DirectShifts is looking for Family Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to join their team at Lockahart, Texas.

Responsibilities:

• Assure patient flow runs smoothly and efficiently.

• Follow protocols which provide medical authority when such are indicated in providing care

• Perform complete physical exams and assessments of patients including urgent, emergent and non-urgent presentation

• Selects, orders, and perform tests and procedures to augment physical findings

• Define/document differential diagnoses and list differential diagnoses with most likely diagnoses included

• Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as deemed necessary and appropriate for plan of care, in collaboration with supervising physician as indicated

• Interpret data and diagnostic results for appropriate course of action including but not limited to laboratory, radiology, EKG, etc. in collaboration with supervising physician as indicated

• Performs duties in accordance with the customary rules of ethics and conduct of the applicable State Board of Medicine and other such regulating bodies

• Prescribes dosages and instruct patients in correct usage

• Maintains quality, safety, and infection control standards

Requirements:

NURSE PRACTITIONERS

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing

• Certified as a nurse practitioner with Texas state licensure

• DEA license with no restrictions

• Clinical experience in an emergency, urgent care or ambulatory clinic setting

• BLS certified

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS

• Master's degree from an accredited program for Physician Assistants

• State licensure as a Physician Assistant

• National certification by one of the Physician Assistant certifying bodies (i.e. NCCPA)

• DEA license with no restrictions

• Clinical experience in an emergency, urgent care or ambulatory clinic setting

• BLS certified