State: Louisiana

Your Job Title: Family Nurse Practitioner

Your Specialty: Family Medicine

How Many Years Experience?: 6 years NP & 28 as an RN

In What States Are You Licensed?: Louisiana

Are You Nationally Certified? ANCC

WHY are You Interest in a New Job?: More autonomy.   Working for State of La which moves slowly in needed change.  

What Geographic Area are You Interested In?: Southeast La

Will You Consider Relocating?: Possibly

What is Your Current Compensation?: 85K

What is Your Desired Compensation?: 100k

When are You Interested in Finding a New Job?: now

What are Your Strengths?: Administrative experience in total operations of an Internal Medicine Cli nic with large medicaid/ medicare population.

Started a home health company from scratch through state inspections.

Medical Services Supervisor for hospital based family medicine clinic, ekg, xray as well as laboratory department management.   

Expansive experiential background. 
Dedicated to excellence in health care.
Admired by collaborative MDs (6 from Tulane Medical)

Serve on multiple hospital committees including pharmacy and therapeutics, infection control, as well as numerous planned change projects.

Experience in meeting compliance requirements for Medicare, Medicaid, Managed Care, CLIA, OSHA, Joint Commission, etc. 

Have taught medical coding and started a large billing service for doctors in SW La which involved complete transitions of paper based offices to computer optimized offices, to improve health care delivery in a cost efficient manner leading to increased revenues by capturing missed charges, improved collections, insurance processing with cross over claims for clinic patients.  

I've managed as many as 20 full time employees and had minimal turnover rate.

Hurricane Katrina:  Primary Medical Care provider during evacuation of 150 patients and 300 employees for a month at remote location with poor living conditions.  

Respond to all code situations at current hospital where I am the only full time medical provider for psychiatric & dual diagnosis hospital.

Other experience includes Holter Monitor scanning for interpretation, neonatal and medical ICU staff nurse, dialysis charge nurse at three dialysis clinics (Fresenius Medical Care).

Maintained full time working while attending graduate school with 4.0 average (Loyola, NOLA) and single parent head of household. 

Very adaptable to rapidly changing situations.   Studious.   Lots of CME hours to maintain proficiency

Do You Have Any Special Skills; Procedures, Foreign Languages, Etc.?: Computer skills (Word, some Excel, PowerPoint, publishing, medical transcription and utilization of EMR, billing, practice management software)

Administrative & Management experience

Interpretation of Federal Register mandates, Accreditation requirement manuals.  

Clinical skills highest in primary care, internal medicine, GYN, substance abuse, endocrinology.   Very detailed History & Physicals.  Ability to work well with difficult patient populations

When is the best time for you to do a phone interview? After 3pm to 10pm

How much notice do you need for an in-person interview? My regular office hours are Mon-Friday  7-3.  Could meet anytime after three or on weekends.   Would need some advance 1-2 weeks to take off from work/ reschedule appointments