Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner - Inpatient Domain (A) - Hospitalist

Essential Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive, evidence-based patient care for acute patients within an inpatient setting.
• This includes conducting thorough daily rounds, performing advanced medical history and physical assessments, formulating, and implementing patient-centered treatment plans, interpreting diagnostic test results, and facilitating safe and effective discharge planning.
• Orders, interprets, and evaluates laboratory, radiological, and diagnostic studies to determine patient treatment plans and establish medical diagnoses within the scope of practice.
• Collaborates proactively with the attending physician and interdisciplinary team to develop and refine patient care plans.
• Institutes emergency measures, treatment, and appropriate stabilization for acute patient situations, such as cardiac arrest, hemorrhage, or shock.
• Ensures appropriate and timely documentation in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) to support accurate medical coding and billing, and record and report pertinent information to the attending physician.
• Ensures timely documentation of all patient encounters, interventions, and outcomes in the electronic health record, adhering to all regulatory and institutional standards for inpatient care of acute and chronic conditions.
• Facilitates seamless communication and coordination of patient care activities with patients, families, community health services, and the entire interdisciplinary healthcare team to ensure continuity of care and optimal patient experience.
• Affords assessment of the specific learning needs of patients and their families, delivering culturally sensitive and age-appropriate education regarding their condition, treatment plan, and self-care strategies to promote understanding and active participation in their recovery.
• Communicates effectively with the attending physician regarding the plan of care, involving them in clinical decision-making for issues outside the Physician Assistant's knowledge or scope of practice.
• Maintains mandatory professional continuing education and actively participates in patient safety, quality improvement processes, and patient engagement initiatives.
• Performs hospital rounds, accurately executes physician orders, and maintains professional practice consistent with organizational mission statements and specialty-specific privileges.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Physician Assistant Studies
• Current PA Physician Assistant License
• PA-C or board eligible
• Substitutions: Four to ten years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Preferred: 1 year of experience in Physician Assistant
• Required: MSN from the practicing State Board of Nursing Approved Master's Program
• National Board Certification for Nurse Practitioners through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), National Certification Corporation (NCC), or Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB)
• Practicing-state licensure as a Nurse Practitioner Prescriptive Authority from the practicing state
• Within 60 days of hire: Drug Enforcement Agency Licensure
• CPR - American Heart Association ACLS certification
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate