Advanced Practice Provider - Geriatrics

University Hospitals•Cleveland, OH

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About The Position

Cleveland Medical Center (CMC) in Cleveland, Ohio is seeking an experienced advanced practice provider to initiate and lead a geriatric-pre-operative clinic for high-risk older adults who will be undergoing elective surgery at CMC. This clinic is part of the Center’s application and participation in the geriatric surgery verification program. Brief Overview: The American College of Surgeons’ (ACS) geriatric surgery verification (GSV) program is a quality improvement initiative aimed at enhancing surgical care for older adults. It focuses on improving patient outcomes by addressing age-related factors that can increase surgical risks and complications and is now aligning with the domains of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid’s Age Friendly Hospital Measure. UH CMC is currently initiating the application process for the GSV program. One of the requirements for the program is completing geriatric screening preoperatively for adults 65 years of age and older. At the time of referral for surgery at UH CMC, all adults 65 years of age and older will be screened for specific risk factors, including age above 80, cognitive impairment, impaired mobility, and malnutrition. Those who screen positively will be referred to the geriatrics pre-operative assessment clinic, in addition to the usual preoperative assessment through the Center for Pre-operative Medicine. The goal of this clinic will be to address patients’ increased risk for complications through deprescribing high-risk medications, addressing goals of care and health care preferences, referring as needed to physical therapy, speech therapy, nutritional therapy, and geriatric medicine, and providing specific recommendations to the surgical teams regarding ways to reduce risk of complications for each patient while hospitalized. The Advanced Practice Provider for this position is responsible for providing quality care for patients and increasing patient access and satisfaction. Standard tasks to be performed by an Advanced Practice Prover as specified by the Ohio State Nursing Board and UH entity specific Medical Bylaws

Requirements

(MSN) Master's Degree in Nursing (Required)
Registered Nurse (RN), Ohio and/or Multi State Compact License (Required)
Nurse Practitioner (NP) in the State of Ohio (Required)
Basic Life Support (BLS) (Required)
Current APRN License (Required)
Demonstrated leadership skills. (Required proficiency)
Demonstrated skills in interpersonal relationships (Required proficiency)
Computer skills to access patient medical data from UHHS mainframe. (Required proficiency)
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Outlook. (Required proficiency)

Nice To Haves

5+ years as a Nurse Practitioner (Preferred)
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) (Preferred)

Responsibilities

Initiates and maintains positive relationships w/pts/customers
Initiates and maintains positive relationships w/co-workers
Takes responsibility for self-development and supports a learning environment
Displays commitment to the mission of the hospital and its values
Performs patient assessment and assigns diagnosis based on assessment data and clinical evidence
Establishes plan of care and implements interventions in accordance with care-paths, protocols, Standards-of-care and current research
Collaborates w/other health care providers in an interdisciplinary approach to provide care to the patient and family
Contributes to the educational development of staff, patients, family and self
Demonstrates progressive leadership and effective management
Provides education through role modeling and in-services to meet identified learning needs and to promote professionalism
Advances own professional development through self-directed learning, continuing education and participation in peer review
Performs other duties as assigned.
Complies with all policies and standards.
For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.