Do you have compassion and a passion to help others? Transforming healthcare and millions of lives as a result starts with the values you embrace and the passion you bring to achieve your life's best work! Serving millions of Medicare and Medicaid patients, OptumCare is the nation's largest health and wellness business and a vibrant, growing member of the UnitedHealth Group family. We're also the career home for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants who bring compassion and passion, energy and focus to their work every day.

As a part of our continued growth, we are searching for a new Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner to join our team!

This is a flexible, autonomous role that creates enormous satisfaction as you impact the care and comfort of our aging population. All the while, you'll be building meaningful relationships with the patients, their families, and the health care providers who are responsible for their care

*This is a field-based position that requires daily travel to our members

place of residence”

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide Palliative Care services for patients in their homes or in assigned long term care facilities
• Review patient's past medical history and formulate a list of current and past medical conditions using clinical knowledge and judgment and the findings of your assessment
• Review current symptoms and identify diagnoses to be used in care management and active medical management of treatment
• Physical examination, medication review, and depression screening
• Communicate findings in your assessment that will be used to inform the PCP of potential gaps in care
• Educate members on topics such as disease process, medication, and compliance