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Job Title
Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) - Fairview Hospital Rapid Observation Unit II Part Time
Location
Cleveland
Facility
Fairview Hospital
Department
Medicine-Fairview Hospital
Job Code
T98104
Shift
Day/Night Rotation
Schedule
7:00am-7:00pm/7:00pm-7:00am
Job Summary
Opening is for part-time days in Rapid Observation Unit.
Primary role will be for APP to provide care for Rapid Observation Unit patients including admissions and discharges as well as routine follow-up care. The APP will also be cross-trained to cover on the House Internal Medicine service line based on department needs.
Shifts: Primarily 7A-7P
Number of shifts: 16 shifts/8 weeks
Weekend and Holidays required
Occasional call may be required
The successful candidate should possess the following personal characteristics:
• Calm under pressure – You respond quickly and accurately in fast moving, complex environments.
• Analytical – You are able to dive into the minutia of issues to find the break in logic.
• Detail Oriented – In your work, you are confident that the small details are correct.
• Flexible – You will be asked to do tasks that are outside of the stated job description. You are willing and enjoy learning on the fly.
• A lifetime learner – You’re driven by innate curiosity and an endless desire to learn. You consider learning a reward. You relish mastering your craft.
• Comfortable with complexity – You absorb complex ideas quickly and easily separate the things that matter from the things that don’t.
• Your confidence is balanced by a sense of humility. You’re more interested in figuring out what’s right than being right.
• You enjoy working as part of a high-performance team. You’re a builder - you want to find ways to guide our culture, and push us in new directions we’ve not yet considered.
APRN: Nationally certified licensed healthcare provider who provides primary and/or specialty nursing and/or medical care in a variety of healthcare settings. Functions in collaboration with a physician according to a standard care arrangement and specialty certification. Provides advanced nursing care to patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic health conditions, including the delivery of acute care services.
PA: Nationally certified licensed healthcare provider who provides primary and or specialty medical care (the practice of medicine) in a variety of healthcare settings. Functions the collaboration agreement of a Physician, (as per O.R.C. 4730) performs complete histories and physicals on patients of all ages to establish and record patient's current health status and to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan to provide continuing medical care, including daily examinations, writing orders, chart notes, discharging patients and completing discharge summaries. This medical care may be in a variety of clinical settings. PA's are privileged by the Board of Governors. PA's in this role provide advanced care to patients with in any setting in which patients require complex, acute, critical and chronic health conditions. Practice in a setting that requires complex monitoring and therapies and high intensity medical/surgical interventions and/or continuous vigilance within the range of high-acuity care.
Job Details
Primary role will be for APP to provide care for Rapid Observation Unit patients including admissions and discharges as well as routine follow-up care. The APP will also be cross-trained to cover on the House Internal Medicine service line based on department needs.
Shifts: Primarily 7A-7P
Number of shifts: 16 shifts/8 weeks
Weekend and Holidays required
Occasional call may be required
The successful candidate should possess the following personal characteristics:
• Calm under pressure – You respond quickly and accurately in fast moving, complex environments.
• Analytical – You are able to dive into the minutia of issues to find the break in logic.
• Detail Oriented – In your work, you are confident that the small details are correct.
• Flexible – You will be asked to do tasks that are outside of the stated job description. You are willing and enjoy learning on the fly.
• A lifetime learner – You’re driven by innate curiosity and an endless desire to learn. You consider learning a reward. You relish mastering your craft.
• Comfortable with complexity – You absorb complex ideas quickly and easily separate the things that matter from the things that don’t.
• Your confidence is balanced by a sense of humility. You’re more interested in figuring out what’s right than being right.
• You enjoy working as part of a high-performance team. You’re a builder - you want to find ways to guide our culture, and push us in new directions we’ve not yet considered.
Responsibilities:
- Conducts thorough medical histories, performs complete physical examinations (where indicated), initiates appropriate lab, radiology tests or other special tests required for evaluation of illness, and scrutinizes lab data on new and former clinic patients and hospital admissions to establish a record of the patient's current health status and to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan.
- Must be able to work with collaborating physician.
- Performs and interprets, at least to the point of recognizing deviations from normal, common laboratory, radiologic, cardiographic and other routine diagnostic procedures used to identify pathophysiologic processes as privileged by CCF Credentialing Board.
- Performs routine procedures such as injections, immunotherapy, suturing and wound care, managing simple conditions produced by infection or trauma, assisting in the management of more complex illness and injury which may include assisting surgeons in conducting operations and taking initiative in performing evaluation and therapeutic procedures in response to life-threatening situations, as privileged by CCF Credentialing Board.
- May prescribe and monitor medications as allowed by prescriptive authority through applicable state Board of Nursing/Medicine and CCF policy.
- Performs specialized procedures, including bone marrow aspirations, biopsies and harvest, blood draws, designated IV starts, spinal taps, thoracentesis and paracentesis as well as other specific procedures as directed by the physician, following approval by CCF Credentialing Board.
- Provides information and answers routine questions of patients regarding their disease, including preventive health maintenance topics such as diet, weight, smoking and topics related to medical specialty, with basic recommendations.
- Educates patients regarding their disease, treatments, related drug and treatment side effects and hazards.
- Participates in medical team rounds; collaborates with nursing, medical and other healthcare team members regularly to ensure quality patient care Refers patients to specialists as appropriate for consultation or for specialized health resources and treatment.
- Ensures continuity of care by serving as a liaison between patient and other members of the multi-disciplinary care team or with other specialty areas as necessary. Performs research follow-up studies.
- Assists in data analysis. Participates in quality monitoring thru the review of records and treatment plans for patient outcomes on a periodic basis to assure quality care.
- Facilitates appropriate length of stay, discharge planning and compliance with regulatory standards for inpatient management. May serve as clinical preceptor for PA/APRN students and other health professionals.
- May serve as Faculty for onboarding new employees.
- Demonstrates a high standard of moral and ethical behavior.
- Demonstrates compassion and professionalism and a commitment to excellent patient care.