Nurse Practitioner - Home Visits (Per Diem) - Harrisburg, PA - Full-time / Part-time

Optum, a division within UnitedHealth Group, has a fantastic Per Diem opportunity for a Nurse Practitioner in the Harrisburg, PA area!

Our per diem position offers the opportunity to work alongside compassionate NPs to ensure continued care for our Senior members,  approximately 4-8 hours a week. 

 

 

   Join our team and find the autonomy, flexibility and fulfillment you seek in your career.

 

The Home-Visit Nurse Practitioner is responsible, as part of the patient care team, for the overall patient care management process.  An advocate for the patients, the Nurse Practitioner will oversee and coordinate total care for the patients assigned in collaboration with the physician of record and patient care team. The Nurse Practitioner will communicate and manage the patients' care across all care providers, family, and caregivers. The Nurse Practitioner will ensure that timely, patient-centered, appropriate evidence-based medicine is provided.  The Nurse Practitioner will also conduct in-home, comprehensive one-time assessments for assigned members.

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Duties:

• The Nurse Practitioner will be responsible for the total care of the assigned patient population in collaboration with the Patient Care Team (PCT), and/or Clinical Services Manager and community based physicians/providers.

• This position is accountable for identifying and developing innovative actions to meet the needs of  patients from both the health care and psychosocial / socioeconomic dimensions of care; as well as taking action for provision of services to meet the patient needs.

• The Nurse Practitioner will be responsible as part of the PCT for patient assessments, risk management plan development, maintenance care, acute interventions within scope, ordering procedures when needed such as IV access and wound care (not all inclusive), documentation and patient education.

• The Nurse Practitioner will share in the responsibilities and care of patients located in understaffed and rural/remote areas of the network and adjacent network(s) as determined through team planning.

• The Nurse Practitioner will ensure that all pertinent and active medical conditions are documented in the medical record in a manner compliant with CMS, Optum and client requirements as well as diagnostic coding.

• There is an after-hours on call team service, however the Nurse Practitioner may be required to do after hours visits based on patient need or acuity.

 

 

 

 

• Active un-encumbered license to practice nursing in the state where the position is located. 


• Nurse Practitioner Certification from either the ANCC or AANP.


• DEA license or eligibility required.


• Spanish-speaking - Bi-Lingual strongly preferred.


• Geriatric, Adult Medicine or Family Medicine specialty required.


• Minimum of 1 year Nurse Practitioner experience preferred, but will take nursing career experience under consideration for new grads.


• Must be able to effectively communicate with elderly and chronically ill patients and families.


•  Understanding of Medicare, Medicaid and Health Plan benefit structures beneficial.


• Comfortable working independently in a home-visit setting.


• Willingness to perform procedures for self and other provider's patients.


• Basic knowledge of computers and cell phones.


•  Familiarity with ICD-9 and CPT-4 coding.


•  Bi-lingual or multi-lingual a plus.


•  BCLS


•  Excellent organizational skills with the ability to multi-task.

 

Optum Complex Care is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.

 

If you want more meaning in your career - as a clinician or a business professional - think of Optum as your calling.

 

By providing 58 million Americans with information, tools and solutions, we are helping to guide them through the health care system, financing their health care needs, and enabling them to achieve their personal health and well-being goals.

 

At Optum, you will perform within an innovative culture that's focused on transformational change in the health care system. You will leverage your skills across a diverse and multi-faceted business. And you will make contributions that will have an impact that's greater than you've ever imagined.

 

Keywords: Nursing, nurse practitioner, NP, clinical, home visits, complex care.

 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

 

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.

OptumHealth is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.