Opportunity for 1099 RN/LPN to work from home as a patient advocate, promoting healthy lifestyles!

**Opportunity for 1099 RN/LPN to work from home as a patient advocate and promote healthy lifestyles!** Employer: Healthy Practice Solutions, LLC Location: Remote, but licensed in MO or a multistate license through NLC Contact: Kevin Wolfe **INTRODUCTION** Virtually everyone I have met in the health care industry was drawn to this industry by the idea of a rewarding job where you help others lead healthier, happier, and longer lives. Unfortunately, most jobs in health care are simply cogs in a corporate machine that delivers impersonal, one\-size\-fits\-all health care services. This position is the rare exception; an opportunity to work for a medical clinic that prides itself on delivering compassionate, personalized patient care. The successful candidate will work one\-on\-one with patients to identify potential health issues and develop proactive solutions customized to each patient’s personal preferences. You will play a crucial role in helping each patient develop a preventative health mind set and raising the patient’s awareness that self\-care is the key to maintaining good health and a longer life. **DESCRIPTION** This is a unique role for an experienced RN or LPN who is interested in remote behavioral health counseling. You will be providing remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) for blood pressure, blood glucose, weight, and pulse oximetry in combination with remote preventive health care services for primary care clinics to help patients make positive changes to improve their health. This is a challenging role because motivating patients to change behaviors requires different strategies that must be tailored to each individual in order to be effective. Successful intervention begins with identifying risk factors and then implementing appropriate interventions based upon the patient's level of awareness of the negative behavior, willingness to change, and ability to address the obstacles to positive change. A significant portion of your time will be spent with patients discussing sensitive topics such as obesity, lack of self care, depression, and problems arising from Social Determinants of Health. Patients may be embarrassed, defensive, or reluctant to enter into honest, productive, conversations. A qualified candidate must have a great deal of empathy and understanding for the patient’s current situation while demonstrating the ability to ask open\-ended, patient centered questions that will elicit meaningful responses from the patient. Understanding each issue from the patient’s perspective is essential in order to develop a personalized care plan with meaningful outcomes for the patient. You will also spend time talking to patients about negative behaviors where the patient may lack the motivation to change, such as smoking, a sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, or alcohol misuse. In some cases, the patient may not even recognize a problem exists. Your role is to ask non\-threatening, patient\-centered questions to begin a dialog