Perm-APRN- Pain Management

Job description

Location: Northern New Hampshire, North of the White Mountains, in the state's North Country region. Facility: Community hospital that provides a range of healthcare services, including emergency care, surgery, and diagnostic services. It’s known for its commitment to serving the local community with quality care and personalized attention. Opportunity: Joining the highly productive and popular sleep medicine physician and selected outreach clinic sites to help meet increase clinical demands for services. Provides office-based sleep services to new and established patients (above age 5; ages 2-5 with physician screening of case in advance), including management of positive airway pressure therapy, medication management, education/counseling, monitoring of medication compliance, ordering diagnostic tests (including home and attended sleep studies), ordering and authorizing durable medical equipment (DME), referral to related other specialties (e.g., cardiology, neurology, pulmonology), and communication with PCP’s. Most commonly encountered diagnoses are: - Obstructive sleep apnea and other sleep-related breathing disorders - Insomnia of various types - Hypersomnia - Restless legs syndrome - REM sleep behavior disorder Partners with other members of sleep medicine team (e.g., sleep technologists, respiratory therapists, MA’s). Infrequently provides consultation for inpatients with support from sleep medicine physician. Especially when sleep medicine physician is not on site or is off for the day, reviews and manages requests for prescription refills (including for controlled substances, such as Ritalin and Adderall). - EMR: Meditech Expanse Health shortage area- qualify for federal school loan forgiveness program Compensation: Qualify for federal school loan forgiveness program Retirement Plan(s): 403b, 457b Vacation: 5 weeks Holidays: 6 days Pro-rated for status of 0.8 FTE to 4.8 days or 38.4 hours. Sick Time: 4 days CME: 2 weeks per year - For 0.8 FTE, translates into 2 regular weeks of CME or 8 days annually. Health Insurance: Yes Relocation: Varies depending on distance of move, size of family, etc. Taxable.