Synapticure is hiring a
Dementia Care Nurse Practitioner, Remote - United States

Summary

The job is for a Nurse Practitioner at Synapticure, a specialty clinic focusing on neurodegenerative diseases. The role involves diagnosing, treating, and managing dementia and other acute illnesses through comprehensive and acute care visits, telehealth, education, and collaboration with other healthcare professionals.

Requirements

• Masters of Science in Nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice, or NP Certificate Program Graduate
• Current Nurse Practitioner credentialing body certificate
• Active, unrestricted APRN licensure
• 2 years of experience as APRN in primary care, internal medicine, geriatric care, neurology or equivalent
• Working knowledge of Geriatrics and care of Geriatric/Neurology patients
• Ability to take medical histories, perform examinations, assessments and implement appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic plans using medical practice in collaboration with supervising neurologist
• Timely documentation
• Managing a busy clinical schedule while minimizing patient wait times
• Comfort with multiple communication and documentation platforms (EMR, slack, email, etc)
• Ability to assess psychosocial needs of patient/family/conservator/caregiver in a culturally diverse environment
• Knowledge of assessment and treatment of dementia, including psychological, behavioral, and medical aspects
• Excellent verbal and written communications, organizational skills, and interpersonal skills to work effectively in a diverse team
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-based, collaborative environment; able to prioritize and complete tasks in a timely manner

Responsibilities

• Diagnose, treat, and manage dementia and other acute episodic illnesses through comprehensive and acute care visits
• Provide telehealth comprehensive and acute visits with patient and caregivers
• Annual visits to monitor implementation of dementia care plans
• Facilitate appointments with consultants when the treatment plan needs to be reassessed
• Provide dementia education and management skills to caregivers
• Take urgent calls during daytime hours, on call rotation, manage or triage problems, and communicate with community primary care physicians
• Order and interpret appropriate lab and diagnostic testing and adjust treatment plans accordingly
• Collaborate with Synapticure’s neurologists/ dementia specialist, interdisciplinary care team and community PCPs to provide excellent dementia care
• Maintains appropriate and compliant documentation within our EMR (electronic medical record)
• Collaborates with local and regional operations and clinical leadership to achieve goals
• Supports strategic initiatives regarding the GUIDE program
• Provides an excellent customer experience to foster high customer satisfaction/retention

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as an APRN in a gerontology and/or dementia care setting
• Clinical research experience in AD/ADRD and knowledge of current research landscape related to dementia care and treatment
• Bilingual, with verbal and written fluency in Spanish to support a diverse population of patients and caregivers

Benefits

• Health insurance offering
• Salary range for this role is competitive depending on the candidate’s level of experience