Infusion Clinic Nurse Practitioner - Clear Lake

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**** With the nation’s largest home infusion provider, there is no limit to the growth of your career.
** Option Care Health, Inc. is the largest independent home and alternate site infusion services provider in the United States. With over 8,000 team members including 5,000 clinicians, we work compassionately to elevate standards of care for patients with acute and chronic conditions in all 50 states. Through our clinical leadership, expertise and national scale, Option Care Health is re-imagining the infusion care experience for patients, customers and team members.

Join a company that is taking action to develop an inclusive, respectful, engaging and rewarding culture for all team members. At Option Care Health your voice is heard, your work is valued, and you’re empowered to grow. Cultivating a team with a variety of talents, backgrounds and perspectives makes us stronger, innovative, and more impactful. Our organization requires extraordinary people to provide extraordinary care, so we are investing in a culture that attracts, hires and retains the best and brightest talent in healthcare.
** Job Description

Summary:

** Nurse Practitioners that function within ambulatory infusion centers provide specialty and preventative care, conduct assessments, treat illnesses, order lab tests, prescribe medications, and oversee infusion administration to ensure accuracy of all medications provided and administered to the patients.
Option Care Health is committed to delivering high-quality, cost-effective solutions to make a positive difference in people’s lives. Option Care Health has established five outpatient infusion centers in Utah, with the focus of expanding. We offer state-of-the-art ambulatory infusion centers as an alternative site of care from the traditional hospital-based treatment. As part of a larger multi-divisional health care company founded over 40 years ago, our infusion centers also proudly work alongside our pharmacies and ambulatory suites.
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** Job Responsibilities (listed in order of importance and/or time spent)
*** Initiates, develops, implements, and oversees the patient’s infusion plan of treatment and consistently evaluates the patients progress toward goals.
Evaluates and manages patients and their infusion therapies and follows their course care. This includes all the following but not limited to:
* * Functions independently to perform age-appropriate history and physical for complex acute, critical, and chronically ill infusion patients.*
* * Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests relative to patient’s age, diagnosis, and therapy specific needs.*
* * Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities.*
* * Implements interventions to support the patient to regain or maintain physiologic stability.*
* * Monitors the effectiveness of interventions.*
* * Facilitates the patient’s transition within and between health care settings, e.g. admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.*
* * Modifies plan of treatment in response to changing patient status or consultation with referring physician to establish revised patient plan of care, within scope of practice.
** Provides effective and safe education, using a patient-centered care approach for patient and family to achieve independence with prescribed therapy, when indicated, and ensures care needs are met through active participation.
* Effective and timely communication with clinical team, referring medical providers, practice staff, patients and families/caregivers to facilitate continuity of care.
* Prepares clinical documentation in real-time during visits and documents in electronic medical record of Option Care Infusion Centers choice to comply with established timelines for billing optimization.
* Completes all documentation legibly and applies approved abbreviations and documentation error correction practices per Option Care Infusion Suites policy.
* Demonstrates compliance with Option Care Infusion Centers policies and procedures, professional standards and local, state, federal regulations/guidelines.
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