Advance Practice Provider, Arnold Palmer Hospital - Pediatrics Neurosurgery
About The Position
The Advance Practice Provider works under physician supervision and follows established practice guidelines and evidence-based clinical practice standards to provide inpatient and outpatient management, consultations, and co-management of surgical patients in Pediatrics Neurosurgery at Arnold Palmer Hospital. The role may be filled by a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant. The provider assesses patients, develops diagnoses and treatment plans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team, performs credentialed diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, and supports surgical care. The provider also documents care, educates patients, participates in rounds, quality initiatives, clinical research, and teaching, and maintains compliance with Orlando Health policies and applicable standards.
Requirements
- For Nurse Practitioners: MN, MSN, DNP, PhD, or DNS degree in nursing.
- For Nurse Practitioners: Florida APRN license.
- For Nurse Practitioner licensure applicants after July 1, 2006: national advanced certification from an approved nursing specialty board.
- For Nurse Practitioners: current BLS certification.
- For Physician Assistants: graduation from an accredited physician assistant program.
- For Physician Assistants: current Florida physician assistant licensure.
- For Physician Assistants: current BLS/healthcare certification.
- Experience: none.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients’ physical and psychosocial status through interviews, health histories, physical examinations, and diagnostic studies; recognize deviations from normal and develop diagnoses and collaborative treatment plans.
- Perform surgical wound closure, incision and drainage, debridement, and dressing changes; the surgeon must remain 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 patient management based on laboratory results, physical assessments, 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 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 department call rotation and/or weekend or 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 results, administering interventions under trial protocols, and documenting outcomes.
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance and comply with Orlando Health policies and applicable legal standards.
- Act as a role model and resource 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 community groups.
- Communicate effectively verbally and in writing with physicians, employees, patients, families, and diverse populations.
Benefits
- Benefits begin on day one.
- Free career-growing education programs.
- Well-being services to support employees and their families.
- Flexibility wherever possible.
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Job Type
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