Family Practice/Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
Not Specified, GA, USA
- Healthcare
- Full-time
- Nurse Practitioner
- Primary Care
- Family Practice
This position is for a Family Practice/Primary Care Nurse Practitioner in Smyrna, GA, focusing on perioperative and primary care management for a diverse patient population. The role requires independent patient assessment, diagnostic testing, prescribing treatments, and assisting with surgical care while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Bilingual Spanish-speaking candidates with a minimum of five years clinical experience are preferred, with options for full-time or part-time work and periodic travel between office locations.
Job description
Essential responsibilities
- Functions independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for complex acute, critical, and chronically ill perioperative patients. Treat on avg. 15 patients per day.
- Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient s age-specific needs.
- Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities
- Implements interventions to support the patient to regain or maintain physiologic stability, including but not limited to serving in the first assisting role.
- Assists with the provision of surgical care in accordance with facility, state, and federal regulations.
- Monitors the effectiveness of interventions.
- Facilitates the patient s transition within and between health care settings, e.g. admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
- Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals.
- Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing educational tools
Minimum qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
- Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program
- Current Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Licensure
- Current Nurse Practitioner certification in specialty area
- Current CNOR/CRNFA (if applicable) certification
- Current provider card in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS); PALS provider card as required by department and facility
- Strong computer skills, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Work every other Saturday or possibly 1 Sat a month
- Possibly be able to travel to the different office locations: Smyrna, Mableton
Experience: Minimum of 5 years OR clinical perioperative experience. 2 years experience in the Nurse Practitioner role preferred. Spanish speaking is highly recommended. Will consider new grads if bi-lingual/Spanish speaking.
Compensation: DOE, plus full benefit package
Reference: HSPPMC-1/8/26-lp-af



