Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) - Adult Regional Burn Center

Eskenazi Medical Group•Indianapolis, IN

About The Position

EMG is affiliated with Eskenazi Health and employs physicians and advanced practice providers who support the Eskenazi Health system. The multi-specialty provider group serves patients regardless of ability to pay or health condition while advancing medicine through teaching and research. Eskenazi Health is a safety-net health system with more than 1 million outpatient visits each year and partners with the Indiana University School of Medicine. It is the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, Indiana, with a 327-bed hospital in downtown Indianapolis, 10 federally qualified health care centers, and multiple mental health sites and residential facilities. The Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner focuses on surgical patients in the hospital and outpatient settings. Patients may include those receiving care for acute burns, burn reconstruction, aesthetics, breast reconstruction, hand, maxillofacial, and general reconstructive surgery. The provider delivers restorative, curative, rehabilitative, palliative, and maintenance care. The role provides burn surgery inpatient and outpatient coverage, manages burn patients in surgical and ICU settings, and provides cross coverage to plastic surgery patients as directed by the collaborating physician.

Requirements

The position is for a Physician Assistant (PA) or Nurse Practitioner (NP).
Special privileges and skills include phlebotomy; venous/arterial pressure monitoring devices; ACLS; EKG; incision and drainage; wound irrigation and debridement; burn wound excision and grafting under surgeon supervision; obtaining skin grafts from donor sites; wound care and dressing changes; removal of skin sutures; escharotomy under indirect physician supervision with special privileging; assistance with operative fasciotomies; compartment pressure measurement; ventilator adjustment; intubation and extubation; and first or second assistance in burn cases under direct surgeon supervision.
Obtain and maintain prescriptive authority and required CMEs as applicable.

Nice To Haves

Specialty certification, if available and appropriate.

Responsibilities

Manage and direct surgical inpatient and outpatient burn patients in a surgical/ICU care setting.
Provide care to patients admitted to the burn ICU under indirect physician supervision.
Manage critical care and step-down admissions under indirect supervision from the on-call physician.
Provide full coverage to burn surgery inpatient and outpatient services.
Provide cross coverage to plastic surgery patients as directed by the collaborating physician.
Order routine and special laboratory tests, radiographic studies, and EKGs, interpret results, and treat as appropriate.
Prescribe medications according to Standards of Practice and from the approved list.
Complete admission histories and physical examinations, progress notes, and physician orders, with orders cosigned within 24 hours.
Respond to service calls when physicians are in surgery.
Maintain membership in Burn Center committees and attend as required.
Participate in burn performance-improvement projects and presentations, including burn rounds, burn conference, multidisciplinary committee work, journal clubs, and mortality and morbidity reviews.
Prepare letters to physicians, government agencies, nursing homes, and home health providers to support patient needs and recurring or long-term care.
Assist the institution in preparing for Joint Commission accreditation and American Burn Association certification.
Contact patients and family members to arrange surgical consents before operations and special procedures, and gather and exchange information with them.
Consult with medical personnel to exchange information and plan operative actions and procedures needed for patient care.
Conduct surveillance of care.
Provide non-emergent and/or in-house on-call services for hospitalized patients as needed under the direction of the burn medical director.
Obtain prescriptive authority based on state guidelines once practice hours are achieved and maintain required continuing medical education.
Order preoperative and postoperative laboratory tests and radiographic studies, interpret results, and provide treatment as appropriate.
Perform or assist with specified burn and surgical procedures within granted privileges and required levels of physician supervision.