APP Hospitalist PA-C or NP

Bronson Healthcare•Kalamazoo, MI

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Bronson Healthcare is seeking to hire a physician assistant or nurse practitioner to work with our excellent hospitalist team. The position involves evaluating, diagnosing, and treating patients admitted to the Bronson hospitalist service. This includes managing chronic conditions, addressing acute medical issues, and collaborating with other healthcare professionals. The candidate will also work in the emergency department assisting with the admission of patients to the hospitalist service. This role involves working shifts, which may include nights and weekends. There is also an opportunity to participate in the Advanced Medicine Clinic.

Requirements

Successful completion of an accredited Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner Program
Current unrestricted or pending Licensure in the state of Michigan
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Commitment to providing compassionate and quality patient-centered care
Successful completion of a Physician Assistant program
Licensure as Physician Assistant and state DEA license to prescribe medications
Current prescriptive authority and collaborative agreement with oversight physician(s) should also be in place
Must maintain all requirements for medical staff privileges
Ability to utilize word processing, spreadsheet, presentation programs, and other software relevant to the job
Regularly communicates clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing (Utilizing SBAR technique)
Communicates with internal customers such as, physicians, multi-disciplinary team, finance, management and external customers such as, patients, third party payers, community agencies on a daily basis and often simultaneously

Nice To Haves

Opportunity to participate in the Advanced Medicine Clinic

Responsibilities

Evaluate, Diagnose, and treat patients who are admitted to the Bronson hospitalist service.
Manage chronic conditions, address acute medical issues, and collaborate with other healthcare professionals.
Work in the emergency department assisting with the admission of patients who are coming on to the hospitalist service.
Perform comprehensive and problem focused histories and physical examinations, interpret laboratory and radiologic tests.
Interpret and correlate subjective and objective patient data, formulating a diagnosis.
Under the direction of the physician, review patient findings and develop a treatment plan within the scope of practice.
Perform above activities in the outpatient and inpatient settings.
Evaluate and appropriately manage patients.
Evaluate lab, EKG, imaging studies.
Complete appropriate documentation necessary to support billing, medical care, orders, and progress notes.
Be available for any nursing questions or to evaluate status changes for patients.
Coordinate care with the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate implementation of patients’ progress towards outcomes, which includes discharge or transfer of care.
Act as a clinical resource for the multi-disciplinary team.
Perform an initial comprehensive assessment of the patient to determine if the patient requires a higher intensity of service and requires transfer to a hospital setting.
Apply knowledge of regulatory and third party payor criteria.
Facilitate timely discharges/transfers to the appropriate level of care.