Nurse Practitioner - Lexington, KY

What We Strive For

Strive Health is built for purpose — to transform a broken kidney care system. We are fundamentally changing the lives of people with kidney disease through early identification, engagement and comprehensive coordinated care. Strive’s model is driven by a high-touch care team that integrates with local providers and spans the entire care journey from chronic kidney disease through end-stage kidney disease, leveraging comparative and predictive data and analytics to identify at-risk patients. Strive Health’s interventions significantly reduce the rate of emergent dialysis crash, cut inpatient utilization and significantly improve patient outcomes and experience. Come join our journey as we create THE destination for top talent in the healthcare community and set a new standard for how kidney care should be done.

Why We’re Worth the Application

• We Strive for excellence and Strive has been recognized with six Best Place to Work awards, including Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers 2023 and 2022, Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work 2022 and 2024, Comparably’s Best Places to Work in Denver 2022 and The Tech Tribune’s Best Startups in Denver 2022. Additionally, Strive’s CEO, Chris Riopelle, has been recognized as one of Denver Business Journal’s Most Admired CEOs.
• We derive innovation and ideas from through authentic diversity intentionally building a team that represents the populations we serve in partnership with our Employee Resource Groups:
  • Strive Forward - LGBTQ
  • Underrepresented Minorities
  • Women and Allies
• We care and support our Strivers within and beyond work to feel fully charged and empowered through our generous wellbeing offerings including:
  • Flexible time off
  • Companywide wellbeing days
  • Volunteer time off
  • Leave packages including a sabbatical, parental leave and eight weeks paid for living donor
  • Professional development
  • A dedicated certified financial planner
  • Headspace, Carrot Fertility and Gympass for all Strivers
• We like to have fun by celebrating our successes as a team through team building, company gatherings, trivia, wellbeing raffles, pajama days, a companywide book club and more.
• We value tenacity to help us overcome obstacles with grit and determination to deliver compassionate kidney care.

Nurse Practitioner

As part of Strive’s interdisciplinary clinical care team, the NP will utilize their advanced education, skills, and judgment to deliver advanced nursing care for CKD and ESKD 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 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 ESKD patients. 
• Understands value-based care and applies principles to practice.
• Assess patient needs including preventative care, immunizations, and screenings deliver advanced quality nursing care, and achieve optimal patient outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease and ESKD.
• Obtains patient history, performs physical exam, orders, and interprets diagnostic tests and lab values to identify and assess patient’s health care needs.
• Formulates a plan, diagnoses, and prognosis based on assessment findings and individual patient short term and longitudinal needs.   
• Performs follow up assessments and touchpoints to address acute and interim events, monitor progress, update care plans.
• Adheres to expectations outlined in Strive’s documentation policy.
• Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to meet immediate and longitudinal needs.
• Collaborates with external providers to ensure alignment on goals, treatment, and care plans.
• Follows best demonstrated practices and evidence-based medicine and incorporates best into patient care.
• Presents patient cases and provides clinical support for clinical rounds and interdisciplinary team meetings.
• Ensures assessment and plan of care incorporate best practices for chronic kidney care:
  • CKD clinical care including management of all stages of CKD, co-morbidities, ESKD and support of transitions to renal replacement therapy, transplant, or conservative care
• Participation in shared decision making and end of life/advanced care planning discussions
• Serves patients and perform patient visits in m