CareMed Health Solutions is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to provide medical services to patients living in long-term care facilities. This PRN position offers the opportunity to impact the health and wellbeing of the elderly population through quality care delivered in collaboration with facility staff and interdisciplinary care teams.
Clinical Setting
You will work in skilled nursing facilities, providing primary and preventative care to long-term care residents as part of a facility-based team of medical providers.
Responsibilities
- Provide primary and preventative care for long-term care patients residing in skilled nursing facilities
- Manage residents with acute changes in condition
- Perform advanced care planning and chronic care management
- Prescribe appropriate medications, including controlled substances in accordance with Ohio law
- Order, review, and follow up with treatments and diagnostic testing
- Communicate regularly with nursing home staff regarding changes in patient condition and care plans
- Collaborate with primary care physicians
Required Qualifications
- Current, unrestricted Nurse Practitioner license in the state of Ohio
- Board certification
- DEA licensure
- Clinical background in adult, family, or geriatric specialties
- Experience working in a long-term care setting
- Ability to work with an electronic medical record (EMR)
- Ability to manage patients with advanced illness and multiple chronic conditions
- Ability to work within an interdisciplinary care team to coordinate patient care
Benefits
- Recertification reimbursement
- Malpractice insurance