Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA/APP) Hospitalist

UVA Health System • Charlottesville, VA

297d • $98,841 - $158,142

About The Position

UVA Health is seeking a PA or NP to join its growing hospital medicine advanced practice provider (APP) team. The APP hired for this position will join a collaborative team of physicians, other APPs, and specialists managing a population of acute care general medicine patients at the UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville, VA within UVA School of Medicine's Division of General, Geriatric, and Hospital Medicine and UVA Health's Center for Advanced Practice. Following onboarding, newly hired hospitalist APPs will build toward the management of 7-9 patients representing a broad spectrum of acute and chronic disease states in a practice model emphasizing independence with the support and collaboration of physician colleagues. As an academic medical center, UVA possesses a rich culture of continual education and professional development that welcomes engaged learners.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited graduate school of nursing or physician assistant program with a master's degree
• License or license eligible as an Advance Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner, Physician Associate, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, and Certified Nurse Midwife) as set forth by the state of Virginia
• If Nurse Practitioner, license to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia is required
• Must demonstrate and maintain all credentialing and licensing requirements of UVA Health System, the Virginia Board of Medicine or the Virginia Board of Nursing, and appropriate certifying bodies
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) required
• Current PALS/NRP, as required, specific to position
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) as required, specific to position

Responsibilities

• Rounding on a cohort of 7-9 patients in an independent, APP-forward practice model backed by physician support
• Shifts will primarily involve rounding, with admitting shifts as needed based on hospitalist service census and admission volumes
• Performing and documenting progress notes and history & physical exams, analyzing clinical data to form well-developed differential diagnoses, and helping coordinate safe transitions of care
• Prescribing appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies, following patient responses, and adjusting the plan of care based on ongoing objective and subjective data collection
• Identifying appropriate sub-specialist consultation
• Effectively communicating plans of care with patients, families, nurses, other stakeholders; and, at times, navigating complex psychosocial dynamics
• Collaboration within a multidisciplinary team of physicians, APPs, nurses, therapists, and physician and advanced practice leadership
• The ability to professionally lead other members of the care team in a dynamic environment
• Self-motivated learning, engagement in process improvement and quality improvement initiatives

Benefits

• Differential pay offered for weekend shifts
• 4 x 10-hour shifts each week, or biweekly equivalent depending on staffing needs
• Weekends staffed on a rotating basis to cover approximately 26 weekends per year
• No night shift requirement
• Procedural training optional

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Master's degree