Advance Practice Provider, Cardiothoracic Surgery

Orlando Health • Orlando, FL

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About The Position

In collaboration with a physician and according to the collaborative practice protocol, the Advance Practice Provider provides inpatient management, consultations, and co-management of surgical patients in acute care and practice settings. The role manages patients with a high degree of independence in a highly specialized area and across the continuum of care, while working with an interdisciplinary team to assess patients, develop diagnoses, and implement treatment plans.

The position includes surgical, diagnostic, therapeutic, prescribing, documentation, and patient education duties. The provider also participates in multidisciplinary rounds, call rotations and weekend or holiday rounding as required, quality initiatives, clinical research, staff development, and policy review. The role serves as a specialty resource and supports teaching students, residents, and interns.

Requirements

• MN, MSN, DNP, PhD, or DNS degree in nursing.
• Florida ARNP license.
• For licensure applicants after July 1, 2006, national advanced certification from an approved nursing specialty board is required.
• Current BLS certification.
• Five years of nurse practitioner experience, including two years of experience in the specialty.

Responsibilities

• Manage patients with a high degree of independence, minimal physician supervision, and across the continuum of care in a highly specialized area.
• Assess patients’ physical and psychosocial status through interviews, health histories, physical examinations, and diagnostic studies; recognize deviations from normal.
• Develop diagnoses and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to formulate and implement treatment plans.
• Close wounds surgically; perform incision and drainage, debridement, and dressing, with the surgeon remaining in the immediate area.
• Scrub with the collaborating surgeon in the operating room.
• Perform complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as credentialed.
• Diagnose medical and surgical problems and prescribe necessary treatment and services.
• Implement appropriate management based on laboratory results, physical assessments, routine diagnostic and follow-up studies, therapeutic measures, and admission and discharge care, in accordance with evidence-based medicine.
• Identify, analyze, and resolve patient care issues to improve patient care and outcomes.
• Dictate and document accurately and in a timely manner.
• Provide patient education and preventive health services.
• Conduct or participate in multidisciplinary rounds.
• Participate in the department call rotation and/or weekend and holiday rounding as required.
• Prescribe medication.
• Participate in quality initiatives to support consistent attainment of key quality indicators.
• Support IRB-approved clinical research and trials, including ordering diagnostic tests, prescreening patients, recording laboratory and diagnostic results, administering therapeutic interventions per trial protocols, and documenting outcomes per hospital and trial protocols.
• Act as an advanced resource for the specialty area.
• Maintain reasonably regular and punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies and applicable standards.
• Maintain compliance with Orlando Health policies and procedures.
• Act as a role model and resource person for staff.
• Assist in teaching students, residents, and interns in complex techniques and procedures.
• Participate in reviewing and revising policies and procedures.
• Establish relationships with professional and other health-related groups in the community.
• Communicate effectively in writing and verbally with diverse populations, including physicians, employees, patients, and families.
• Participate in basic science and clinical research projects.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level