Advanced Practice Provider - APRN or PA - Hospitalist

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Advanced level of medical and/or nursing knowledge
• •Clinical and technical competence
• •Sound clinical judgment
• •Professionalism as it relates to interpersonal and general communication skills
• •Timely and complete documentation
• •Responsibility for ongoing professional development and competency validation
• •Ability to work in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team
• •Ability to work in partnership with supervising/collaborating physician(s)
• •History taking
• •Clinical assessment
• •Physical examination
• •Order entry
• •Interpretation of diagnostic studies
• •Clinical diagnosis
• •Treatment
• •Evaluation of care
• •On Call duties
• •Weekend responsibilities
• •Quality Assurance chart reviews (25 charts for new grad, 10 charts for an established provider)
• •Interviewing and examining patients
• •Initiating appropriate work-up
• •Interpreting lab and imaging results
• •Creating a proper treatment plan
• •Daily rounding responsibilities
• •Appropriate disposition of patients based on findings and needs
• •Evaluating signs and symptoms, including age-appropriate changes
• •Noting pertinent positives and negatives
• •Assessing complex acute, critical, and chronically ill-patients
• •Obtaining relevant comprehensive and problem-focused health histories
• •Prioritizing data collection
• •Using collateral sources as necessary
• •Developing and reformulating differential diagnoses by priority
• •Identifying the presence of co-morbidities
• •Using diagnostic strategies and technical skills to monitor and sustain physiological function
• •Ensuring patient safety
• •Participating in daily team transition huddles
• •Facilitating effective coordinated patient care
• •Utilizing evidence-based practice
• •Prescribing appropriate pharmacologic treatment modalities
• •Implementing medication reconciliation
• •Implementing non-pharmacologic treatment modalities
• •Implementing treatment and referral orders
• •Interpreting and evaluating appropriate lab and diagnostic testing
• •Reporting to collaborating physician(s) and health care team members
• •Ensuring quality of the Healthcare Practice
• •Ensuring quality of care through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation
• •Improving one's own practice
• •Engaging in interdisciplinary peer and colleague review
• •Adapting 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
• •Identifying processes, principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations
• •High level of autonomy
• •Minimum of two years of experience
• •Experience with procedures
• •Master's degree with an Advanced Practice Nursing Focus
• •National Board Certification (APRN)
• •Master's degree (PA)
• •Appropriate National Certification (PA)
• •National Board Certification as a CNP, CNS, CNM, or CRNA
• •APRN certification to match scope of practice
• •Acute Care Certification
• •National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• •Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
• •Current Ohio Board of Nursing license for APRN
• •Current Ohio License 50RX – License to practice as a physician assistant with prescriptive authority
• •Collaborative/supervision agreement as required through the Ohio Medial Board/Ohio Board of Nursing
• •Yearly review/Quality Assurance and evaluations
• •Ability to communicate and relate well with staff, provider(s), and the public
• •Awareness of patient confidentiality
• •Ability to follow directions well from physician
• •Ability to work autonomously with little direction
• •Positive interpersonal relationships
• •Critical analysis skills
• •Ability to multi-task and work under stress
• •Competencies and skills of specialty area of practice
• •Assessment skills
• •Diagnosis with critical thinking
• •Implementation of a plan of care
• •Clinical reasoning
• •Building collaborative intra and interprofessional relationships
• •Advocating on the behalf of the patient population and the profession
• •Active participation in the health policy process
• •Skill in addressing the development and implementation of system policies affecting services

Desired Qualifications

• •Experience with procedures