Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care
Company: Southwest Medical, part of OptumCare
Location: Las Vegas
Posted on: January 27, 2023
Job Description:
What makes your clinical career greater with UnitedHealth Group?
You can improve the health of others and help heal the health care
system. You can work with in an incredible team culture; a clinical
and business collaboration that is learning and evolving every day.
And, when you contribute, you'll open doors for yourself that
simply do not exist in any other organization, anywhere. We seek an
ANCC or AANP certified Nurse Practitioner or NCCPA certified
Physician Assistant to join our Lifestyle Center team. As an NP-PA
within our Senior Center, you will have an important role in
educating senior patients on preventive measures to keep them
healthy. Work schedules are M-F with no weekend.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Travel to medical offices
- Conduct physical assessments on seniors
- Evaluate level of wellness for seniors You ll be rewarded and
recognized for your performance in an environment that will
challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to
succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles
you may be interested in. Qualifications - External Required
Qualifications:
- Certified Advanced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
(ANCC, AANP or NCCPA)
- Active APRN or PA-C unrestricted License in Nevada, or ability
to obtain
- 1+ years of documented clinical practice experience either in
primary care, retail, emergency medicine or urgent care settings,
or new Geriatric Nurse Practitioner graduate
- Ability to communicate with patients, primary care team members
and management staff
- Ability to make care decisions based on best medical practices
without direct supervision or guidance by a physician
- Basic technical proficiency in the use of computer programs for
medical records or internet search for clinical practice
- Advanced assessment and treatment plan implementation
skills
- You will be provisioned with appropriate Personal Protective
Equipment (PPE) and are required to perform this role with patients
and members on site, as this is an essential function of this
role
- Employees are required to screen for symptoms using the
ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering
your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth
Group-approved symptom screener prior to entering the work site
each day, in order to keep our work sites safe. Employees must
comply with any state and local masking orders. In addition, when
in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are expected to wear a
mask in areas where physical distancing cannot be attained.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Geriatric care experience
- Knowledge of mental health issues
- Familiarity with Medicare and ICD-10 coding
- DEA License
- Familiarity with RAF/HEDIS
- Managed care Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an
entire organization around one giant objective; make health care
work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the
world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide
health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for
millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and
uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group
family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds
and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to
reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high
performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter.
Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular
opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm) Diversity creates a
healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment
Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected
veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any
other characteristic protected by law. UnitedHealth Group is a
drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test
before beginning employment.
Keywords: Southwest Medical, part of OptumCare, Las Vegas , Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care, Healthcare , Las Vegas, Nevada
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