Infusion Clinic Nurse Practitioner - Clear Lake

Infusion Clinic Nurse Practitioner - Clear Lake

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.

• 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.
• Identify urgent and emergent situations and intervene appropriately.
• Support compliance reporting through rigorous clinical notes.
• Responds promptly and appropriately to patient requests and questions.
• Initiates emergency procedures as necessary within scope of practice alerting and notifying the appropriate personnel or emergency responders, when needed.
• Accepts accountability for own practice through ethical and professional conduct.
• Maintains all required payer credentialing as indicated by location and service line including governmental payers (i.e., Medicare, Medicaid).
• Provider NPI will be credentialed in association with the Tax  group NPI as related to Option Care Infusion Suites and assigns benefits from payers to Option Care Infusion Suites for revenue cycle efficiency.
• Key role in advocating for operational and clinical initiatives as directed.
• Follows established programs and practice within policies and procedures reflective of Option Care Infusion Centers Mission, Values and Objectives.
• Observes legal and ethical guidelines for safeguarding the confidentiality of patient and proprietary Option Care Infusion Centers information, including adherence to HIPAA regulations.
• Attends and completes required training modules, in-services, and continuing education to maintain competency and professional licensure for demonstrated knowledge regarding the care and management of patients in the Ambulatory Infusion Centers.
• Participates in multidisciplinary team conferences and provides mentoring to other nurses and providers for orientation and supervisory activities as assigned.
• Performs other related duties as directed by supervisor.
• Will maintain active ACLS and PALS certification.
• Will follow all requirements and guidelines of Option Care Infusion Centers.