Licensed Practical Nurse - Gaithersburg, Maryland

• Location Spiras Health,Gaithersburg, MD, 20878,United States
• Base Pay $65,000.00 - $75,000.00 / Year

Job Title: Licensed Practical Nurse - Local Nurse

Work Location: Travel to Patient Homes

Department: Clinical

Reports To: Nurse Manager

FLSA: Exempt

Who We Are:
Purposeful, Progressive, Dynamic

Spiras Health is a value-based, nurse practitioner led clinical provider of care-at-home and other health-related services to individuals with complex and polychronic needs. Spiras’ comprehensive approach to care delivery includes a combination of home-based services, telehealth, two-way digital communications, and remote patient monitoring. Proprietary predictive modeling identifies and assesses individuals with an elevated probability of avoidable costs. Spiras Health then develops actionable plans of care, addresses barriers including social determinants of health and delivers high quality patient care in collaboration with the patient’s treating physicians.

Spiras’ innovative multi-modal care approach delivers improved satisfaction and clinical metrics as well as financial savings to its partners, through a geographically and economically scalable delivery model. Our culture is anchored on a promise of full accountability and integrity in everything we do.

This positioncallsfor ahigh performing Licensed Practical Nurse who will become part of a Clinical Care Team, working in partnership with Nurse Practitioners. Together the team will manage the overall health of a defined population of patients in collaboration with the patient’s primary care and specialist physicians. You will serve your community, which includes daily travel to patients’ homes. Meeting with patients in their home affords you the opportunity to develop deep and rich relationships.

This individual will understand and be comfortable with mobile technology and have a deep commitment to exceptional patient care. A typical day may include home patient clinical assessments, telephonic assessments of patients, providing patient education, maintaining patient compliance to a treatment plan, connecting with community resources, conducting routine diagnostic tests, and charting assessments in Spiras systems. This is a personally and professionally rewarding position and it allows the colleague an opportunity to provide health care services at the top of their training.

You will travel to other service areas to augment staffing as needed, with possible overnight stays in target areas. Each day is a mixture of working from a home office and seeing patients in the community. This results in some flexibility in work hours, with the constant focus being patient centered care.

• Travel to new territories for startup and assist other established areas. Work from home about 50% and travel up to 50% or more
• Conducts detailed patient assessment, including vital signs, monitors for changes in status, reports findings, contribute to and implements care plans, collaborates with Nurse Practitioner, provides patient education
• Helps patient accomplish treatment plan goals and identifies and seeks to resolve barriers to care
• Evaluates effects of treatment plan by observing, noting, and evaluating patient’s progress and recommending adjustments and modifications
• Communicates with physicians, nurses, social workers, family, caregivers, and other health care workers
• Recommends assistive equipment and outpatient or home health follow-up programs
• Documents patient care and services in an accurate and timely manner, per policy
• Always adheres to hygiene and safety standards (sanitizing surfaces, equipment, hands, etc.)
• Fosters a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families
• Consistently…