Care at Home - Nurse Practitioner - Waterloo, IA

• Overview UnityPoint Clinic is actively recruiting for a Nurse Practitioner to join our Care at Home team in Waterloo, IA Choose a career that matters at UnityPoint Health.
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• Full time home-based Nurse Practitioner Delivers high quality care, experience, and improved economic outcomes through innovative home-based care services Care at Home is a partnership between a patient’s primary care provider and other medical specialists Hospital to Home provides hospital level care in the home to qualifying patients Post discharge home visits focus on proactive and preventative health management and ED visit/readmission Provide primary care, advance care planning, care management, and annual wellness visits Assess and manage a patient’s acute medical needs from the comfort of the patient’s home Alternative option of care for qualifying adult patients who would otherwise be admitted to the hospital Fully integrated system with clinics and hospitals on Epic EMR to improve care coordination Participate in Call after hours and weekends

Responsibilities

Provide Comprehensive assessment, intervention, education, preventative, and Urgent Care services for high-risk patients their home environment. Provide alternate ambulatory-based healthcare to avert patients need to be seen in the ED, IP, or SNF Work collaboratively as an extension of Primary care provider and Clinic Care coordination team Assist patients with complex, acute on chronic, and serious illness with developing, implementing, communicating, and overseeing the patients’ home-based care plan Collaborates and consults with the patient/family and health care team members Treat non-life-threatening medical problems or conditions that could get worse if a patient were to wait to be seen at a clinic Medical assessments and treatment planning Home medical safety assessments Medication review and supportive management Lab draws associated with medical assessment and monitoring Xray or ultrasounds associated with medical assessment and monitoring Provide the best outcome for every patient every time

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