Legacy Care Medical is a multiple provider practice with four office locations in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. Legacy Care Medical (FQHC Look- A-Like) is a remarkable medical practice committed to offering the communities it serves high quality, affordable and respectful care. We provide primary care for pediatric, OB/GYNE and family practice patients. The Advanced Nurse Practitioner position will be working in our Hanover Park clinic.

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Responsibilities

• Take, evaluate, and record medical histories.

• Perform physical examinations required to evaluate medical problems.

• Perform health maintenance for well patients, including administering or supervising immunizations.

• Treat problems within the scope of competence and exercise judgment on problems requiring consultation, referral, or evaluation.

• Manage illnesses

• Collect specimens for pathological examinations

• Prescribe medication as determined by the formulary and best practice

• Counsel patients on medical problems, use of medications, expected effects of treatments, diet, and other health maintenance matters.

• Counsel family planning, including prescribing of oral contraceptives

• Manage behavioral or psychosocial problems including crisis intervention and short-term individual and family counseling

• Order and interpret appropriate laboratory studies, x-rays, electrocardiograms, and other special examinations

• Analyze and interpret data, formulate diagnoses and problem lists, and establish plans for the management of health problems

• Initiate consultation requests to specialists and other health professionals including physical therapists, occupational therapists and dietitians

• Participate, record, respond and acknowledge the On-Call phone system

• Participate and perform all skills and duties for the hospital rounding schedule (refer to Employment Agreement)

• Maintain all CME (continuing medical education) required

• Have a method of transportation to travel when requested

 

Knowledge

• Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing systems, filing and records management systems, forms, and other office procedures 

• Knowledge of computer hardware and software, including applications and clinical programming

• Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar

• Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services including needs assessment techniques, quality service standards, and customer satisfaction evaluation techniques

• Knowledge of the CDC immunization schedule, preparation and timely disposal, and safe use of vaccines, needles and syringes

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Abilities and Skills

• Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.

• Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.,) in its most difficult phases.

• Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.

• Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.

• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.

• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public

• Ability to demonstrate collaborative teamwork skills

• Listens, reads and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words, sentences, pictures, verbal, and letters

• The ability to communicate information and ideas verbally and written so others understand

• Correctly follow a given rule or set of rules in order to arrange things or actions in a certain order. The things or actions can include numbers, letters, words, pictures, procedures, sentences, and mathematical or logical operations.

• Apply general rules to specific problems to come up with logical answers.

• The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures

• Time management

• Working with new material or information to grasp its implications

• The ability to teach others

• Ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with the body, arms, and/or legs

• Concentrate and not be distracted while performing a task over a period of time

• Exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects

• The ability to efficiently shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources)

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License​

• Nursing License Required

• Active Nurse Practitioner License

• Active Board Certification

• Active BLS Certification

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Experience

• Five or more years of APN experience preferred

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Language

• English

• Spanish (Preferred)

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Job Type: Full-time (40 hours)  

 

Benefits

• Health Insurance

• Dental insurance

• Disability insurance

• Flexible schedule

• Life insurance

• Loan repayment program

• Malpractice Insurance

• Vision Insurance

• PTO

• Unpaid Time Off

• Holiday Pay

 

Pay Range: From $97,000.00 per year

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Supplemental Pay Types

• Bonus opportunities

• Breakdown pay

• Completion bonus

• Double time pay

• Hourly bonus

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Weekly Schedule:​

• 4x10

• Monday to Friday

• Weekends as needed

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Supplemental Schedule:

• On Call