Telehealth Nurse Practitioner – After Hours Urgent Care

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Telehealth Nurse Practitioner providing after-hours virtual urgent care for ChenMed’s senior patients. Assessing, treating, and documenting patients through video and telephone consultations.

Responsibilities:

  • Provide diagnostic patient care primarily through virtual remote consultation by video conference or telephone
  • Serve as the dispositional authority for after-hours and weekend clinical calls
  • Assess, diagnose, treat, and document patients' physical and psychosocial health status
  • Assess acute and non-acute clinical problems and perform/document physical evaluations and patient histories
  • Analyze patient data and develop, document, and implement patient management plans
  • Provide health education, physician referrals, case management referrals, and patient/family counseling
  • Evaluate the need for immediate nursing intervention, consultation, or referral and facilitate care
  • Plan patient care based on patient population knowledge and protocols
  • Advocate for patients and consider cultural background, understanding, personality, and support systems
  • Collect and analyze comprehensive and focused health data for patients and families
  • Confer with PCPs and other medical providers to report health data and ensure guideline compliance
  • Consult with patients and families on health outcomes and positive health habits
  • Lead efforts to achieve optimal patient outcomes through telemedicine
  • Collaborate with on-call PCPs and implement protocols to achieve expected outcomes
  • Document assessments, interventions, and progress in an understandable and translatable format
  • Enhance telehealth practices and systems using program effectiveness data
  • Communicate through varied formats, tools, and technologies to deliver care across the continuum
  • Use resources to provide safe, effective, and financially responsible services
  • Provide extraordinary customer service and professionalism
  • Participate in clinical rounds, conferences, risk and quality management programs, and relevant meetings
  • Adhere to departmental objectives, performance standards, regulatory compliance, policies, and procedures
  • Participate in developing telehealth/telemedicine policies, procedures, and protocols with physicians
  • Initiate and participate in quality improvement activities
  • Educate colleagues and trainees and serve as a preceptor, mentor, or trainer
  • Participate in or lead committees supporting growth
  • Provide feedback on others' practice to improve patient care
  • Coordinate services with other programs
  • Evaluate and develop programs with recommendations
  • Develop and oversee APPs during regularly scheduled shifts
  • Participate in service coordination and program evaluation/development
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements:

  • Master's degree in Nursing required
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) and graduate of a school of nursing for Advanced Practice Nursing with certification in area of specialty required
  • Board certification by AANP or ANCC required
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross required
  • Must be licensed APRN in FL and at least 2 additional APRN licenses in VA, GA, IL, KY, LA, MI, MO, OH, PA, TN, or TX
  • Minimum of 4 years' acute care, primary care, or urgent care clinical work experience required
  • 3 years' telehealth work experience preferred
  • Expert-level business acuity
  • Expert knowledge of core job-related functions, practices, processes, procedures, techniques, and methods
  • Knowledge of medical practices to function independently as a certified practitioner and collaborate with licensed physicians and other medical providers
  • Demonstrated record of consistently achieving clinical performance metrics
  • Technical capability to conduct telemedicine visits in accordance with state and federal regulations
  • Excellent clinical judgment and problem-solving ability
  • Ability to prioritize and work under pressure
  • Ability to provide constructive feedback
  • Professional communication and collaboration with physicians, patients, and team members
  • Ability to operate effectively with a multidisciplinary team
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
  • Willingness and ability to travel locally within south Florida up to 10% for meetings and training
  • Availability to work evenings/overnights and weekends depending on assigned schedule
  • Minimum requirement to work three holidays per calendar year
  • Spoken and written fluency in English; bilingual Spanish/Creole is a plus
  • Ability to exercise independent judgment

Benefits:

  • Great compensation
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Career development and advancement opportunities
  • Work-life balance
  • Opportunities to grow
  • Potential eligibility for bonuses or commissions