Lone Star Family Health Center is looking for a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to maintain and promote the health of the patient that is requiring care. 

Permanent position with 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. work schedule. Compensation and benefit package includes competitive wages, 100% paid malpractice insurance, medical, dental, life and disability, 401K with 6% employer match, and CME allowance.

Essential job functions:

• Provides comprehensive health assessments (initial and ongoing), screening, develops plan of care, and evaluates outcomes on patient population.
• Initiates treatment for patients with commonly occurring health problems which lie within the nurse specialist’s scope of practice by using a systematic approach to history and physical appraisal of patients and/or families through clinical judgment of evaluated data.  Prescribes, coordinates, delegates and evaluates care.
• Prescribes medications listed in the approved institutional formulary as a function delegated by the physician consultant(s) to the practice.
• Monitors patients with stabilized long term or chronic illness and aids and supports individuals and their families during the dying process.
• Plans appropriate care utilizing community resources and acts as a liaison by relaying information necessary for continuity of care to other health professionals and agencies.
• Instructs individual and/or families or groups about health or defined health problems.

Required:

Current Licensure through the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners OR Licensed Physician Assistant by the Texas State Medical Board.
At least two (2) years’ experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant.

Preferred:

Bilingual (English and Spanish).