Family Practice, General Practice, Geriatric Medicine - FP, Geriatric Medicine - IM, Internal Medicine, Pain Management, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Urgent Care

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Nurse Practitioner New Orleans, LA

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Nurse Practitioner New Orleans, LA

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Health currently has an opening for a part-time, experienced Geriatric Nurse Practitioner with a minimum of three years clinical experience from a geriatric practice environment. This position will be located in New Orleans, LA. Position will entail working with complex sick Medicare patients via telemedicine and home visits.
Responsibility:
The Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner (APRN) position is responsible for providing medical services for the sickest patients of Health ACO within the scope of licensing, training and credentialing via a combination of telemedicine and in-home visits. The Nurse Practitioner role will require to have a deep understanding regarding what the root causes are for the patients’ illness. NP will have access to claims data from CMS, EMR data, and HIE data in order to really understand what is driving the patient’s disease process. NP in certain cases will need to be comfortable working with a palliative care team when necessary and leveraging all of the ACOs resources in order to keep the patient happy, healthy, and at home out of the hospital.
The Nurse Practitioner is responsible to the ACO Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer for all clinical practice activities and responsible to the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer for all non-clinical activities. The position will implement the mission, philosophy and goals of health in all activities.
The Nurse Practitioner will participate in on-call duties and actively participate in Organization meetings and committees.
About you:
• You are highly motivated and have a passion for creating and supporting sick complex cases
• You continuously strive to improve the quality of your work
• You have a willingness to learn, a can-do attitude and are motivated to succeed and grow
• You pay attention to the details and make sure you are able to understand what is driving the patient’s disease process
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