Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Immediate Care-Laurel
Compensation
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The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
Position Summary
The certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Physician Assistant is a primary health care provider who practices in ambulatory, hospital, and long-term care settings. The FNP or PA provides nursing and medical services to individuals, families, and groups.
The FNP or PA diagnoses and manages acute episodic and chronic illnesses as well as promotes health and disease prevention. Services include, but are not limited to ordering, conducting, and interpreting diagnostic and laboratory tests, and prescription of pharmacologic agents and nonpharmacologic therapies.
Teaching and counseling individuals, families, and groups are a part of nurse practitioner/physician assistant practice.
Qualifications
Education/Skills: Successful completion of a Masters in Nursing program or Physician Assistant program. Must have successfully completed the required clinical practice hours of the accredited university.
Certification/Licensure: A current license to practice professional nursing in the State of Mississippi as a FNP or current Physician Assistant license. Also, prefer a current certification in ACLS.
Critical care/urgent care/immediate care experience required.
WORK SCHEDULE: Monday - Friday 8:00AM - 5:00PM, occasional Saturday 8:00AM - 12:00PM
Key Responsibilities
The provider will diagnose and manage acute and chronic illnesses while promoting health and disease prevention in an immediate care setting. Responsibilities include ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, prescribing therapies, and providing patient counseling.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Immediate Care-Laurel at Confidential Employer a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Family Medicine (PA) — ranked against 743 active Family Medicine (PA) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
Family Medicine — Physician Assistant Career Context
Of the 50 active Physician Assistant listings this role was benchmarked against, 54% have no call, 72% require no weekends.
Physician Assistant pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Mississippi is 87.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.9% of Mississippi clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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- No weekends
Living in Laurel
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $184k
- Median resident rent
- $909/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 16 min
- State income tax
- Up to 5%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.