospital health system through mergers and combinations that include hospitals at Abington Health, Aria Health, Kennedy Health, Magee Rehabilitation and Einstein Healthcare Network. We have over 50 outpatient and urgent care centers; ten Magnet®-designated hospitals (recognized by the ANCC for nursing excellence); the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (one of only 70 in the country and one of only two in the region); and one of the largest faculty-based telehealth networks in the country. In 2021, Jefferson Health became the sole owner of HealthPartners Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We are the first health system regionally to create an aligned payer-provider partnership.

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