Nurse Practitioner Job In Morristown, New Jersey
Nurse Practitioner in Morristown, New Jersey
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Morristown, New Jersey 07960 Type of Facility: Group
Located in the beautiful community of Morristown, New Jersey, you will have the opportunity to work in a vibrant and diverse area. Morristown offers a rich history, cultural attractions, and a thriving downtown area with a variety of shops, restaurants, and entertainment options.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform primary care in a skilled nursing facility setting for short term and long-term patients
- Manage chronic disease, diagnose illness and medical conditions, and implement plan of care
- Order and interpret lab results
- Prescribe and monitor medications
- Consult with physicians and coordinate patient care with other healthcare providers
- Educate patients and their caregivers on coping skills to handle chronic and age-related conditions
- Build relationships with your patients, patients' family members, and facility staff to facilitate effective treatment delivery
- Promote healthy lifestyle changes
- Critical thinking skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to collaborate with the healthcare team
- Strong clinical skills, work ethic, and ability to work independently
- Adaptability and flexibility to address the fluctuations that occur during the aging process and with chronic illness
- Empathy, compassion and ability to connect and engage with your patients.
- 2+ years of experience in a post-acute care setting required
- Valid NP license in the state of New Jersey
- Valid DEA w/prescriptive authority in the state of New Jersey
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- Flexible weekday schedule with weekday call requirements only
- Paid professional liability insurance with tail coverage
- Leadership and growth opportunities to further your career
- Access to professional development tools, educational resources and CME through TeamHealth Institute
- Stability of a respected industry leader
- Access to TeamHealth's clinician wellness and referral program
At TeamHealth, our purpose is to perfect physicians' ability to practice medicine, every day, in everything we do. Through our more than 20,000 affiliated physicians and advanced practice clinicians, TeamHealth offers outsourced emergency medicine, hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesiology, orthopedic hospitalist, acute care surgery, obstetrics and gynecology hospitalist, ambulatory care, post-acute care and medical call center solutions to approximately 3,300 acute and post-acute facilities and physician groups nationwide. Our philosophy is as simple as our goal is singular: we believe better experiences for physicians lead to better outcomes—for patients, hospital partners and physicians alike.