Nurse Practitioner - Rhode Island

Company:	UnitedHealth Group Company Profile \| Current Opportunities (96)
Job Location(s):	Warwick
Employment Term:	Regular
Employment Type	Full Time
Start Date:	As soon as possible
Starting Salary Range:	Not Provided
Required Experience:	Open
Related Categories:	Healthcare - Practitioner/Technician

Position Description

Nurse Practitioner - Rhode Island-332291

Description

Evercare is part of the family of companies that UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system.

When you use your skills, talent and energy for the patients of Evercare, you'll be able to do more and do it better.

By tapping into our extensive knowledge base to manage care plans for elderly, disabled, and chronically ill people, you'll ensure that their unique needs are fully understood by all care givers. In short, you'll help make a huge health care system work like a personalized health care team.

Enthusiasm. Spirit. Passion. Nurse Practitioners at Evercare give wholeheartedly to their patients. And in return, they experience a career filled with rich personal rewards and true satisfaction. As a UnitedHealth Group company, Evercare has access to worldwide resources and expertise and has become one of the nation's largest providers of integrated acute and long-term care plans that optimize the health and well-being of people who have long-term or advanced illness, are older, or have disabilities.

Evercare's success is driven by our Nurse Practitioners who share an ultimate goal of caring for the needs of the whole person. We invite you to join them in their mission. We invite you to make a difference.

We are searching for a nationally certified Nurse Practitioner to join our team. In this field-based NP role, you would provide a holistic approach to caring for our aging residents in long-term care facilities. You would truly make a significant impact on people's lives in this new and growing program as you enrich your career. Sound like the job you've been looking for? We invite you to apply today.

Key responsibilities of the Nurse Practitioner include:

Providing direct care to aging residents in long-term care facilities
Collaborating with primary care physicians, facility staff and patients' families
Participating in care conferences with other providers and patient family members
Working with the facilities utilization review process
Identifying patients' behavioral health issues
Educating nursing home staff, physicians and administration
Coordination of care for patients

Qualifications

What makes your clinical career greater with Evercare and 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.

Requirements:

Nationally certified Nurse Practitioner status
Certification in Adult, Family or Gerontology
Licensure by the State of Ohio
Proficiency in Computer Skills

In addition, assets that would be beneficial include:

Clinical experience
Long-term care experience
Knowledge of mental health issues
A background in managed care
Familiarity with Medicare and ICD-9 coding

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Job Clinical Practitioners

Primary LocationUS-RI-Warwick

Organization Evercare Connecticut

Schedule Full-time

Number of Openings 1