Nurse Practitioner, Certified Nurse Midwife, or Physician Assistant – Bemidji & Grand Rapids, MN

Since 1928, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota has supported women and men of all ages in making responsible choices and planning their futures. We are the leading provider of, educator, and advocate for confidential, affordable and quality reproductive health care and information across the region, serving more than 64,000 patients per year.

We are an organization committed to creating and fostering an environment that leads to engaged employees, and we believe engaged employees results in satisfied customers and exceptional experiences. Our employees are guided by our commitments to assume the best from each other, ensure a safe environment by communicating respectfully with others, focus on solutions, and work together to solve problems. We treat each customer/patient as a unique individual, communicating in a way that is relevant to their needs and striving to exceed their expectations consistently. Together we create a culture of trust, respect, and integrity for each other and our customers/patients.

We are looking for passionate, dedicated staff who are eager to make positive contributions to their community and to the Planned Parenthood mission. The Nurse Practitioner, Certified Nurse Midwife or Physician Assistant will provide clinical services, including reproductive health care, to PPMNS patients ensuring customer-focused care and smooth and efficient patient and clinic flow processes.

Responsibilities

• Provides patient instruction regarding plan of care, preventive education, and health promotion and maintenance. Development of plan may include treatment, medical or other referrals, and/or prescribing of medications.
• Collaborates with the health care team and other community agencies and resources, as indicated.
• Collaborates with Clinic Manager to meet clinic goals, productivity benchmarks, and assigned tasks.
• Interprets scientific studies based on knowledge of basic research principals; Provides input and current information for the on-going process of protocol development.
• Recognizes ethical, legal and professional issues inherent in providing reproductive health care.
• Prescribe all FDA approved methods of birth control.
• Provide medication abortion follow up or refer patients for medical abortion.
• Refer patients for surgical abortion, prenatal care or adoption services.
• Counsel HIV+ clients.
  

Required Qualifications

For APN’s:

• Current state license as a Registered Nurse/APN
• National Certification as an Advanced Practice Nurse, i.e. Women’s Health Care, Adult or Family Practice NP, through the National Certification Corporation (NCC), or as a Certified Nurse–Midwife through the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
• Any additional requirements for practice/prescriptive authority in MN or SD
• Any additional requirements to be credentialed by third party payors, i.e. Master’s Degree
• Current CPR certification (or obtained within six months of employment)

For Physician Assistant:

• Current state license as a Physician Assistant
• National Certification as a Physician Assistant with the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• Any additional requirements for practice/prescriptive authority in MN or SD
• Any additional requirements to be credentialed by third party payers
• Current CPR certification (or obtained within six months of employment)

Preferred Qualifications

• One year clinical experience in reproductive or family health care
• Experience working with high risk minority populations and bilingual language skills
• Example: High school diploma
• 1-2 years customer service experience
  

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