Advanced Practice Provider - APRN or PA - General Surgery

Responsibilities

• Physician and APP completed Quality Assurance chart reviews (25 charts for new grad, 10 charts for an established provider)
• Evaluates signs and symptoms, including age-appropriate changes, noting pertinent positives and negatives (patient care)
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively and efficiently document diagnoses, exam findings, and plan
• Assesses the complex acute, critical, and chronically ill-patient and obtains relevant comprehensive and problem-focused health histories, prioritizing data collection and using collateral sources as necessary (medical knowledge and patient care)
• Demonstrates the ability to develop and reformulate as necessary, differential diagnoses by priority, identifies the presence of co-morbidities, and uses diagnostic strategies and technical skills to monitor and sustain physiological function and ensure patient safety
• Participates in daily team transition huddles to facilitate effective coordinated patient care
• Utilizes evidence-based practice, along with prescribing appropriate pharmacologic (includes medication reconciliation) and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities; implements treatment and referral orders; interprets and evaluates appropriate lab and diagnostic testing and reports to collaborating physician(s) and health care team members
• Maintaining the Quality of the Healthcare Practice - skill of ensuring quality of care through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation
• Improving one's own practice as well as engaging in interdisciplinary peer and colleague review
• Adapting teaching and learning approaches based on physiological and psychological changes, age, developmental stage, cognitive status, readiness to learn, health literacy, the environment, and available resources (professionalism)
• Participates professionally and works collaboratively to identify processes, principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations (system based)

Requirements

• Position requires a high level of autonomy
• At least 2 years of experience is preferred, but not required
• Minimum Education: APRN: Master’s degree with an Advanced Practice Nursing Focus and National Board Certification required; PA: Master’s degree required with the appropriate National Certification
• Required Certifications: APRN - National Board Certification as a CNP, CNS, CNM, or CRNA (APRN certification to match scope of practice); PA- National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required

Essential Functions

• Ability to communicate and relate well with staff, provider(s), and the public
• Must have awareness of patient confidentiality and be able to follow directions well from physician and work autonomously with little direction
• Demonstrates positive interpersonal relationships and critical analysis skills
• Demonstrates ability to multi-task and work under stress
• Maintains competencies and skills of specialty area of practice
• Demonstrates assessment skills, diagnosis with critical thinking and implementation of a plan of care
• Professional Role- skill includes clinical reasoning and builds collaborative intra and interprofessional relationships to provide optimal care to patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic illness
• Skill of advocating on the behalf of the patient population and the profession through active participation in the health policy process
• Managing and Negotiating Healthcare Delivery Systems - skill in addressing the development and implementation of system policies affecting services

Qualifications

• Current Ohio Board of Nursing license for APRN
• Current Ohio License 50RX – License to practice as a physician assistant with prescriptive authority
• Maintain collaborative/supervision agreement as required through the Ohio Medial Board/Ohio Board of Nursing. Includes yearly review/Quality Assurance and evaluations

Skills

• Ability to communicate and relate well with staff, provider(s), and the public
• Must have awareness of patient confidentiality and be able to follow directions well from physician and work autonomously with little direction
• Demonstrates positive interpersonal relationships and critical analysis skills
• Demonstrates ability to multi-task and work under stress
• Maintains competencies and skills of specialty area of practice
• Demonstrates assessment skills, diagnosis with critical thinking and implementation of a plan of care
• Professional Role- skill includes clinical reasoning and builds collaborative intra and interprofessional relationships to provide optimal care to patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic illness
• Skill of advocating on the behalf of the patient population and the profession through active participation in the health policy process
• Managing and Negotiating Healthcare Delivery Systems - skill in addressing the development and implementation of system policies affecting services