Remote Family Nurse Practitioner (Field visits required)
Company: Molina Healthcare
Location: San Bernardino
Posted on: November 20, 2023
Job Description:
The Care Connections Nurse Practitioners focus on screening and
preventive primary care services delivered in the home, community,
and nursing facility settings. Provides needed care in the
environment that patients feel most comfortable and are most
receptive including home, nursing facilities, and "pop up"
clinic.
The Nurse Practitioner will be required to work primarily in
non-clinical settings and provide medical care to all levels of
patients. Some programs may focus on specific populations (e.g.,
adult and geriatric, pediatric, women's health).
Perform comprehensive medical assessments, order appropriate
tests/procedures for diagnostic purposes, formulate treatment
plans, obtain specialists' consultations as needed, and do
appropriate documentations as required.
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Job Duties
- Provide general medical care to various and/or specific patient
levels - adults and geriatric.
- Perform comprehensive evaluations including history and
physical exams for risk adjustment and other regulatory
assessments
- Address both chronic and acute primary care complaints, and
able to ascertain medical urgency
- Establish and document reasonable medical diagnoses
- Seek specialty consultation as appropriate
- Order pertinent diagnostic laboratory and radiology testing for
the medical diagnosis or presenting symptom; able to work within an
environment of limited resources and therefore uses diagnostic
tests judiciously and appropriately
- Discuss unusual or unclear symptoms or results with consulting
physician in a timely manner
- Accept feedback and direction from the supervising
physician
- Create and implements a medical plan of care
- Provides care coordination and preventative care services for
geographical as well as virtual targets who are stratified by
risk.
- Schedule patient appointments for telehealth or in-person
visits when appropriate
- Provide post discharge coordination to reduce hospital
readmission rates and emergency room utilization
- Perform diagnostic and/or therapeutic procedures within his/her
level of training and expertise, and as outlined on the practice
agreement and written protocol with the supervising
physician
- Perform face-to-face in-person visits in a variety of settings
including home, skilled nursing facilities, and public
locations.
- Additionally, perform face-to-face synchronous video
communications using Telehealth platform based on business need and
leadership direction
- Order bulk laboratory orders to target specific populations of
member.
- Perform alternating on-call coverage to triage any urgent lab
results and develop appropriate plan of care
- Participate in community-based "Pop Up Clinics" as way of
building relationship with community while addressing gaps in
health care
- Drive up to 120 miles a day on a regular basis. There may be
drives beyond 120 miles as part of Extended Mileage Special Project
days.
- Obtain cross state license in other states besides home state
based on business need.
- Collaborate with fellow nurse practitioners to develop best
practices to efficiently and effectively carry out work
duties
- Actively participate in regional meetings
- Prescribe medications as appropriate
- Remain knowledgeable on current therapies
- Perform timely documentation in medical records in an
electronic medical record computer system
- Engage in practices constituting the practice of medicine in
collaboration with and under the medical direction and supervision
of a licensed physician to the degree required by state laws. May
also function as and perform all duties reasonably expected and
assigned to an RN such medication administration.
- Work as a partner with supervising physician. The NP is
responsible for initiating collaboration, as it is needed.
- The NP is responsible for knowing when a patient needs
physician oversight and when the patient's medical condition may be
beyond the scope of knowledge of the NP.
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JOB QUALIFICATIONS
-Master's degree in family health from accredited nursing
program
-REQUIRED -EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
-Experience in chronic disease management and preventative care
-REQUIRED -LICENSE, -CERTIFICATION, -ASSOCIATION:
- Completion of Nurse Practitioner program at the master's level,
with an active and unrestricted national certification from one of
the following organizations: American Academy of Nurse
Practitioners; American Nurses Credentialing Center
- Current state-issued license to practice as a Family Nurse
Practitioner
- Current Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional
certification
- Current unrestricted driver's license
PREFERRED -EXPERIENCE:
- 3-5-year experience as a Registered Nurse and/or Nurse
Practitioner, ideally in a home health, community health, or public
health setting
- Previous experience in home health as a licensed clinician,
especially in management of chronic conditions
- Experience with underserved populations facing socioeconomic
barriers to health care
- Fluency in a language in addition to English is plus
- Immunization and phlebotomy skills
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To all current Molina employees: If you are interested in applying
for this position, please apply through the intranet job
listing.
Molina Healthcare offers a competitive benefits and compensation
package. Molina Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)
M/F/D/V.
Pay Range: $92,473 - $180,323 a year*
*Actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic
location, work experience, education and/or skill level.
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Same Posting Description for Internal and External Candidates
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