Primary Care Nurse Practitioner | Great Comp & Benefits | Maryland/DC Metro | Adventist HealthCare

Adventist Medical Group seeks to hire an experienced Primary Care Nurse Practitioner for our Fort Washington, MD location who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental, and spiritual healing.

As a Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, you will:

• Diagnose and treat work-related injuries and illnesses within the ARNP scope of practice.
• Monitor course of treatment and make referrals to other health care providers as necessary.
• Coordinate care/case management as indicated, including collaboration with medical consultants and other healthcare/rehabilitation providers, attorneys, the employee’s supervisor, and the employee.
• Diagnose and treatment of non-work-related injury and illness that requires limited follow up and fall under ARNP scope of practice.
• Fitness for duty evaluation and screening, including modified duty and appropriate restrictions as warranted by evaluation, unable to work and return to work protocols.
• Conditions which therapy may be initiated by the ARNP.

Qualifications include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing
• Master’s degree, and postgraduate training in a clinical specialty are required
• 2 years’ clinical experience serving as a Nurse Practitioner
• Certification as a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP), and state authority for advanced practice required
• Current Maryland license from the Board of Nursing
• Maintain eligibility to participate in the Medicare Program

Job Responsibilities (in order of importance)

• Diagnosis and treatment of non-work-related injury and illness that requires limited follow up and fall under ARNP scope of practice. 
• Diagnosis and treatment of work-related injuries and illnesses within the ARNP scope of practice.  Monitor course of treatment and make referrals to other health care providers as necessary.  Coordination of care/case management as indicated, including collaboration with medical consultants and other healthcare/rehabilitation providers, attorneys, the employee’s supervisor, and the employee.
• Fitness for duty evaluation and screening, including modified duty and appropriate restrictions as warranted by evaluation, unable to work and return to work protocols.
• Conditions which therapy may be initiated by the ARNP. 
• Musculoskeletal: Strains and sprains, sciatica, inflammation, effusions, non-displaced fractures, contusions, or other conditions which the ARNP has been educated to treat
• Dermatologic conditions: Dermatitis, fungal or bacterial infections, puncture wounds, lacerations, abrasions, burns including first and second degree and other conditions which the ARNP has been educated to treat.
• Infectious disease: Prevention, monitoring and treatment of infections which the ARNP has been educated to treat. 
• Conjunctivitis, corneal abrasion, non-imbedded foreign bodies of the eye. 
• Any other minor chronic problem or illness which the ARNP has been educated to treat.

Adventist HealthCare Adventist Medical Group is a multi-specialty physician group with 15 locations throughout Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, Maryland, offering expert and compassionate primary and specialty care.

As part of Adventist HealthCare's comprehensive system of hospitals and health services, Adventist Medical Group provides access to integrated, high-quality patient centered care to optimize the health and wellness needs of the community across the continuum of care.