Nurse Practitioner Jobs in Massachusetts

Overview

Join our care team as a Nurse Practitioner and deliver thoughtful, evidence-informed care across patient settings. You’ll assess health needs, develop treatment plans, prescribe medications within applicable regulations, and coordinate care with healthcare professionals. Your impact: Clear assessments and coordinated follow-up help patients and families understand care options and move toward appropriate treatment.

Duties

• Conduct comprehensive medical assessments and physical examinations for patients admitted for detoxification from alcohol, opioids, benzodiazepines, and other substances.
• Obtain medical, psychiatric, substance use, surgical, and medication histories, including allergies and prior withdrawal complications.
• Assess and monitor withdrawal symptoms using standardized tools such as CIWA-Ar for alcohol withdrawal and COWS for opioid withdrawal, as appropriate.
• Develop, implement, and manage individualized detoxification and withdrawal management treatment plans.
• Prescribe, administer, and adjust medications for withdrawal management in accordance with clinical protocols, applicable regulations, and scope of practice.
• Evaluate patients for medical stability and identify complications, including seizures, delirium tremens, dehydration, electrolyte imbalances, and other acute medical conditions.
• Order, review, and interpret laboratory tests, toxicology screens, diagnostic studies, and other medically indicated evaluations.
• Perform daily medical rounds and reassess patients' clinical status, response to treatment, and medication effectiveness.
• Manage co-occurring medical conditions, including hypertension, diabetes, infections, gastrointestinal concerns, and other chronic or acute illnesses.
• Initiate and manage medications for opioid use disorder, including buprenorphine or other appropriate treatments, within applicable prescribing requirements and facility protocols.
• Monitor for medication side effects, drug interactions, oversedation, respiratory depression, and other adverse reactions.
• Determine the need for higher levels of medical care and arrange emergency transfers or hospital referrals when clinically indicated.
• Collaborate with nursing staff, behavioral health clinicians, therapists, case managers, and other members of the interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Provide patient education regarding withdrawal symptoms, medication adherence, overdose prevention, relapse prevention, and ongoing recovery treatment.
• Coordinate discharge planning, medication reconciliation, referrals, and continuity of care with outpatient providers and substance use treatment programs.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential medical records, including assessments, progress notes, orders, and discharge summaries.
• Ensure compliance with facility policies, infection prevention practices, documentation standards, and applicable state and federal regulations.
• Participate in treatment planning, quality improvement initiatives, clinical reviews, and staff education as appropriate.

Experience

• Required: Nurse Practitioner credentials and authorization to practice as an advanced practice provider, as applicable to the role and jurisdiction; strong patient assessment, clinical documentation, anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology skills.
• Relevant experience may include primary care, hospital medicine, emergency medicine, critical or intensive care, pediatrics, geriatrics, behavioral health, gastroenterology, dialysis, hospice and palliative medicine, occupational health, or post-acute care.
• Additional useful experience includes triage, acute pain management, suturing, phlebotomy, venipuncture, catheter care, tube feeding, airway management, and working with children or older adults.
• Familiarity with Kipu , Microsoft Outlook
• Other setting-specific experience may include assisted living, nursing homes, home care, memory care, trauma centers, operating rooms, intensive care units, or outpatient care.

Pay: $80.00 - $100.00 per hour

Expected hours: 1.0 – 16.0 per week

Benefits:

• Flexible schedule

Work Location: In person