Nurse Practitioner

## Description
**Requisition #:**50053
**Status:** Full-time, Exempt
**Schedule:** Monday – Friday, 8AM – 5PM (Work hours beyond clinic hours may be required to complete tasks and documentation.)

• On-call (by phone only) duties are required.

• **Onsite or Hybrid:** Onsite position, 5 days per week
• **POSITION SUMMARY:**
• Under the direction of the Site Medical Director, Long Beach, the Nurse Practitioner will provide primary medical care services.
• **ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:**

• Provide primary medical care for adult patients at APLA Health at its medical clinic in Long Beach and other clinical sites as needed.
• Conduct histories and physical exams on patients
• Orders, interprets and evaluates diagnostic tests to identify and assess patients’ clinical problems and health care needs
• Establishes treatment plans, administers, furnishes or recommends medications
• Documents gathered information in medical record as required by policies and completes charting within 48 hours of a clinical encounter
• Provides health maintenance and preventative care according to quality evidence based standards and protocols related to contractual obligations
• Participates in chart review and quality assurance activities as part of APLA Health Quality Management Program
• Follow APLA Health PrEP and PEP protocols for qualified patients
• Provide medical management for transgender patients, including hormone therapy management
• Evaluate and treat patients presenting for sexually transmitted infection testing in accordance with protocols.
• Provide primary care services for HIV positive persons based on expert guidelines
• The NP will be expected to see 14 or more patients per full clinic day. The NP will have administrative time amounting to 10% of the work week.
• Other clinic duties may include telephone and in person triage, seeing same-day or walk in patients, and providing injection treatments

OTHER DUTIES MAY BE ASSIGNED TO MEET BUSINESS NEEDS.
## Qualifications
**REQUIREMENTS:**

Training and Experience

Possession of a valid California Nurse Practitioner license with no pending or previous disciplinary action from any state licensing entity. Minimum 1 year experience managing primary care patients preferred. Must possess a current, RN, NP Furnishing and DEA license and BLS/CPR certificate. Must be eligible to participate in Medicare, Medi-Cal, F-PACT and other federal health programs. Experience working with electronic health records required, eClinicalWorks preferred. Bilingual English-Spanish is a plus.

Knowledge of

Experience with management of HIV positive persons and/or LGBTQIA+ persons preferred.

Ability to

On-call duties by phone only are required.

**WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:**

This is primarily an office position that requires only occasional bending, reaching, stooping, lifting and moving of office materials weighing 25 pounds or less. The position requires daily use of a personal computer and requires entering, viewing, and revising text and graphics on the computer terminal and on paper.

**SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:**

Must possess a valid California driver’s license; proof of auto liability insurance; and have the use of a personal vehicle for work related purposes. COVID vaccination and booster required or medical/religious exemption.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.