Nurse Practitioner

Strive Care Partners Overview 

Strive Care Partners (SCP) is a dedicated business unit within Strive Health that partners with nephrologists to share and succeed in global risk contracts with payors. SCP will benefit patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage kidney disease (ESKD) through a comprehensive, patient-centered approach that enhances lives and local communities. SCP develops local market Managed Service Organizations (MSOs) that aggregate networks of nephrologists and provide them with the tools necessary to be successful in managing risk on their patients. Specifically, SCP delivers primary care services, specialized clinical programs, data integration and analytics, care teams, and administrative support services – all embedded within the nephrologist’s practice. SCP contracts with local market payors on the nephrologists’ behalf to take global risk on their CKD and ESRD patients and provides nephrologists with meaningful short-term and long-term financial incentives, including participation in shared savings and equity-based programs. 

Nurse Practitioner 

As part of Strive’s interdisciplinary clinical care team, the Nurse Practitioner (NP) will utilize their advanced education, skills, and judgment to deliver advanced nursing care for CKD and ESRD patients. The NP will be responsible for managing patient care by working with the Strive interdisciplinary team of social workers, care coordinators, pharmacists, dietitians, and physicians to provide best in class patient care.  

The NP will work both independently and in partnership with other health care professionals.  This position may require participation in risk and quality management programs, clinical meetings and other meetings.  The Strive NP will be an advocate, navigator, trusted clinician, and safety net for the patient while delivering exceptional clinical care, building empathy and trust with patients, and delivering a world class patient experience. 

Essential Functions

• Accountable for patient outcomes and KPIs for a panel of CKD and ESRD patients.   
• Assess patient needs, deliver advanced quality nursing care, and achieve optimal patient outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease and ESRD. 
• Obtains patient history, performs appropriate physical exam, orders and interprets diagnostic tests and lab values to identify and assess patient’s health care needs.     
• On an ongoing basis, monitors and documents patient condition, response to the care plan and significant incidents.    
• Formulates a plan and prognosis based on patient condition.     
• Alongside with other members of the interdisciplinary team, will assure that a patient’s need for immediate and/or emergent care is handled promptly and appropriately.     
• Willingness to drive prevention at every opportunity to slow progression, decrease exacerbations, and minimize complications, while keeping in mind what the patient wants for their life.     
• Accountable across the continuum of disease process, healthcare systems, and patient’s lives.   
• Assesses the longitudinal needs of patients and individualizes them in the patient’s plan of care.    
• Collaborates well with all levels of the clinical team and is able to align and influence the care needs of a patient.   
• Serves as a liaison with dialysis facilities, PCPs, and nephrologists, providing care plan updates to help streamline the transitions in care.   
• Remains up-to-date and current on advances and trends in renal care treatment, guidelines, policies and procedures.   
• Follows evidence-based medicine and incorporates best practices into patient care.   
• Functions independently as a certified nurse practitioner for a patient population in collaboration and consultation with a licensed patient care team physician.  
• Meet in person with internal and/or external stakeholders to facilitate team and business priorities/opportunities.  
• Provides patients home visits and willing to be on call. 
• Serve patients in person and in multiple care settings (e.g., patient home, clinics) in addition to virtual visits and willing to be on call.  

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s or Doctorate level degree in Nursing  
• Three (3) years' experience as a Nurse Practitioner 
• Current active licensure in any state within the US required
• National Board Certification 
• Current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) license required or eligible to obtain within 90 days of hire 
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required 
• 2 years’ experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner (NP), Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (NP), or experience in internal medicine, cardiology, Nephrology or Case Management
• Basic computer skills and experience with EHR required   
• Business travel
• Internet Connectivity - Min Speeds: 3.8Mbps/3.0Mbps (up/down): Latency <60 ms
• Must be able to travel by public transportation (eg. Trains, Airplanes, Subways, Ferry, etc.)
• Must have the ability to travel to member’s visit location
• Must meet company driving standards
• Must have valid state driver license and be able to drive a car
• Must meet company’s automobile liability insurance standards and provide proof of coverage

Preferred Qualifications

• Wound Care certification is a plus 
• Demonstrated proficiency in clinical assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, documentation, and evaluation of complex chronic patients 
• Excellent communicator, team builder, and results oriented Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of data and managing to clinical, financial, and patient satisfaction outcomes 
• Excels at developing and fostering strong patient and family relationships that center on engagement, trust, honesty, empathy, follow-through and doing what’s best for the patient  
• Preferred experience in internal medicine, nephrology, cardiology, acute care, or ICU care

Physical/Environmental Demands 

• Ability to reach overhead and side to side
• Lifting overheard and carrying of 10lbs routinely, 20 lbs sporadically 
• Ability to sit, stand and kneel as needed to perform physical assessment
• Ability to grasp and hold medical instruments as needed to perform physical assessment
• Ability to navigate stairs and a variety of patients dwelling conditions and configurations