Alert The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently issued an emergency advisory about an elevated threat of cybersecurity attacks targeting hospitals and health care systems in the U.S. These threats can come by phone calls, text messages or emails. ChristianaCare advises that everyone be alert to potential phone, email and text-messaging scams. If you receive a suspicious phone call, text message or email from ChristianaCare that asks you to make a financial transaction or to provide personal information, please visit www.christianacare.org or call 302-327-5555 and ask to speak to someone from the department or service that contacted you. For additional information about how to avoid scams, visit the Federal Trade Commission Consumer Information website . ChristianaCare is hiring for a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to work part-time in our Ferris School/New Castle County Detention Center in Wilmington, DE. The selected candidate will provide medical management to the adolescent youth at the Ferris School/New Castle County Detention Center.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Provides preventive, acute and chronic disease care to the adolescent population. Demonstrates skills and knowledge necessary to assess, diagnose and treat an adolescent patient. Prescribes medications and treatments independently as credentialed by the Joint Practice Committee of Delaware Board of Medicine. Provides clinical screening for risk taking behavior and mental health issues and directs services as appropriate. Provides care management for individual student as necessary. Follows CCHS Chaperone Policy- Outpatient. Maintains medical equipment and supplies including ordering supplies, monitoring refrigerator temperature, performing equipment checks, monitoring medication expiration dates, maintaining logs. Performs assigned work safely, adhering to established departmental safety rules and practices, reports to supervisor and/or school administrator, in a timely manner, any unsafe activities, conditions, hazards, or safety violations that may cause injury to oneself, other employees, patients and visitors. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS - Master's degree in Nursing with Family/Pediatric Nurse Practitioner or Master's degree in an accredited Physician Assistant program
- Experience with adolescents health preferred
- NP/PA experience preferred
- Licensed or eligible for license in the state of Delaware
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