Advanced Practice Provider - PA or APRN - Heart & Vascular

Responsibilities

• Participates in history taking, clinical assessment, and physical examination.
• Orders and interprets diagnostic studies, makes clinical diagnoses, and evaluates care for the given population.
• May have On Call duties as assigned by practice.
• Participates in inpatient weekend rotation.
• Completes Quality Assurance chart reviews (25 charts for new grad, 10 charts for established provider).
• Evaluates signs and symptoms, including age-appropriate changes, noting pertinent positives and negatives.
• Develops and reformulates differential diagnoses by priority, identifies co-morbidities, and uses diagnostic strategies and technical skills to monitor and sustain physiological function.
• Facilitates effective coordinated patient care during daily team transition huddles.
• Utilizes evidence-based practice, prescribing appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities, implementing treatment and referral orders, and interpreting and evaluating lab and diagnostic testing.
• Maintains quality of care through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation.
• Improves 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.
• Identifies processes, principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations.
• Ensures the Quality of the Healthcare Practice.

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.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certifications required.
• Current Ohio Board of Nursing license for APRN and Ohio License 50RX for PA.
• Maintain collaborative/supervision agreement as required through the Ohio Medical Board/Ohio Board of Nursing.