Advanced Practice Provider - Hospitalist Fellow

Responsibilities

• Completes Quality Assurance chart reviews (25 charts for new grad, 10 charts for an established provider).
• Interviews and examines patients, initiates appropriate work-up, interprets lab and imaging results, and creates 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 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, prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities, implements treatment and referral orders, interprets and evaluates lab and diagnostic testing, and communicates results 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 (professionalism).
• Identifies processes, principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations (system based).

Requirements

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

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 Medical Board/Ohio Board of Nursing.

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 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.