Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) Pediatric Hospital Medicine (Inpatient2)

About the role

The Medical College of Wisconsin’s Department of Pediatric Hospital Medicine is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to provide specialty care within the acute care inpatient units at Children’s Wisconsin. The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) works as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team who will contribute to excellence in program administration, patient care, patient safety, research, quality improvement, and teaching.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with MCW pediatric hospital medicine physicians and interdisciplinary health care teams in the diagnosis and treatment of children under the care of the hospital medicine service.
• Order and interpret diagnostic tests, procedures, laboratory studies and professional consultations.
• Appropriately communicate findings with the medical team as well as with patients and families.
• Develop and implement treatment plans in collaboration with the hospital medicine attending, monitor the effectiveness of the plan of care throughout the patient’s hospitalization; coordinate the care and discharge of the patient.
• Provides 24/7 in-house coverage of hospitalized general pediatric patients on the acute care floors at Children’s Wisconsin.
• Document within the Electronic Medical Record accurate and timely admission, discharge, and progress notes, as well as writing orders and discharge instructions.
• Provide education and counseling to patients and families on disease and treatment plans.
• Provide instruction (formal and/or informal) for nurses, nursing students, medical students, residents, fellows and other health care professional trainees).
• Attend required training, educational sessions and hospital medicine program specific meetings.
• Participate in section quality improvement and/or research activities.
• Participate to the extent that you are able in the administration and/or service functions of the Department, Section, or on Department or MCW Committees.

Requirements

• Previous APP experience preferred
• Open to new graduate APPs, although they must have experience in pediatrics (such as a pediatric clinical rotation).

Qualifications

• Nurse practitioner: Master’s degree or higher in nursing from a nationally accredited organization.
• Physician Assistant: Master’s degree in Physician Assistant studies from an ARC-PA-accredited organization.
• Advanced Practice Nurses/Nurse Practitioner
• Wisconsin RN License
• Wisconsin Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber License
• Certification requirements
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)
• DEA registration
• Nurse Practitioner Certification from a nationally accredited professional nursing organization
• Pediatric Acute Care certification (preference)
• Physician Assistant Wisconsin Physician Assistant License
• Certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)