Nurse Practitioner - New Orleans

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description : Nurse Practitioner

Monogram Health is looking for skilled Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants eager for the opportunity to make a difference in patients' lives. The Advanced Practitioner at Monogram Health is a key member of an integrated Care Team which includes a Registered Nurse and a Social Worker. The patients we serve often struggle with multiple serious diseases. Monogram Health is a leading multispecialty provider of in-home, evidence-based care and benefit management services for the most complex of patients who have multiple chronic conditions

Your Impact

Using your skills in this position will allow you to deliver personalized compassionate medical care to individuals mainly with CKD and / or ESRD / ESKD. You will also be responsible for caring for patients, maintaining accurate and current patient records and scheduling, and administering follow-up appointments to patients as required. Your gifts as a healthcare professional are urgently needed. In healthcare systems, the patient has too often become secondary due to processes and incentives that don’t positively impact the patient for the long term. Here at Monogram, we strive to change that narrative by putting our patients and their quality of life at the forefront of what we do.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Conducts assessments, which includes comprehensive annual wellness exams on patients both in the patients' home and in the virtual environment
• Counsels and educates patients and families about benefits and programs available to help them live healthier lives
• Documents items such as : appropriate chief complaint, all applicable diagnosis, past medical, family, and social history, review of systems, examinations, medications, allergies, assessment, and plan
• Responsible for the coordination of care with primary care providers, specialists, and appropriate ancillary services
• Completes all documentation and paperwork in a timely manner
• Maintains quality of care standards as defined by the practice
• This position will not be office-based but will be remote in state in which employed and will need to attend periodic training / meetings outside of that state
• Deliver evidence-based, timely care in a manner that reduces avoidable hospitalizations, maximizes quality of life, and puts patient health and satisfaction first
• Prescribe medications, order tests, and collaborate with patient’s Monogram physician
• Perform effectively, as reflected by improved patient quality outcomes, which will be measured and reported daily
• Facilitates closing gaps in care by educating patients about preventive monitoring and working with physician practices to schedule diagnostic testing
• Assists patients with enrolling to access educational videos
• Participates in the integrated care team meetings
• Knowledge of disease diagnosis and prevention
• Make assessment of patient's health status
• Develop treatment plan
• Implement a plan consistent with appropriate plan of care
• Follow-up and evaluate patient's status
• Other duties as assigned

Position Requirements

Benefits

About Monogram Health

Monogram Health is a leading multispecialty provider of in-home, evidence-based care for the most complex of patients who have multiple chronic conditions. Monogram health takes a comprehensive and personalized approach to a person’s health, treating not only a disease, but all of the chronic conditions that are present - such as diabetes, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, heart failure, depression, COPD, and other metabolic disorders.

Monogram Health employs a robust clinical team, leveraging specialists across multiple disciplines including nephrology, cardiology, endocrinology, pulmonology, behavioral health, and palliative care to diagnose and treat health issues; review and prescribe medication; provide guidance, education, and counselling on a patient’s healthcare options; as well as assist with daily needs such as access to food, eating healthy, transportation, financial assistance, and more. Monogram Health is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and on holidays, to support and treat patients in their home.

Monogram Health’s personalized and innovative treatment model is proven to dramatically improve patient outcomes and quality of life while reducing medical costs across the health care continuum.