Advanced Practice Provider - APRN or PA - Primary Care

Kettering Health•Kettering, OH

19h•Onsite

About The Position

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is a direct primary care health services provider who synthesizes and utilizes evidence-based practice, research, and current clinical knowledge. This role involves maintaining an independent clinic schedule of patients with the possibility of empanelment. The APP is expected to demonstrate an advanced level of medical and/or nursing knowledge, clinical and technical competence, sound clinical judgment, and professionalism in communication. Responsibilities include timely and complete documentation and taking responsibility for ongoing professional development and competency validation. The APP collaborates with a multidisciplinary health care team and partners with supervising/collaborating physician(s). The role may include On Call duties and/or weekend responsibilities as assigned. Kettering Health is a not-for-profit system of 14 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio, committed to promoting and restoring health with patient safety as a top priority.

Requirements

APRN: Master’s degree with an Advanced Practice Nursing Focus and National Board Certification required
PA: Master’s degree required with the appropriate National Certification
APRN - National Board Certification as a CNP, CNS, CNM, or CRNA (APRN certification to match scope of practice)
PA- National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required
Current Ohio Board of Nursing license for APRN
Current Ohio License 50RX – License to practice as a physician assistant with prescriptive authority
Ability to communicate and relate well with staff, provider(s), and the public.
Awareness of patient confidentiality and ability to follow directions well from physician and work autonomously with little direction.
Demonstrates positive interpersonal relationships and critical analysis skills.
Demonstrates ability to multi-task and work under stress.
Maintains competencies and skills of specialty area of practice.
Demonstrates assessment skills, diagnosis with critical thinking and implementation of a plan of care.
Professional Role- skill includes clinical reasoning and builds collaborative intra and interprofessional relationships to provide optimal care to patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic illness.
Skill of advocating on the behalf of the patient population and the profession through active participation in the health policy process.

Responsibilities

Maintain independent clinic schedule of patients with possibility of empanelment.
Demonstrate an 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 and takes responsibility for ongoing professional development and competency validation.
Work in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team and in partnership with supervising/collaborating physician(s).
Perform history taking.
Conduct clinical assessment.
Perform physical examination.
Execute order entry.
Complete clinical documentation.
Interpret diagnostic studies.
Perform clinical diagnosis.
Provide treatment and evaluation of care for the given population.
May have On Call duties and/or weekend responsibilities as assigned by practice/department.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Complete Physician and APP Quality Assurance chart reviews (25 charts for new grad, 10 charts for an established provider).
Evaluate signs and symptoms, including age-appropriate changes, noting pertinent positives and negatives (patient care).
Assess the complex acute, critical, and chronically ill-patient and obtain relevant comprehensive and problem-focused health histories, prioritizing data collection and using collateral sources as necessary (medical knowledge and patient care).
Demonstrate the ability to develop and reformulate as necessary, differential diagnoses by priority, identify the presence of co-morbidities, and use diagnostic strategies and technical skills to monitor and sustain physiological function and ensure patient safety.
Participate in daily team transition huddles to facilitate effective coordinated patient care.
Utilize evidence-based practice, along with prescribing appropriate pharmacologic (includes medication reconciliation) and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities; implement treatment and referral orders; interpret and evaluate appropriate lab and diagnostic testing and report to collaborating physician(s) and health care team members.
Monitor and ensure the Quality of the Healthcare Practice through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation.
Improve one's own practice as well as engage in interdisciplinary peer and colleague review.
Adapt 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 (professionalism).
Participate professionally and work collaboratively to identify processes, principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations (system based).