Advanced Practice Provider - APRN or PA - Hospitalist

Responsibilities

• Physician and APP completed Quality Assurance chart reviews (25 charts for new grad, 10 charts for an established provider)
• Interviewing and examining patients, initiating appropriate work-up, interpreting lab and imaging results, and creating a proper treatment plan
• Daily rounding responsibilities including appropriate disposition of patients based on findings and needs
• Evaluates signs and symptoms, including age-appropriate changes, noting pertinent positives and negatives (patient care)
• Develops and reformulates 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
• Maintains the Quality of the Healthcare Practice - skill of ensuring quality of care through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation
• Improves one's own practice as well as 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 (professionalism)
• Participates professionally and works collaboratively to identify processes, principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations (system based)

Requirements

• High level of autonomy is needed therefore, minimum of two years of experience is required and experience with procedures is preferred
• 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); APRN - Acute Care Certification; PA- National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required

Work Experience

• Minimum of two years of experience is required
• Experience with procedures is preferred

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

Skills

• Ability to communicate and relate well with staff, provider(s), and the public
• Awareness of patient confidentiality and ability 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