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Nurse Practitioner - House Calls - Per Diem - Dona Ana, Las Cruces, NM
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | Las Cruces, NM Las Cruces, New Mexico |
About this job
Enjoy a flexible schedule!
Serving millions of Medicare and Medicaid patients, Optum is the nation's largest health and wellness business and a vibrant, growing member of the UnitedHealth Group family. We're also the career home for Nurse Practitioners who bring compassion and passion, energy and focus to their work every day.
This is your opportunity to join a group of professionals and clinicians who are working to improve health care for people over 50. Every day, we're collaborating to improve the health and well-being of the fastest growing segment of our nation's population. And we're doing it with an intense amount of dedication.
Here, you will discover a culture that grows through challenge, that evolves by being flexible, that succeeds by staying true to our mission to make health care work effectively and efficiently for seniors. Put your best to work for us, and discover extraordinary opportunities for growth.
House Calls Nurse Practitioners conduct in-home health assessments on enrolled Medicare Advantage members within a geographic area of responsibility. While the average visit is 45-60 minutes, the nature of the House Calls visit can vary and could include performing an annual health assessment, a post discharge visit, or visiting more complex members more than once per year.
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In this position, you will conduct in-home health assessments on enrolled Medicare Advantage members within a geographic area of responsibility. Your average visit will take 45-60 minutes and could include performing an annual health assessment, a post discharge visit, or visiting more complex members more than once per year.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Conduct in-home assessments on health plan members
- Review patient's past medical history and formulate a list of current and past medical conditions using clinical knowledge and judgment and the findings of your assessment
- Review current symptoms and identify diagnoses to be used in care management and active medical management of treatment
- Physical examination, medication review, and depression screening
- Check vitals, conduct a physical exam that includes monofilament test, urine dipstick, and foot exam (as appropriate)
- Communicate findings in your assessment that will be used to inform the PCP of potential gaps in care
- Educate members on topics such as disease process, medication, and compliance
- Comply with all HIPAA regulations and maintain security of protected health information (PHI)
Upcoming Event:
Virtual Career Fair open to all Nurse Practitioners across the Nation! Taking place on Tuesday, May 19th from 11am to 1pm Central. This event will give you the unique opportunity to hear directly from our clinical leaders and providers about what it is like being a Nurse Practitioner within Optum, a UnitedHealth Group company. Following the presentation, we invite you to speak directly with our Nurse Practitioner Recruiters via an online chat. If you are interested in joining us for this event, please register by clicking here: http://.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- NP (license and national certification, or the ability to obtain national certification and/or NP license in state of assignment)
- Valid driver's license, reliable transportation and current auto insurance
- Family Practice, Acute Care, Gerontology, Adult certification or ability to obtain
- Ability to spend at least 1 hour with a member in their home, which may be in understaffed/remote areas, in the presence of pets, or members/family members that are tobacco users
- Ability to lift 30 pound bag in and out of car and up and down steps
- Ability to navigate stairs and a variety of dwelling conditions and configurations
- Ability to sit, stand and kneel as needed to perform physical assessment
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1+ years clinical experience in highest level of education OR experience as a Registered Nurse
- Experience in gerontology, cardiology, internal medicine, or endocrinology
- Home care or home visit experience
- Excellent administrative, organizational and verbal skills
- Professional image and behavior
- Strong communication skills with the geriatric or Medicare population
- Ability to navigate on the Internet and work with personal computer
- Ability to work independently
- Detail oriented
- Dependable and reliable
Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)
Upcoming Event:
Virtual Career Fair open to all Nurse Practitioners across the Nation! Taking place on Tuesday, May 19th from 11am to 1pm Central. This event will give you the unique opportunity to hear directly from our clinical leaders and providers about what it is like being a Nurse Practitioner within Optum, a UnitedHealth Group company. Following the presentation, we invite you to speak directly with our Nurse Practitioner Recruiters via an online chat. If you are interested in joining us for this event, please register by clicking here: http://.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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