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Job Summary

The Care Connections Plus Nurse Practitioners focus primarily on urgent and primary care cases, with additional screening and preventive care services delivered in the home, community, and nursing facility settings. Provides needed care in the environment that patients feel most comfortable and are most receptive including home, nursing facilities, and “pop up” clinics.

The Care Connections Plus Nurse Practitioner will be required to work primarily in non-clinical settings and provide medical care to all levels of patients. They may focus on specific populations (e.g., adult and geriatric, pediatric, women’s health).

Job Duties

• Responding to member needs requests, provide a variety of complex care services and coordination to various and/or specific patient levels – adults, women’s health, pediatric, and geriatric.

• Manage members’ chronic conditions (such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia), which may be further complicated by comorbidities and require advanced clinical assessment and management skills.

• Perform comprehensive evaluations including history and physical exams for episodic and primary care services as well as gaps in care and preventative assessments

• Order appropriate tests/procedures for diagnostic purposes, formulate treatment plans including prescriptions in accordance with evidence-based guidelines, obtain specialists' consultations as needed, and do appropriate documentations as required.

• Address both chronic and acute primary care complaints, and able to ascertain medical urgency

• Establish and document reasonable medical diagnoses

• Seek specialty consultation as appropriate

• Order/perform pertinent diagnostic laboratory and radiology testing for the medical diagnosis or presenting symptom; able to work within an environment of limited resources and therefore uses diagnostic tests judiciously and appropriately

• Create and implements a medical plan of care

• Schedule patient appointments for telehealth or in-person visits when appropriate

• Provide post discharge coordination to reduce hospital readmission rates and emergency room utilization

• Perform face-to-face in-person visits in a variety of settings including home, skilled nursing facilities, and public locations.

• Additionally, may perform face-to-face synchronous video communications using Telehealth platform based on business need, leadership direction, and state regulations

• Order bulk laboratory orders to target specific populations of member.

• Perform alternating on-call coverage to triage any urgent lab results and pharmacy inquiries and develop appropriate plan of care

• Participate in community-based “Pop Up Clinics” as way of building relationship with community while addressing gaps in health care

• Drive up to 120 miles a day on a regular basis to a wide variety of locations and neighborhoods within the assigned region. There may be drives beyond 120 miles as part of Extended Mileage Special Project days.

• Obtain and maintain cross state license in other states besides home state based on business need.

• Collaborate with fellow nurse practitioners to develop best practices to efficiently and effectively perform work duties

• Actively participate in regional meetings

• Prescribe medications and perform procedures as appropriate

• Perform timely documentation in medical records in an electronic medical record computer system

• On occasion, may be required to walk flights of stairs while carrying up to 50 lbs. of equipment.

Job Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

Master's degree in family health from accredited nursing program

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE/KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

Advanced computer skills. Proficient with Word, Excel, and Electronic Medical Record.

3-4 years’ experience as a nurse practitioner, ideally in primary care and/or urgent care setting

REQUIRED LICENSE, CERTIFICATION, ASSOCIATION:

• An active and unrestricted national certification from one of the following organizations: American Academy of Nurse Practitioners; American Nurses Credentialing Center

• Current state-issued license to practice as a Family Nurse Practitioner

• Current Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional certification

• Current unrestricted driver’s license

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

• Previous experience in home health as a licensed clinician, especially in management of chronic conditions

• Experience with underserved populations facing socioeconomic barriers to health care

• Fluency in a language in addition to English is plus

• Immunization and point of care testing skills

To all current Molina employees: If you are interested in applying for this position, please apply through the intranet job listing.

Molina Healthcare offers a competitive benefits and compensation package. Molina Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/D/V.

Pay Range: $79,607.91 - $172,483.8 / ANNUAL

*Actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level.