Full-time
Family Nurse Practitioner
Huntsville Memorial Hospital
Huntsville, texas
Under general supervision of a Physician, the Nurse Practitioner provides chronic and minor acute care to patients at the HMH Rural Health Clinic to provide availability and accessibility of primary and emergency health care to residents of rural areas that have a shortage of these services and health professionals.
- Practices within the confines of established protocol per the requirements under Federal law for the Rural Health Clinic Act, under the supervision of a duly licensed Physician in the State of Texas.
- Understands, respects, and adapts patient care according to age, physical, emotional, cultural, and/or religious beliefs and needs of the population served. Understands, respects, and appropriately responds to patients verbal and non-verbal expressions of pain, confusion, emotion, and/or anxiety.
- Appropriately refers patients to specialty services that cannot be provided at the clinic.
- Maintains electronic patient healthcare records in...