APP Trauma Surgery

About the role

Bronson Trauma Surgical Services has an exciting opportunity in southwest Michigan for a goal-oriented, energetic Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner.

Responsibilities

• Full-time, hospital employed position with inpatient and outpatient care
• Inpatient role focuses on trauma and critical care, including trauma resuscitations, arterial line, central line, chest tube placement, and occasional surgical assisting
• Outpatient care includes coverage of trauma clinic twice a week
• Works up to 12 shifts per 4-week block, including every 4th weekend
• Mix of day and night coverage with extra compensated shifts available for vacations, sick time, or practice needs
• Works closely with residents and students offering teaching opportunities

Requirements

• Experience in trauma or critical care setting preferred
• Successful completion of a Physician Assistant program
• Licensure as Physician Assistant and state DEA license to prescribe medications
• Maintain all requirements for medical staff privileges
• Ability to utilize various software relevant to the job
• Communicates clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing (Utilizing SBAR technique)
• Communicates with internal and external customers regularly

Qualifications

• Must maintain all requirements for medical staff privileges
• Ability to utilize word processing, spreadsheet, presentation programs, and other software relevant to the job
• Regularly communicates clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing (Utilizing SBAR technique)
• Communicates with internal customers such as, physicians, multi-disciplinary team, finance, management and external customers such as, patients, third party payers, community agencies on a daily basis and often simultaneously
• Work which produces high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g., interactive and repetitive or small detailed work requiring alertness and concentration for sustained periods of time, the operation of and full attention to a personal computer or CRT between 40 and 70 percent of the time
• The job produces some physical demands. Typical of jobs that include regular walking, standing, stooping, bending, sitting, and some lifting of light weight objects

Skills

• Concurrent Clinical Management
• Coordinates care with the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate implementation of patients’ progress towards outcomes, which includes discharge or transfer of care
• Acts as a clinical resource for the multi-disciplinary team
• Assertive coordination among the multi-disciplinary team
• Identifies common patient complications and utilizes appropriate preventative measures
• Absolutely required to develop and integrate quality measures/evidence into clinical practice
• Utilization Review
• Performs an initial comprehensive assessment of the patient to determine if the patient requires a higher intensity of service and requires transfer to a hospital setting
• Applies knowledge of regulatory and third party payor criteria
• Utilization Management
• Facilitates timely discharges/transfers to the appropriate level of care
• Clinical Management
• Evaluates and appropriately manages patients
• Completes appropriate documentation necessary to support: Billing, Medical care Orders, Progress Notes
• Be available for any nursing questions or to evaluate status changes for patients

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

Not specified

Schedule

Variable Time Type Full time Scheduled Weekly Hours 40