Nurse Practitioner/ Collaborative with Medical Director SNF

About the role

If you're a team player with a passion for geriatric mental health care, we’d love to hear from you. Join Allure Healthcare Services in the Quad City Area, where your expertise meets a supportive environment to help you thrive professionally and personally.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Skilled Nursing Facility’s leading provider of internal medicine services.
• Collaborate with the facility’s interdisciplinary team and physicians, serving as a day-to-day clinical leader while helping oversee the care of all of the facility’s residents.
• Work with the entire facility’s patient population - short and long-term residents - overseeing their day-to-day care with the assistance of the facility’s nursing staff and guidance from the facility’s medical directors and attending physicians.
• Provide types of care, including but not limited to:
  • Be comfortable and proficient with documentation and CPT coding
  • Evaluation of new-admission visits
  • Coordination of discharge visits
  • Monthly stability visits for long term residents
  • Evaluations for patients exhibiting changes in condition
  • Advanced Care Planning
• Other Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Provide comprehensive health assessments, differential diagnosis, and prescribe treatments under the protocol in the direct management of acute and chronic illness and disease
  • Prescribe all necessary medications and treatments
  • Perform comprehensive physical examinations of patients
  • Develop and implement patient management policies and procedures
  • Facilitate referrals to other healthcare professionals and medical facilities
  • Communicate with attending physicians and/or specialists regarding patient care

Requirements

• Licensure / Certification / Registration: Advanced Practice Licensure (APN) with an applicable state license
• Must have an active license and DEA #
• Previous experience in nursing or other medical fields
• Minimum one-year experience in a Skilled Nursing setting (preferred)
• Ability to build rapport with patients and their loved ones
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong leadership experience with emphasis on teamwork in a healthcare setting

Education

• Master’s degree required