APP Waynesburg Clinic

About the Role

The Advanced Practice Professional (APP) provides high-quality, patient-centered care as a member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team. Working collaboratively with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, the APP assesses, diagnoses, treats, and manages patients within their scope of practice and area of specialty. The APP is responsible for delivering evidence-based care, promoting positive patient outcomes, maintaining professional and regulatory standards, and supporting the clinical, educational, and operational goals of the department and organization.

Responsibilities

• Manages comprehensive and individualized care for primary care patients and their families in the ambulatory setting, including consults, pre-procedure evaluations, acute visits, and wellness visits.
• Completes integrated assessments and orders additional tests or consults as deemed appropriate, following established clinical guidelines and scope of practice.
• Performs and communicates results of diagnostic tests, consults with clinic and hospital staff regarding abnormal findings, and documents findings in the medical record.
• Develops a comprehensive individualized plan of care, including teaching, follow-up planning, and necessary referrals to other members of the healthcare team.
• Identifies unstable or complex patient care situations and facilitates appropriate intervention in the clinic and/or hospital setting.
• Recognizes emergency situations and initiates effective emergency care.
• Assists in the collection of outcome measures and demonstrates critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning skills in clinical decision-making.
• Utilizes teaching/learning theory and appropriate teaching strategies to educate nursing staff, hospital staff, students, patients, families, and the community.
• Collaborates with other leaders and staff to achieve patient outcome-based improvements in care and provides leadership in the development and implementation of changes in primary care practice.
• Participates in clinical trials, research studies, and community programs, and serves as a professional role model.

Qualifications

For Nurse Practitioner:

• Graduate of a CCNE accredited nursing program with a Master’s Degree in Nursing.
• National Certification by one of the recognized APRN Certification Centers.
• Licensure or eligibility for licensure as a professional Registered Nurse and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in Pennsylvania.
• BLS Certification required, with additional Advanced Life Support training at the discretion of the department.
• Primary care experience preferred; eligible new graduates will be considered.

For Physician Assistant:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree as a Physician Assistant required.
• Graduate of an ARC-PA approved Physician Assistant (PA) training program.
• Certification by the National Commission for Certification of Physician Assistants.
• Must be licensed or eligible for licensure by the PA Board of Medicine.
• BLS Certification required, with additional Advanced Life Support training at the discretion of the department.

Skills

• Proficiency with computers.
• Strong communication skills.

Physical Requirements

Heavy/Hard Work: Work requires strength and/or stamina, lifting, moving, stooping, reaching, positioning of patients, standing, walking, and carrying of patients, materials, and equipment weighing 40+ pounds.

Working Environment

Working closely with others, protracted or irregular hours, working around biohazards and infectious diseases, working with or near the deceased, working with hands in water, and electrical hazards associated with patient care equipment.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Shift: Exempt

Location: 451 Murtha Drive, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania