Advanced Practice Provider - APRN or PA - Primary Care

Responsibilities

• Maintain independent clinic schedule of patients with possibility of empanelment.
• Work in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team and in partnership with supervising/collaborating physician(s).
• Perform history taking, clinical assessment, physical examination, order entry, clinical documentation, interpretation of diagnostic studies, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care.
• May have On Call duties and/or weekend responsibilities as assigned by practice/department.
• Completes 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Maintains competencies and skills of specialty area of practice.
• Participates professionally and works collaboratively to identify processes, principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations.
• 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.
• Advocates on behalf of the patient population and the profession through active participation in the health policy process.

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 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.