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Elevance Health Family Nurse Practitioner – Paragon Healthcare in SUGAR LAND, Texas
Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)– Paragon Infusion Centers
A proud member of the Elevance Health family of companies, Paragon Healthcare brings over 20 years in providing life-saving and life-giving infusible and injectable drug therapies through our specialty pharmacies, our infusion centers, and the home setting.
Location : Sugarland, TX
Clinic Hours: 8am – 5pm
Onsite position, Monday – Friday
The Family Nurse Practitioner – Paragon Infusion Centers is responsible providing for the health care needs of patients in collaboration with a physician, through advanced assessment and identification of health states including abnormal conditions, diagnosing, treatment therapies and/or evaluation. Performs care in a specialty area such as cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, rheumatology, gastroenterology, etc
How You Will Make an Impact
Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:
Utilizes evidence-based clinical practice standards to provide direct clinical services for patients within prescribed guidelines and physician instructions.
Acts independently to perform physical assessments, diagnostic functions, specialized risk assessments, and make critical decisions regarding a wide variety of health situations, including high risk and crisis situations.
Acquires patient health histories and evaluates patient, performing physical examinations. Orders, interprets and evaluates diagnostic tests to identify and assess patients’ clinical problems and health care needs. .
Discusses case with physician.
Formulates and documents care plan.
Prescribes medication, therapies an/or other forms of treatment.
Evaluates the patient’s response to therapy.
Collaborate with clinical team to promote patient flow as needed, such as IV insertion, medications mixing, injections and pumps management.
Administer medications, including via orally, injectables, subcutaneous pumps, IV pumps.
Participate in inventory processes, such as receiving and documenting medication/supply shipments.
Work interdepartmentally to progress new referrals.
Minimum Requirements:
Requires an MS in Nursing and minimum of 2 years of related experience with clinical emphasis for nurse practitioner; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
Current unrestricted RN license and NP license in applicable state required.
Certification in a specialty or minimum of 1 year experience in a specialty area, such as cardiology, dermatology, orthopedics, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Certification highly preferred.
BLS certification highly preferred.
Minimum of 1 year infusion experience preferred.
Minimum of 1 year IV insertion experience preferred.
Minimum of 1 year experience in a specialty area, such as family medicine, internal medicine, rheumatology, or endocrinology preferred.
Satisfactory completion of a Tuberculosis test is a requirement for this position and Hepatitis B vaccine or signed waiver.