Nurse Practitioner

Clinical Services positions in Prospero are part of a community-based interdisciplinary care team of home-based medical care providers to support patients facing serious illness, including their families and care givers. What makes your clinical career greater with Prospero ? 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.

In this role, you will be part of a physician-led interdisciplinary care team to provide primary, palliative care and urgent care to patients in their homes. This is a flexible, team - based role that creates enormous satisfaction for the Registered Nurse as you impact the care and quality of life of our aging population. All the while, you'll be building meaningful relationships with the patients and their families.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide high quality home – based primary and palliative care for patients in their homes through telephonic, telemedicine and in-person patient consultations, traveling to patients’ homes to manage their advanced illness
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to formulate comprehensive care plans that consider patients’ complex interactions between acute and chronic medical conditions plus social and environmental factors
• Coordinate care with the patient’s other doctors, facilities and community care providers
• Have serious illness conversations about disease progression and patient values; lead goals of care discussions and introduce patients to advanced care planning
• Educate patients on topics such as disease process, medication, and compliance
• Create comprehensive documentation with a focus on clinically relevant information for future action, not documentation of episode minutiae
• Comply with all HIPAA regulations and maintain security of protected health information (PHI)
• Extend care and support with the use of virtual/telehealth tools when in person care is not indicated
• Share triage responsibilities, as part of an after - hours care team support system for patients to prevent unnecessary or avoidable hospitalizations and ED visits

Required Qualifications:

• Current, unrestricted RN license in the state of residence
• 2 years clinical experience as a RN in a hospital, acute care, palliative care, oncology, home health, hospice, or nursing home
• Preferred experience in Geriatrics, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, or Behavioral Health (e.g., experience working in a nursing home or with seniors in other settings)
• Highly motivated, flexible and adaptable to working in a dynamic environment; highly reliable
• Strong interpersonal skills to communicate and build positive relationships with patients, families, interdisciplinary team and other stakeholders
• High levels of ethics and integrity
• Computer skills (Microsoft Office) and competency with electronic medical records
• Ability to work within an interdisciplinary care team to coordinate patient care
• Ability to work and provide high quality patient care in a virtual/telehealth environment
• Ability to travel between patient’s homes in assigned territory, daily. Limited overnight travel.

Careers with Prospero. Here's the idea, make the health system work better for everyone. Prospero brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Prospero , incredible passion to serve together with the best tools and resources to help our patients live their best life now.

Prospero is transforming the status quo of advanced illness and approaching end-of-life care – we want our patients to live their best lives now, and we advocate for our team members to do the same. We provide equitable opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of race, religion, gender, sex, age, physical ability, neurodiversity, and experiences; and we encourage all team members to come to work as their authentic selves. Supported and informed by Prospero’s interdisciplinary team committed to inclusion and diversity, Prosperity: A Coalition for Change, Prospero continues to grow by offering programs designed specifically for minority groups to guarantee equity within our organization.

We are a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment .

Job Keywords: RN, Registered Nurse, Home health, Home care, Hospice, Geriatric RN, Geriatrics Registered Nurse, palliative care, home care, Primary Care, Oncology, Intensive Care