NP Outpatient Infusion Full-time
Option Care Health

Infusion Clinic Nurse Practitioner - Clearlake

$112,439 - $187,406 / YEAR

Extraordinary Careers. Endless Possibilities.

With the nation’s largest home infusion provider, there is no limit to the growth of your career.

 Option Care Health, Inc. is the largest independent home and alternate site infusion services provider in the United States. With over 8,000 team members including 5,000 clinicians, we work compassionately to elevate standards of care for patients with acute and chronic conditions in all 50 states. Through our clinical leadership, expertise and national scale, Option Care Health is re-imagining the infusion care experience for patients, customers and team members.

Join a company that is taking action to develop an inclusive, respectful, engaging and rewarding culture for all team members. At Option Care Health your voice is heard, your work is valued, and you’re empowered to grow. Cultivating a team with a variety of talents, backgrounds and perspectives makes us stronger, innovative, and more impactful. Our organization requires extraordinary people to provide extraordinary care, so we are investing in a culture that attracts, hires and retains the best and brightest talent in healthcare.

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.

Option Care Health is committed to delivering high-quality, cost-effective solutions to make a positive difference in people’s lives. Option Care Health has established five outpatient infusion centers in Utah, with the focus of expanding. We offer state-of-the-art ambulatory infusion centers as an alternative site of care from the traditional hospital-based treatment. As part of a larger multi-divisional health care company founded over 40 years ago, our infusion centers also proudly work alongside our pharmacies and ambulatory suites.

Job Description:


Job Responsibilities (listed in order of importance and/or time spent)

  • 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 ID and 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.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Does this position have supervisory responsibilities?

(i.e. hiring, recommending/approving promotions and pay increases, scheduling, performance reviews, discipline, etc.)

No      X 


Basic Education and/or Experience Requirements

  • Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
  • Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program
  • Current Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Licensure
  • Current Nurse Practitioner certification in specialty area
  • Current provider card in Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS); PALS provider card as required by department and facility.
  • Minimum of 1 year APN experience in a clinical setting
  • Previous infusion therapy experience required.
  • Active, unrestricted state license and DEA registration required.

Basic Qualifications

  • Previous experience with electronic charting
  • Effective verbal, written, and electronic communication skills

Travel Requirements: (if required)

  • Ability to travel between local infusion centers as needed to help with coverage, training, etc.

Preferred Qualifications & Interests (PQIs)

  • Experience with the oversight and administration of IV biologics
  • Supervisory experience
  • Previous telehealth experience

This job description is to be used as a guide for accomplishing Company and department objectives, and only covers the primary functions and responsibilities of the position. It is in no way to be construed as an all-encompassing list of duties.

Due to state pay transparency laws, the full range for the position is below:

Salary to be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.


Pay Range is $112,439.64-$187,406.90

Benefits:

-Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

-Paid Time off

-Bonding Time Off

-401K Retirement Savings Plan with Company Match

-HSA Company Match

-Flexible Spending Accounts

-Tuition Reimbursement

-myFlexPay

-Family Support

-Mental Health Services

-Company Paid Life Insurance

-Award/Recognition Programs

Option Care Health subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, making employment available without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status according to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or genetic information.

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