Nurse Practitioner New

Location: South Burlington, VT

Description: Our client is currently seeking a Nurse Practitioner for House Call positions in...  Chittenden County, Rutland County, or Washington County. 

This job will have the following responsibilities:

Nurse Practitioner needed to perform health risk assessments which are essentially history and physicals done within the patient’s home or on occasion in nursing home or other health facility

• Clinical documentation of acute, chronic, and long-term healthcare issues through patient encounter in EMR system; Documentation must be accurate, high quality, and completed in a timely manner
• Provider will ensure all appropriate consent forms are signed and dated
• Provider will have frequent interaction with patients, coders, schedulers, and supervising physician
• The provider will educate patients and/or patient’s family on chronic medical conditions, preventative care, and medication adherence compliance
• Provider will complete referrals to case management, nursing, pharmacy, etc. as needed
• Provider will participate in clinical meetings and compliance trainings which are primarily web based; however, provider will occasionally be required to attend on-site training
• Provider will not be required to prescribe medicine nor order any lab or diagnostic testing
• Provider will occasionally need to obtain samples for diagnostic screening tests such as finger stick for HgbA1C, LDL, and Lead levels; urine analysis may also be required based on client need.
• Provider will be responsible to review patient records for past and present health issues
• Provider will need to collaborate with the supervising physician and other members of health care team
• Provider must be able to interpret laboratory data and diagnostic testing when available to assist in diagnosis of medical conditions
• As part of the assessment, the provider must do ADL and Fall Risk evaluation, Depression and Nutritional Health Screening, BMI evaluation, and medication reconciliation Performs other duties as assigned by supervising physician such as perform examinations using equipment for diabetic retinal exams, bone density, etc.
• Assessments will be added to weekly timecards when documentation is completed (using SSRS report)

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Family NP required. Can consider Adult if no pediatric patients will be seen. 
• Candidates must be board certified by the ANCC or AANP 
• Must have active/unrestricted Vermont NP license 
• New graduates will be considered 
• Must be able to be credentialed by Medicare, Medicaid, and other private Insurance companies 
• Must have use of own car with adequate automobile insurance  
• Must have home internet connection