Advanced Practice Clinician-Emergency Medicine-Philadelphia

Jefferson Health Plans • Philadelphia, PA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Advanced Practice Clinician (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) works in an acute care hospital in collaboration with, and as an integral member of, a multidisciplinary health care team. The APC provides comprehensive care on the inpatient service.

The role includes performing complete histories and physical examinations, collecting and ordering assessment and diagnostic data, and responding to changes in patient status, including situations that may require procedural or resuscitative interventions. The APC assesses risks associated with acute and complex chronic illness, collaborates with the care team on diagnoses, manages diagnostic testing, develops and adjusts individualized plans of care, and may perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and validated competency.

The APC maintains communication with patients, families, and staff to support continuity of care, completes timely medical-record documentation, and contributes to professional practice through mentoring, education, research engagement, evidence-based practice, and participation in professional activities.

Requirements

• Master’s degree.
• National Board Certification as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant.
• BLS certification.

Responsibilities

• Perform complete histories and physical examinations and document them in the medical record.
• Order and collect data using appropriate assessment techniques, supporting diagnostic information, and diagnostic procedures when indicated.
• Respond to patient status changes and situations requiring orders, procedural interventions, or resuscitation, potentially as the first responder for nursing and house staff.
• Assess risks associated with acute and complex chronic illness, including medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions, and diagnostic procedures.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary health care team to diagnose acute and complex chronic conditions.
• Manage diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
• Formulate prioritized differential diagnoses, diagnose complications, and order appropriate interventions.
• Identify expected outcomes and formulate, document, implement, and modify individualized plans of care for complex acute and chronic health care needs.
• Use evidence-based practice guidelines and protocols in plans of care that can be applied across the continuum.
• Prescribe diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.
• Perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation, as applicable.
• Communicate and collaborate with the interdisciplinary health care team, patients, families, and staff to promote continuity of care across inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Document or dictate patient progress, plans, procedures, transfers, discharges, and other required clinical information in the medical record in a timely manner and in accordance with acute care compliance standards.
• Contribute to professional practice through precepting, mentoring, education, and instruction of graduate students.
• Seek opportunities to participate in research and analysis of evidence-based practice.
• Participate in Advanced Practice Grand Rounds and specialty-specific meetings.
• Maintain continuing education units and membership in a professional organization.

Benefits

• Medical insurance, including prescription coverage.
• Supplemental insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Life and AD&D insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Retirement plans.
• Tuition assistance.
• Voluntary benefits, including access to group insurance rates and discounts.
• Tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full-time service or two years of part-time service.
• Medical insurance, including prescription coverage, is available to all colleagues, including those working less than part-time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time