Advanced Practice Fellow - Emergency Medicine

About the role

The Advanced Practice Fellow works in collaboration with and is an integral member of an interdisciplinary health care team. The Advanced Practice Fellow should have a basic foundation in evidence-based practice and demonstrate adequate medical and nursing knowledge, clinical/technical competence, sound clinical judgment, professional communication skills, timely and compliant documentation. The Advanced Practice Fellow may function in a variety of inpatient and outpatient care settings throughout the fellowship to optimize learning experiences.

Responsibilities

• Assesses health status by performing and documenting a complete history and physical examination; orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
• Affirms risks associated with care including: medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions and diagnostic procedures.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making accurate and diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions; manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
• Formulates differential diagnoses by priority; diagnoses complications and identifies appropriate interventions; formulates a plan of care to address acute and complex, chronic health care needs.
• Utilizes evidenced-based practice guidelines or protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum; prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic and surgical (as needed) to achieve expected outcomes.
• Manages further diagnostic tests through ordering, performance and interpretation; performs advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation.
• Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team members; facilitates communication with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.
• Documents key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary and/or clinic note, where applicable; documentation will be timely and must meet compliance standards while accurately capturing patient acuity and/or complexity.
• Provides preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of students and nursing staff as needed; seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice.
• Attends Grand Rounds, AP Council meetings, faculty and unit meetings, MM & I presentations and other education opportunities as available; maintains continuing education to maintain licensure and certification requirements; actively participates in required professional development fellowship curriculum.

Qualifications

• Certifications: Not specified
• Work Experience: Less than 1 year
• Education: Master's

Skills

Requires subject matter knowledge within a professional area to meet job requirements. Requires a basic foundation in evidence-based practice and demonstrates adequate medical and nursing knowledge, clinical/technical competence, sound clinical judgment, professional communication skills, timely and compliant documentation.

Benefits

Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) key responsibilities include assessing health status, collaborating with interdisciplinary health care team in making accurate and diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions, managing diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision, formulating differential diagnoses by priority, diagnosing complications and identifying appropriate interventions, formulating a plan of care to address acute and complex, chronic health care needs, utilizing evidenced-based practice guidelines or protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum, prescribing diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic and surgical (as needed) to achieve expected outcomes, managing further diagnostic tests through ordering, performance and interpretation, performing advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation, maintaining ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team members, facilitating communication with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care, documenting key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary and/or clinic note, where applicable, providing preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of students and nursing staff as needed, seeking opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice, attending Grand Rounds, AP Council meetings, faculty and unit meetings, MM & I presentations and other education opportunities as available, maintaining continuing education to maintain licensure and certification requirements, actively participating in required professional development fellowship curriculum.

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

Not specified