9 jobs found in fort polk south

Social Worker (Family Advocacy Program): Serves as a Family Advocacy Social Worker, providing triage, case management, assessment, and treatment services for Soldiers and Families experiencing abuse as outlined by Army Regulation 608-18. Prepare case presentations, conduct risk assessments and safety plans as well as interface with command element to ensure family safety. Famly Advocacy Social Workers manage complex cases and interface with agencies to ensure safety, reduce risk, coordinate care and/or provide clinical services such as individual, group and family counseling. The Social Worker will also provide clinical services in support of other behavioral health issues such as interpersonal issues, adjustment issues, interpersonal problems, emotional irregularity and other problems centered on functioning that may lead to family violence.  Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Clinical Nurse: - Assess and revise policies and procedures as needed to find ways to improve quality, timeliness and efficiency of work. - Assign work to subordinate employees based on organization priorities and consideration of difficulty and requirements of assignments. - Evaluate on a continuing basis, all procedures in the clinic for possible improvement. - Plan nursing care in the clinic, in-service training and instruction in all aspects of job performance. - Plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, set and adjust short-term priorities and prepare schedules.

Optometrist (Clinical): As an Optometrist (Clinical), you will: - Provide diagnosis, management, and treatment of all patients that are within the scope of optometric practice and credentials. - Treat pathology and injuries of the eye and adnexa using therapeutic drugs. - Use knowledge and understanding of advanced optometric procedures and instrumentation techniques and their applications in the detection and treatment of unusual visual deficiencies (i.e., cycloplegic and manifest refraction, biomicroscopy, direct and binocular indirect opthalmoscopy). - Monitor the maintenance of ophthalmic equipment and instruments.

CLINICAL NURSE (PSYCHIATRIC/APRN PRACT): As a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, you will: - Provide advanced comprehensive psychiatric nursing care for a variety of behavioral health patients. - Perform intake procedures for psychiatric patients. - Collaborate with the patient's total treatment team in order to formulate a total treatment plan. - Perform psychiatric patient observations in order to identify any significant behavior and reaction patterns. - Prescribe medications to psychiatric patients seeking behavioral health services.    

Nurse (APRN Practitioner/Family Practice): Employee provides independent and collaborative specialty, comprehensive and therapeutic health care services, integrating the art and science of nursing into medical practice. Medical management functions performed include assessment of acute, non-acute and chronic clinical and psychological diagnosis, new patient intake/screening, history and physical examination, laboratory and diagnostic studies; to include interpretation, ordering appropriate medications and treatments, providing staff education, and the initiation of a therapeutic plan in accordance with medical practice. Formats a therapeutic plan of care in collaboration with specialty physicians. Implementation includes major emphasis in the areas of patient/family education, assessment, comprehension, and support.    The incumbent is responsible for the initiation, implementation of treatment plans and education for chronic conditions such as; but not limited to, coronary artery disease, endocrine diseases such as diabetes, hyperthyroidism, obesity, hyperlipidemia, and chronic kidney disease. Collaborates with physicians and other team members regarding patient management, to include evaluating and revising therapeutic plans.    Provides educational management to patients and their families regarding disease processes and diagnostic tests; the therapeutic regimen including medication, diet and follow-up care; methods of adapting medication and treatment to current lifestyles. Provides counseling to patients and their families for prevention of illness and maintenance of health, in order to assist patients in attaining physical, mental, and social well-being. Oversees compliance with the preventive healthcare needs of adult patients visiting the Primary Care Clinic. Refers high-risk, unstable, or extremely complex patients to the physicians and emergency medicine. Performs emergency care as appropriate.    Participates in patient care rounds and conferences in the outpatient setting. Presents patient cases and classes for patient care conferences and academic institutions. Communicates patient management strategies to members of the patient care team. Serves in a leadership position and is recognized as a consultant and role model to other health care professionals both within, and outside, the institution. Acts as a preceptor to graduate students enrolled in nurse practitioner programs. Develops and/or conducts in-service education programs for other health care professionals. Serves as advisor/member of committees as needed. Develops, reviews, and appropriately updates policies, protocols, standards of nursing practice, standard operating procedures and scope of practice regarding adult, adolescent, pediatric and geriatric patient care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary members of the health care team.  Performs other duties as assigned.

Clinical Psychologist: As a Clinical Psychologist at the Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital, you will: - Perform psychological and bio-psychosocial evaluations, using expert knowledge of general and specific concepts, principles, procedures, and practices relating to clinical psychology. - Screen and interview patients. - Formulate behavioral health interventions appropriate to a primary care setting and assist with implementation and monitoring of treatment plans. - Identify, adapt, and apply empirically supported, evidence-based interventions to a broad range of problems presenting in primary care. - Plan, develop, and provide lifestyle classes, to include educational and skill-building classes that enhance health and improve functioning. - As a primary care team member, provide high level expertise in human behavior to develop specific clinical pathways or best practice programs for targeted patient groups (e.g., patients with acute stress symptoms and PTSD). - Provide continuous consultation services for a sub-set of patients who require on-going monitoring and follow-up (i.e., continuity consultations).

SUPV CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: As a Supervisory Clinical Psychologist at Fort Polk, LA, you will: - Establish standard operating procedures for an outpatient behavioral health clinic in order to meet the needs of patients. - Evaluate subordinate behavioral health staff’s work in order to recommend developmental and/or disciplinary measures. - Utilize treatment modalities such as group, individual psychotherapy, family therapy, pharmacotherapy, and/or community counseling in order to provide the best patient care. - Provide consultation to staff regarding policies, work methods, practices and problem solving to ensure efficient operation of the clinic.

Nurse (Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Anesthetist): As a Nurse Anesthetist, you will: - Anesthetize patients for a broad range of surgeries extending from the simplest to the most complex of surgical procedures. - Evaluate data, with respect to individualized anesthetic options and current recommended practices within the field, to determine and discuss the optimal type of anesthesia to be used, and to explain expected outcomes and possible anesthetic complications. - Administer anesthetic by inhalation, endotracheal intubation, regional, intravenous, or topical. - Observe the patient during the surgery, to accomplish and maintain the proper level of anesthesia depth and to prevent over-dosage. - Provide immediate, post-operative care to patients during their return to the intensive care unit or recovery room, to ensure clear patient airway, stable vital signs, hemodynamic stability, adequate pain control and avoidance of adverse reactions from anesthesia.

NURSE (APRN ANES): As a Nurse Anesthetist, you will: - Anesthetize patients for a broad range of surgery extending from the simplest to the most complex of surgical procedures (e.g. neonatal and pediatric surgery, general surgery, orthopedics, plastics, oral maxillofacial surgery, neurosurgery, etc.). - Evaluate patients physical and mental status with respect to anesthesia to evaluate patient's condition and desired anesthetic course of action. - Determine appropriate techniques, drugs, and equipment for use in the administration of anesthesia to all patients undergoing any and all forms of surgical and/or diagnostic procedures. - Administer anesthesia by inhalation, endotracheal intubation, intravenous, epidural and subarachnoid block, peripheral nerve block, intravenous block, transtracheal and superior laryngeal block, local infiltration, and topical application.