Advanced Practice Provider - APRN or PA - Heart and Vascular

Responsibilities

• Participates in history taking, clinical assessment, and physical examination.
• Orders and interprets diagnostic studies, makes clinical diagnoses, and evaluates care for the given population.
• May have On Call duties as assigned by practice.
• Participates in inpatient weekend rotation.
• Completes Quality Assurance chart reviews (25 charts for new grad, 10 charts for established provider).
• Evaluates signs and symptoms, including age-appropriate changes, noting pertinent positives and negatives.
• Develops and reformulates differential diagnoses by priority, identifies co-morbidities, and uses diagnostic strategies and technical skills to monitor and sustain physiological function.
• Facilitates effective coordinated patient care during daily team transition huddles.
• Utilizes evidence-based practice and prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities.
• Interprets and evaluates lab and diagnostic testing, reporting to collaborating physician(s) and health care team members.
• Maintains quality of the healthcare practice through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation.
• Improves own practice and engages in interdisciplinary peer and colleague review.
• Adapts 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.
• Identifies processes and principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations.
• Participates professionally and collaboratively to advocate for the patient population and the profession.
• Addresses the development and implementation of system policies affecting services.

Requirements

• 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.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certifications required.

Qualifications

• Current Ohio Board of Nursing license for APRN.
• Certified Ohio License 50RX – License to practice as a physician assistant with prescriptive authority.
• Collaborative/supervision agreement as required through the Ohio Medical Board/Ohio Board of Nursing, including yearly review/Quality Assurance and evaluations.

Skills

• Effective communication and relationship-building with staff, providers, and the public.
• Awareness of patient confidentiality and ability to follow directions from physicians.
• Positive interpersonal relationships and critical analysis skills.
• Ability to multi-task and work under stress.
• Maintain competencies and skills in specialty areas of practice.
• Assessment skills, diagnosis with critical thinking, and implementation of a plan of care.
• Professional role includes clinical reasoning and building collaborative intra and interprofessional relationships.
• Advocacy on behalf of the patient population and the profession through active participation in health policy.
• Managing and negotiating healthcare delivery systems.