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Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care Home Setting, Nashville, TN
•30 days ago
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | Nashville, TN Nashville, Tennessee |
About this job
Enjoy a flexible schedule as a Home Visit Nurse Practitioner!
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. As a Home Visit Nurse Practitioner with Optum, you'll provide primary care home visits for the patients in collaboration with the physician of record and patient care team. After conducting a comprehensive patient assessment, you will communicate and manage the patients' care across all care providers, family, and caregivers to ensure that timely, patient-centered, appropriate evidence-based medicine is provided. By building strong relationships, you'll have a meaningful impact on the patient's health.
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Primary Responsibilities:
- Identify and develop innovative actions to meet the needs of OPTUM patients from both the health care and psychosocial / socioeconomic dimensions of care
- Take action for provision of services to meet the patient needs
- Conduct comprehensive physical assessments
- May be required to develop risk management plans, provide maintenance care and acute interventions within scope
- May conduct procedures such as IV access and wound care (not all inclusive)
- Provide patient education and complete CMS compliant documentation in an EMR
- Ensure all pertinent and active medical conditions are documented in the medical record in a manner compliant with CMS, OPTUM and client requirements
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- Active, un-encumbered license to practice nursing in the state of assignment or ability to obtain
- Nurse Practitioner Certification from either the ANCC or AANP or ability to obtain
- Minimum of 1 year experience preferred
- 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
- Basic knowledge of computers and cell phones
- Familiarity with ICD-9 and CPT-4 coding
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certification
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to multi-task
- DEA License or the ability to obtain
- Required participation in the Patient Care Team on-call schedule
Preferred Qualifications:
- Geriatric or adult medicine specialty
- Bi-lingual or multi-lingual
Optum helps nearly 60 million Americans live their lives to the fullest by educating them about their symptoms, conditions and treatments; helping them to navigate the system, finance their health care needs and stay on track with their health goals. No other business touches so many lives in such a positive way. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation & Performance.
Already Fortune 14, we are totally focused on innovation and change. We work a little harder. We aim a little higher. We expect more from ourselves and each other. And at the end of the day, we're doing a lot of good.
Through our family of businesses and a lot of inspired individuals, we're building a high-performance health care system that works better for more people in more ways than ever. Now we're looking to reinforce our team with people who are decisive, brilliant - and built for speed.
Come to UnitedHealth Group, and share your ideas and your passion for doing more. We have roles that will fit your skills and knowledge. We have diverse opportunities that will fit your dreams.
Already Fortune 14, we are totally focused on innovation and change. We work a little harder. We aim a little higher. We expect more from ourselves and each other. And at the end of the day, we're doing a lot of good.
Through our family of businesses and a lot of inspired individuals, we're building a high-performance health care system that works better for more people in more ways than ever. Now we're looking to reinforce our team with people who are decisive, brilliant - and built for speed.
Come to UnitedHealth Group, and share your ideas and your passion for doing more. We have roles that will fit your skills and knowledge. We have diverse opportunities that will fit your dreams.
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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