McKee Medical Center is an acute-care hospital located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.  McKee prides itself on providing excellent patient care, the latest in technological advances and caring attention to patient needs. Since opening in 1976, McKee has been dedicated to supporting our patient's physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. Through the years, McKee has led the way in health care innovation. The hospital's original planners designed all patient rooms as private patient rooms where individuals can recover in a peaceful, healing environment.

With close views of the Rocky Mountains, and a short drive from Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins, Loveland is a growing town of 60,000 with an enviable location and an award-winning quality of life.  Living in Loveland gives you convenient access to mountain sports (we’re only 40 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park), nearby universities and a thriving artistic community. Loveland hosts an annual sculpture show and the town’s Benson Sculpture Garden has earned the reputation of being one of the nation’s best outdoor art displays.

The pay opportunity for this position is $ 33.82 - $54.02 per hour depending on experience.  This is a full-time position in an out-patient wound clinic.  Experience in this area is strongly preferred.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Direct Patient Care:

The primary functions of the NP will be as follows, in order of importance:

• To coordinate the daily operations
• To perform direct patient care procedures, including but not limited to: history taking, physical examination, recording progress notes, writing orders for patient care, and performing interventions under the direction of a MD.
• To participate in education and planning meetings
• To evaluate and treat outpatients per established protocols
• To participate in clinical research
• To carry out additional tasks as requested.  To provide instructional information to visiting students, medical residents, and hospital staff with regard to patient care management..

1. Outpatient Clinic Skills: A broad representation of skills is expected in order to share the responsibilities for care, and teaching patient care.   Representative skills include acute and chronic care and the coordination of that care with other members of the health care team.  Physical exam skills include the full range of capabilities needed for adult and geriatric patients within the scope of practice.

1. Procedural skills:  Practice procedures expected of the NP include routine patient assessment, intervention and treatment.

1. Hospital skills:  NPs, under the supervision of a MD, will manage the care of adult patients who require ongoing care in the outpatient clinic setting. 

1. Teaching skills:  The Nurse Practitioner  is expected to have the communication and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with staff physicians, staff nurses, physicians in postgraduate training, medical students, and graduate nursing students.  This is done through direct observation of care activities, formal and informal precepting, chart reviews, and specific procedural training.  Occasionally, formal didactic lectures will be presented to medical personnel and local community organizations.

1. Other responsibilities: 

• Nurse Practitioners  participate in on-going curriculum/presentation development, grant development, and research activities. 
• They are expected to participate in team meetings,   As teachers, they are expected to advance their skills and knowledge by participating in continuing education and staff development activities. 
• Travel (other than to and from work) to attend appropriate clinical specialty meetings will be at the discretion of the Clinical Manager.
• Maintains an ongoing  quality assurance audit program to ensure compliance to applicable standards of care.  Delivers care based on standards consistent with regulatory guidelines.
• Maintains all patient health records according to applicable policies, standards and regulations, reviews records with supervising physicians periodically.
• Demonstrates support of administration and the mission of BHS through positive attitude.

            Assures that all procedures and patient care provided is reviewed and charts co-signed by the Physician according to Medical Staff ByLaws.

Possesses  Nurse Practitioner certification from a program accredited by the state Board of Nursing.

It is desirable that the candidate have prior experience in out-patient services, wound clinic, and EMR. 

Be board certified by the state board of Certification of Nursing for Nurse Practitioners. 

NPs providing services must be approved by the credentials committee and be granted hospital privileges.