Advanced Practice Provider - PA or APRN - EP - Heart & Vascular

Responsibilities

• Physician and APP completed 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 (patient care)
• Absesses 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 (medical knowledge and patient care)
• 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
• Maintaining 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 engaging 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

• 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