JOB DESCRIPTION
Arizona Priority Care Plus is looking for a full-time Nurse Practitioner to join our team in Phoenix!
Arizona Priority Care Plus (AzPCP) is a physician owned medical group and accountable care organization (ACO) that emphasizes the role of the Primary Care Physician as a means of delivering affordable, quality health care to patients of various health insurance companies.
AzPCP now has two outpatient care centers in the valley – Gilbert & Phoenix (I-17 & Dunlap).
The AzPCP outpatient care centersare committed to providing a high level of outpatient care to patients in our Plans. AzPCP believes that intensified care management of the frail elderly and the chronic disease patient will improve the quality of care and health status of our seniors. Serving as a link between the hospital and the PCP, the AzPCP Care Center is an innovative care environment equipped to deliver high level medical care integrating care coordination and services to support our community-based PCP’s.
Immediate Care Nurse Practitioner
- Responsible for the treatment of acute, chronic and long-term healthcare issues.
- Effectively identifies, evaluates and addresses disease prevention and health promotion issues of the population in the practice while administering quality care.
- Documents all diagnoses with the highest degree of specificity, ensuring that all aspects of disease progression and manifestation are documented annually.
- Attends to the frail elderly and chronically ill experiencing episodes of acute exacerbation and monitors disease progression.
- Accepts same day/next day or urgent appointments for patients discharged from the acute setting in need of intensified physician or case management services to ensure acute episode has resolved and the patient is not readmitted.
- Communicates all services provided in the AzPCP Care Center with the patient’s Primary Care Physician. Discharge plan for continuing care management is developed and communicated to ensure continuity of care.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Detailed knowledge of chronic disease management programs and services. Supervisory experience, organizational skills and excellent communication abilities are necessary.
- Knowledge of insurance/managed care processes is required, along with knowledge of appropriate scope of end of life programs.
- A high level of diplomacy and creative problem-solving, priority-setting, and critical-thinking skills are necessary for operations in the outpatient clinic.
- Ability to treat the acutely ill in an outpatient setting offering hydration, IV antibiotics, wound care and other services.
- Experience with the management of Medicare and Medicaid populations.
JOB SNAPSHOT
Employment TypeFull-Time
Job TypeHealth Care, Nurse
Education4 Year Degree
ExperienceAt least 3 year(s)
Manages OthersNo
RelocationNo
IndustryHealthcare - Health Services, Managed Care
Required TravelNot Specified
Job IDNP 12-2-13
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