Advanced Practice Professional- Colorectal Surgery

About the role

The Advanced Practice Professional (APP) provides high-quality, patient-centered care as a member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team. Working collaboratively with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, the APP assesses, diagnoses, treats, and manages patients within their scope of practice and area of specialty. The APP is responsible for delivering evidence-based care, promoting positive patient outcomes, maintaining professional and regulatory standards, and supporting the clinical, educational, and operational goals of the department and organization.

Responsibilities

• Manages comprehensive and individualized care for colorectal surgery patients and their families in the Emergency Room, inpatient phase of hospitalization (as applicable), peri-operative arena (including but not limited to first assisting in the operative suite), colorectal surgery consultations, and during inpatient hospitalization.
• Completes daily rounds consults and/or pre-procedure/surgical evaluations.
• Completes integrated assessments.
• With the collaboration of colorectal surgery faculty or by following established clinical Guidelines and Protocols, orders additional tests or consults as deemed appropriate.
• Performs and communicates results of diagnostic tests following established clinical guidelines and scope of practice.
• Consults and communicates with clinic and hospital staff regarding abnormal findings in the evaluations of patients.
• Performs succinct comprehensive clinical examinations and documents findings in medical record.
• Facilitates patient discharge by coordinating appropriate services and tests prior to discharge necessary for outpatient follow-up appointments in the clinic (as applicable).
• Develops a comprehensive individualized plan of care for patients, which includes teaching, discharge planning and necessary referrals to other members of the health care team as necessary.
• Demonstrates expertise in caring for patients across the age continuum of their educational experience and certification.
• Identifies unstable or complex patient care situations and facilitates appropriate intervention in the ambulatory and/or hospital setting.
• Recognizes emergency situations and initiates effective emergency care.
• Follows colorectal surgery patients in the inpatient setting.
• Acts as a coordinator for discharge disposition, procedures, tests, and post hospital follow-up in the ambulatory setting (as applicable).
• Assists in the collection of outcome measures of colorectal surgery patients (as applicable).
• Demonstrates critical thinking and diagnostic