Geriatric Medicine PACE- Advanced Practicing Registered Nurse

Job Type

Regular

Scheduled Hours: 40

Job Description

Experienced Geriatric APP to join PACE

• Oversees community care for PACE enrollees.
• Completes CMS regulatory visits face to face visit requirements in collaboration with the attending physician. Provides clinical information to the inter disciplinary team as well as the physician to ensure appropriate care and collaboration.
• Pace coverage area is 8 counties in Northern Kentucky working with interdisciplinary team and medical director to provide care to promote highest functioning care possible.
• Reviews clinical information, coordinates and oversees patient care in consultation with the interdisciplinary team and other healthcare practitioners. Coordinates care with physician, family members and community partners when PACE enrollees plan of care is outside standardized practice and protocols.
• Reviews and develops protocols for treatment and proposes options for interventions based on the literature in collaboration with the physician.

• Knowledge of advanced practice in geriatrics including anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology and therapeutics, basic nutrition, behavioral factors, psychosocial/family systems, diagnostic testing, interpretation of results and clinical decision making, alternative treatment modalities for aging population.
• Knowledge and discrete understanding of environmental-specific problems, geriatric patient stress, delirium, dementia, and depression.
• Knowledge of medical equipment and instruments used to administer patient care.
• Knowledge of common safety hazards and precautions to establish/maintain a safe work environment for the aging population.
• Knowledge of health promotions, health risk identification, and patient education principles and techniques.
• Knowledge of community, professional and education resources.

Must be adaptable to working in a variety of long-term care facilities.

• Excellent observation, verbal, and written communication skills, problem solving skills, mathematical skills, and nursing skills.
• Knowledge of considerable autonomy, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, physicians/Medical Director and others involved in resident’s care directly and indirectly.
• Must coordinate care with the facility staff, outreach areas (as applicable), family members, and work collaboratively with all physicians involved with resident’s care directly and indirectly.
• Requires travel in own vehicle as needed.
• One (1) year nurse practitioner experience.
• One (1) year geriatric nursing experience.
• Prior PACE, clinic, palliative and or geriatric experience preferred.

You must be able to obtain a state license in KY for your scope of practice.

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