Nurse Practitioner jobs in Delaware

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Position Summary:

Opportunity:

Provide appropriate care to high-risk, medically vulnerable patients, often suffering from multiple chronic conditions, when and where they need it. This patient-centric,    continuous care model delivers clinical, economic, and human benefits.

·         Mission:

P     Patient Care Medical Group seeks to understand a patient’s physical, emotional, and social conditions to provide patient specific care with the goal of achieving an optimal   level of success.

·         Solution:

F    Facilitation of timely interventions when chronic conditions worsen and preempting avoidable emergency department visits and hospitalizations, alleviating social stressors that contribute to poor health, and comforting patients by giving them loving care and letting them know they are not alone.

·        Market Focus:

      Acute Discharges, Skilled Nursing facilities, Community/Home Care Patients

Essential Functions:

• NPs in skilled nursing facilities and/or acting in Cardiac Program lead position will participate in facility rounds
• NPs in skilled nursing facilities , providing Gap care visits, acting as, and/or treating patient in home who PCMG is not the Primary Care or attending physician evaluate and discuss with staff physicians and PCPs as necessary
• Review any abnormal vitals and labs and make recommendations and/or notify the attending physician.
• Facility providers Review assigned new admissions and their orders.
• Participate in readmission review meetings and provide a summary of all PCMG acute discharges using the acute discharge worksheet and will review PCMG patients weekly with IDT (interdisciplinary team)
• Functions independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for complex acute, critical, and chronically ill patients
• Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient’s age-specific needs
• Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities
• Implements interventions to support the patient to regain or maintain physiologic stability, including but not limited to serving in the first assisting role or working with PCP
• Monitors the effectiveness of interventions
• Facilitates the patient’s transition within and between health care settings, e.g. admitting, transferring, and discharging patients
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members by making appropriate referrals
• Facilitates staff, patient and family decision making by providing educational tools

Experience and Education:

• NP Degree from a College or University and two years related experience and/or training.

Physical Requirements:

•  Standing (1/3-2/3), walking (over 1/3-2/3), using hands to finger, handle or feel (over 2/3), reach with hands and arms (over 1/3), climb and balance (under 1/3), stoop, kneel (1/2-2/3), talk or hear (1/2-2/3),  smell (under 1/3). Lifting up to 10 pounds (over 2/3), Up to 25 pounds (1/3-2/3); Up to 50 pounds (under 1/3)

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to a work environment that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion