Advanced Practice Provider - PA or APRN - Brain & Spine

Responsibilities

• History taking, clinical assessment, physical examination
• Order entry, clinical documentation, interpretation of diagnostic studies
• Clinical diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care
• Perform credentialled procedure
• Evaluate signs and symptoms, assess complex acute, critical, and chronically ill-patient
• Develop and reformulate differential diagnoses, identify co-morbidities, use diagnostic strategies and technical skills
• Participate in daily team transition huddles
• Utilize evidence-based practice, prescribe appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities, implement treatment and referral orders, interpret and evaluate lab and diagnostic testing
• Maintain quality of care through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation
• Adapt 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
• Identify processes, principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations
• Participate professionally and work collaboratively to engage in interdisciplinary peer and colleague review
• Advocate on behalf of the patient population and the profession through active participation in the health policy process
• Address 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
• National Board Certification as a CNP, CNS, CNM, or CRNA and Acute Care Certification
• 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 Medial 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
• Effective and efficient documentation of diagnoses, exam findings, and plan
• Positive interpersonal relationships and critical analysis skills
• Ability to multi-task and work under stress
• Maintain competencies and skills of specialty area of practice
• Demonstrates 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 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