Nurse Practitioner

Description

Kingsway Arms Nursing Center is seeking a compassionate, clinically skilled Nurse Practitioner to join our medical team. This role is integral to overseeing and supporting the delivery of high-quality care and services for approximately 160 residents receiving both long-term and short-term rehabilitation care.

The Nurse Practitioner will work collaboratively with physicians, nursing leadership, rehabilitation, social work, dietary services, activities, and other interdisciplinary team members to promote resident-centered outcomes, timely clinical decision-making, and regulatory-compliant care.

The Nurse Practitioner will provide advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, care planning, and ongoing medical management for nursing home residents in accordance with New York State scope-of-practice requirements, facility policies, professional standards, and applicable federal and state regulations.

This is an opportunity for a provider who values relationship-based care, teamwork, clinical excellence, and meaningful involvement in the daily life of a skilled nursing facility.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive and focused resident assessments, including admission, routine, acute-change-in-condition, post-hospital, and follow-up evaluations.
• Diagnose and manage acute and chronic medical conditions in collaboration with attending physicians, medical directors, specialists, and other members of the healthcare team.
• Develop, implement, evaluate, and update individualized plans of care.
• Prescribe medications, treatments, diagnostic tests, therapeutic interventions, and referrals within the Nurse Practitioner’s New York State scope of practice.
• Respond promptly to changes in resident condition, helping to prevent avoidable hospital transfers when clinically appropriate.
• Participate in medication review, infection prevention, wound care oversight, pain management, behavioral-health support, and other clinical quality initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with nursing staff to provide clinical guidance, reinforce best practices, and support resident safety.
• Participate in interdisciplinary care-plan meetings, family conferences, discharge-planning discussions, and other resident-centered care processes as needed.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and complete clinical documentation.
• Support compliance with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requirements, New York State Department of Health regulations, facility policies, and standards of professional practice.
• Contribute to quality assurance and performance-improvement activities, including review of clinical trends, adverse events, hospitalizations, infections, falls, wounds, and other quality indicators.
• Foster respectful communication with residents, families, staff, physicians, consultants, and community partners.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Current, unrestricted New York State license as a Registered Professional Nurse and Nurse Practitioner.
• Current DEA registration and prescriptive authority, as applicable.
• Clinical experience in long-term care, skilled nursing, post-acute care, geriatrics, internal medicine, family practice, rehabilitation, or a related setting strongly preferred.
• Strong assessment, diagnostic reasoning, communication, documentation, and care-coordination skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of an interdisciplinary team and build collaborative relationships with residents, families, and staff.
• Knowledge of geriatric syndromes, chronic-disease management, post-acute rehabilitation, medication management, infection prevention, and regulatory expectations in a nursing-home setting preferred.
• Commitment to dignity, resident choice, compassionate care, and continuous quality improvement.