Nurse Practitioner Cover Letter Example

On my panel of 1,100 adults, diabetes control rose from 58% to 71% in three years after I started quarterly recall lists and ran education visits with our clinic nurses. I am a board-certified family nurse practitioner (FNP-C) with New York State nurse practitioner certification and DEA registration, and I am applying for the Adult Nurse Practitioner post at Schoharie Bend Community Health.

My day is about 18 visits covering acute illness, chronic disease and preventive care. I review lab and imaging results within two working days and call patients about abnormal results the same day, because waiting for the next visit is where most follow-up is lost. Booking the next visit before each patient leaves cut missed follow-ups by half. What the recall lists taught me is that a list only helps when someone owns it each week, which is why I ran the education visits jointly with our nurses rather than handing them off.

Schoharie Bend Community Health's move to nurse-led group visits for diabetes is the model I have been building in small steps on my own panel, and I would like to help run it across five clinics. You ask for someone who works with physicians and nurses and precepts students. I lead a monthly case review with two physicians and four nurses to agree plans for complex patients, and I precept two nurse practitioner students each year through their clinical hours. Before primary care I spent six years as a cardiology nurse on a telemetry unit with four or five patients a shift, which taught me to notice small changes early.

A copy of my recall list template, with patient details removed, is ready to send before we meet. The question I would most like to discuss is how you plan to divide group visits between nurse practitioners and nurses, and who will own the follow-up calls.