Nurse Practitioner (NP) In-Home Visits - Mobile, AL

About the position

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) In-Home Visits position at Landmark, part of the Optum family, involves providing home-based medical care to complex, chronic patients, primarily elderly individuals. The role focuses on managing chronic illnesses, improving patient wellness, and enhancing overall quality of care while avoiding unnecessary hospitalizations. The NP will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary clinical team to deliver comprehensive assessments and treatments in the comfort of patients' homes, ensuring a high level of patient satisfaction and successful health outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Manage chronic illnesses in a complex elderly population with multimorbid conditions focused on wellness, avoiding unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits, providing patient education about disease processes, improving overall quality of care, and increasing patient satisfaction in the healthcare system.
• Document timely with an added focus on closing HEDIS quality gap measures and recapturing HCCs.
• Engage new patients enrolling in the program with a comprehensive geriatric focused initial assessment that includes functional eval, social and safety assessments, cognitive screening, and mental health assessments.
• Triage, diagnose, and treat patients on an urgent basis in home with an array of equipment and medications.
• Order and interpret appropriate tests including x-rays, labs, and EKGs to diagnose, prescribe and treat within the provider's scope of practice and consistent with the standards of care.
• Start treatment in the home at the point of care.
• Collaborate with patient's PCP and specialists as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), in addition to, an NP-focused graduate degree in a Master's or Doctoral nursing program.
• Graduate from an accredited NP Program and have Certification through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) or American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
• Active and unrestricted State Nurse Practitioner license (in the state where the job is located).
• Current state RN license.
• Valid DEA license or the ability to obtain one prior to employment.
• Access to reliable transportation; if you are driving a vehicle, you must comply with all the terms of the Optum Motor Vehicle Safety policy.

Nice-to-haves

• 2+ years of clinical NP experience in IM, Geriatrics, Primary Care, ED, Urgent Care, or similar setting.
• Awareness about UM standards, NCQA requirements, CMS guidelines, Milliman guidelines, and Medicaid/Medicare contracts and benefit systems.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off plus 9 Paid Holidays
• Medical Plan options along with options for a Health Spending Account or a Health Saving account
• Dental, Vision, Life & AD&D Insurance along with Short-term disability and Long-Term Disability coverage
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Education Reimbursement
• Employee Discounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Voluntary Benefits (pet insurance, legal insurance, LTC Insurance, etc.)