Nurse Practitioner

Company: WellBe Senior Medical
Location: White Plains
Posted on: October 10, 2021

Job Description:

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES 

• Practices the WellBe mission: To help our patients lead healthier, meaningful lives by delivering the most Complete Care.
• Partners with other clinicians in the “Care Community managing the health and wellbeing of patients living in their homes.
• Responsible engaging attributed patient into WellBe program
• Provides primary care to patients in the home
• Facilitates staff, patient, and family decision making by providing educational resources.
• Performs initial patient screenings/physical examinations creates appropriate assessment/plan
• Addresses urgent care needs of the patients as needed
• Collaborates with community team to complete care assessment
• Orders, interprets, and analyzes diagnostic tests and determine the need for follow-up appointments and further treatment options
• Prescribes and manage medications and treatments as appropriate, including but not limited to psychopharmacological agents
• Updates patient records and check records for accuracy at each patient appointment
• Delivers quality care while maintaining all company metrics pertaining to appropriate documentation/coding, HEDIS measures, engagement of patients, and managing medical expense.
• Serves as a resource for patients in delivering ongoing care information, counseling and guidance for any patients with critical conditions
• Refer to internal/external resources as appropriate such as WellBe behavioral health protocols
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team and participate in regularly scheduled team meetings
• Maintain required licensure and certification
• Deliver palliative care, and when needed, end of life care to patients and families
• Facilitates family meetings with WellBe community team, to help with complicated family dynamics and goals of care
• Other tasks needed to accomplish team’s objectives/goals 

Educational/ Experience Requirements:

• Minimum Master’s Degree in Nursing
• Valid nurse practitioner or physician assistant license in state of operations & current board certification in your field
• BLS and ACLS certified and an NPI# as an NP
• Have a valid driver’s license, car insurance, have access to a car and willingness to drive to patient homes/patient location, as well as an active auto insurance policy

 Required Skills and Abilities:

• Must be familiar with EHR medical documentation
• Strong computer skills, including Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
• Strong verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills
• Experience in Family practice, geriatrics, ICU, SICU, ER    
• Palliative care, and end of life discussions/care experience
• Experience in motivational interviewing
• Must be able to diagnose and treat chronic and urgent medical/psychological conditions of older adults
• Home care experience preferred
• Ability to make knowledgeable clinical assessments and judgments
• Ability to provide counseling and emotional support with compassion and respect for the individual
• Ability to provide support to members of the care team      

Supervisory Responsibility: This position will have supervisory responsibility.

Travel requirements: Travel may be required up to 100% locally.

Work Conditions: Ability to lift up to 20lbs.  Moving lifting or transferring of patients may involve lifting of up to 50lbs as well as assist with weights of more than 100lbs.  Ability to stand for extended periods.

Ability to drive to patient locations (ie. home, hospital, SNF, etc).  Fine motor skills/Visual acuity

 The preceding functions may not be comprehensive in scope regarding work performed by an employee assigned to this position classification.  Management reserves the right to add, modify, change or rescind the work assignments of this position.  Management also reserves the right to make reasonable accommodations so that a qualified employee(s) can perform the essential functions of this role

Our APCs are critical to our team that provides compassionate care to the frailest elderly who have chronic and acute illnesses or injuries living in their homes. They deliver primary, urgent and acute medical care to a wide variety of patients. The Nurse Practitioner will be accountable for caring for patients, maintaining accurate and current patient records, and scheduling initial, urgent, and follow-up appointments to patients as required. The successful candidate will work as a team with our physicians, social workers, paramedics, and care team coordinators to assist in delivering concierge care to every patient. We offer a positive, upbeat work environment where all medical personnel work together for the good of the patient.

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