Urgent Care Provider; Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Pittsburgh

Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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Urgent Care Monday - Friday schedule 

 

Job Summary

The urgent care provider is responsible for patient visits to manage acute onset of a new illness, acute exacerbations of chronic conditions and members needing reassurance that a trip to the ER is not a necessity. The provider will support long term management of chronic conditions by providing a platform to discuss exacerbating factors in real time as well as potential behavioral modifications which can prevent a recurrence.  The same day care provider will collaborate with the PCP and other members of the Integrated Care Team to ensure the visits support decreasing ER utilization, decreasing hospital admissions, and most importantly increasing member satisfaction.

Duties and Responsibilities  

Provide on-site clinical care to include:

  • Acute onset of a new illness.
  • Evaluation of acute exacerbations of chronic conditions.
  • Shortness of breath without chest pain, change in mental status or new onset hypoxia.
  • CHF exacerbations
  • Asthma/COPD exacerbations
  • Bronchitis/pneumonia
  • Hyperglycemia
  • Elevated blood pressure
  • Evaluation and treatment of a variety of infections
  • New or worsening aches or pains, wounds, depression and/or anxiety.

Education & Experience Requirements

  • Full unrestricted Pennsylvania CRNP/FNP/PA license
  • Acute Care, Emergency Department, Hospital rounding experience
  • ACLS
  • 2 years practicing as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
  • Effectively adapt and respond to a complex, fast-paced, and results-oriented environment.
  • Success using Electronic Medical Records and ability to analyze and leverage their reporting capabilities.
  • Excellent computer skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Office.
  • Patient-centered focus.
  • Familiar with care transitions, strategies for reducing readmissions and chronic condition management interventions.

 Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with E Clinical EMR
  • Experience working with high risk and medically complex patients with multiple comorbidities.

Why Work at AbsoluteCare?

At AbsoluteCare, we serve the most vulnerable individuals in America. These are our neighbors, people who are at higher risk for disease or who have multiple, complex, chronic illnesses. Often, they deal with an unequal healthcare system and wind up seeking basic care from emergency rooms. We take these patients out of those spaces and turn them into members: people who are entitled to some of the best, most focused care this country has to offer. 

We call this “care beyond medicine.” We have turned the doctor’s office into a comprehensive care center. Here, we surround our members with a core care team of doctors, nurses, social workers, and medical assistants who have the time and skills to get to know our members’ needs. We make the most important services available to our members under one roof. This includes a pharmacy, X-rays, a blood lab, nutrition services, urgent care, and much more.

We don’t stop at our four walls. We engage members in the communities where we all live to find the people who need us most. Through these community care teams, we remove the barriers to healthcare that so many people face daily. And it works

Our unique care is guided by our core values of accountability, caring, trust, and teamwork. We call it ACT2.

AbsoluteCare, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or policy.

EEO Employer Verbiage: AbsoluteCare, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or policy.

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