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(Archived) Nurse Practitioner (NP) - Home Health

Last Updated: 5/28/14

Job Description

Loyal Source Government Services is currently hiring a Nurse Practitioner (NP) - Home Health in Portland, OR. To apply please contact Stephanie Thorn at [Register to View] or at [Register to View] x125 Essential Functions: - The practitioner effectively identifies, evaluates, and addresses disease prevention and health promotion issues of the Medicare Advantage member while conducting health assessments in the member’s home. - This position will be responsible for visiting Medicare Advantage members in their homes. - During these visits the practitioner will do a review of systems, history and physical, limited physical exam as well as any indicated screenings which may include spirometry, bone density, urinanalysis and blood draws. This position also requires that the practitioner make recommendations of care to the member. - The practitioner will be responsible for delivering or mailing (where applicable) collected specimens to lab drop off locations, complete an accurate documentation of all present and observed diagnoses for each member as well as educating patients and/or families about preventive care, medical issues, and use of prescribed medical treatments and/or medications. While every effort is made to schedule the practitioner within a reasonable distance from their home base, some travel may be required. Additional Functions: - Identify specific disease processes and environmental risks of Medicare Advantage Members. Performing designated tests/evaluations including: - History and Profile, Neurological, Cardiac, Ophthalmic, Finger sticks, Urine dip, Height & Weight (BMI), fall risk, venipuncture, spirometry, bone density, vaccines and other testing associated with general examinations. Supervision Received: - Under general supervision of a collaborating general practice physician (where applicable by State Law). Practitioner will be responsible for completion of all necessary paperwork to secure necessary collaborating agreements (where applicable). Company Info: Loyal Source Government Services prides itself on providing elite medical services to the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and other federal agencies. Loyal Source is a prime contract holder on the Air Force medical services contract and is currently hiring all medical specialties throughout the United States. As a member of the Loyal Source team you will have the unique opportunity to provide healthcare to the men and women who protect and serve our country along with their families. In addition to this great honor, Loyal Source provides excellent compensation and benefits. For more company information please visit our website at [Register to View] OUR NAME “Loyalty is willing in that it is freely given, not coerced. It is chosen after personal consideration, not something that one is born into. Loyalty is practical in that it is practiced. It is actively engaged upon, not passively expressed merely as a strong feeling about something. Loyalty is thoroughgoing in that it is not merely a casual interest but a wholehearted commitment to a cause." –Royce JOB REQUIREMENTS Qualifications: Education: Masters Degree in Nursing required. Certification or License: - AANP or AANC Certification - CRNP License Experience: - New grads are encouraged to apply. Preferred Experience: - Experience in geriatric patient care or clinical involvement with geriatric populations. - Experience in providing home health care visits (preferably in geriatric patient populations). - Experience performing physical examinations, performing diagnostic tests and screenings, developing treatment plans. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: - Speaking – Talking to others to effectively convey information. - Service Orientation – Actively looking for ways to help people. - Social Perceptiveness – Being aware of others’ reactions and understanding why they react the way they do. - Reading Comprehension – Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. - Oral Comprehension – The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. - Judgment and Decision Making – Weighing the relative costs and benefits of a potential action. - Medicine and Dentistry – Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and document disease processes. This includes symptoms, treatments, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health care measures. - Biology – Knowledge of plant and animal living tissue, cells, organisms, and entities, including their functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment. - Customer and Personal Service – Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services including needs assessment techniques, quality service standards, alternative delivery systems, and customer satisfaction evaluation techniques. - Problem Sensitivity – The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. - Critical Thinking – Using logic and analysis to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. Work Environment: - Patient homes Physical Demands: - The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. - While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel; crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. - Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Other: - Continued certification as a Nurse Practitioner - Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERP).

Company Details

Orlando, Florida, United States
At Loyal Source Government Services we focus on hiring quality Healthcare professionals to fill the needs of the Department of Veterans Affairs, United States, Air Force, United States Army, United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, Indian Health Care facilities and other governmental agencies.