Advance Practice Provider, Bayfront Medical Group -Trauma Surg & Acute Care, St. Petersburg Florida

Orlando Health•St. Petersburg, FL

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Under physician supervision and in accordance with established practice guidelines and evidence-based clinical standards, the Advanced Practice Provider manages surgical patients in inpatient and outpatient settings, including consultations and co-management. The role provides highly specialized patient care with a high degree of independence and minimal physician supervision across the continuum of care. The position is based in the Trauma Surgery and Acute Care department at Bayfront Medical Group in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Requirements

For Nurse Practitioner candidates: MN, MSN, DNP, PhD, or DNS degree in nursing.
For Physician Assistant candidates: graduation from an accredited physician assistant program.
For Nurse Practitioner candidates: active Florida APRN license.
For Nurse Practitioner licensure applicants after July 1, 2006: national advanced certification from an approved nursing specialty board.
For Nurse Practitioner candidates: current BLS certification.
For Physician Assistant candidates: current Florida physician assistant licensure.
For Physician Assistant candidates: current BLS/healthcare certification.
Five years of Advanced Practice Provider experience.
Two years of specialty experience.

Responsibilities

Assess patients’ physical and psychosocial status through interviews, health histories, physical examinations, and diagnostic studies, and recognize deviations from normal.
Develop diagnoses and work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team to formulate and implement treatment plans.
Close wounds surgically and perform incision and drainage, debridement, and dressing, with the surgeon remaining in the immediate area.
Scrub with the collaborating surgeon in the operating room.
Perform credentialed complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to diagnose medical and surgical problems and prescribe necessary treatment and services.
Manage patients based on laboratory results, physical assessments, diagnostic and follow-up studies, therapeutic measures, and admission and discharge care in accordance with evidence-based medicine.
Identify, analyze, and resolve patient-care issues to improve care and outcomes.
Dictate and document accurately and in a timely manner.
Educate patients and provide preventive health services.
Conduct or participate in multidisciplinary rounds.
Participate in the department call rotation and weekend or holiday rounding as required.
Prescribe medication.
Participate in quality initiatives to support consistent attainment of key quality indicators.
Support IRB-approved clinical research and trials, including ordering diagnostic tests, prescreening patients, recording results, administering interventions under trial protocols, and documenting outcomes according to hospital and trial protocols.
Act as an advanced resource for the specialty area.
Perform minor bedside procedures appropriate to the specialty patient population independently of the physician.
Maintain regular, punctual attendance and comply with Orlando Health policies and applicable standards.
Act as a role model and resource for staff.
Assist in teaching students, residents, and interns complex techniques and procedures.
Participate in reviewing and revising policies and procedures.
Establish relationships with professional and other health-related groups in the community.
Communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with diverse populations, including physicians, employees, patients, and families.