APP LakeView Family Care (Suite A) NP or PA-C - Paw Paw, MI

Bronson Healthcare • Paw Paw, MI

39d • Onsite

About The Position

Bronson LakeView Family Care - Paw Paw (Suite A) in Paw Paw, MI is seeking to hire a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join their busy established Family Medicine Practice. This is a hospital-employed, Full-time outpatient only position. The practice utilizes a Team Approach with an Ambulatory Care Manager, clinical pharmacy support, social worker, as well as nurse triage. As a Rural Health practice, the schedule can be adjusted to offer appointments as early as 7:30 am or as late as 7 pm at least one day a week. Patients have access to an onsite pharmacy, laboratory and imaging. Nurse Triage service is available after hours and on the weekends, resulting in very low patient call volume after hours. The APP will provide call coverage one evening during the week and share call with 17 additional family care providers for weekend and holiday coverage.

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

• No OB or inpatient medicine opportunity

Responsibilities

• Performs comprehensive and problem focused histories and physical examinations, interprets laboratory and radiologic tests.
• Interprets and correlates subjective and objective patient data, formulating a diagnosis.
• Under the direction of the physician, reviews patient findings and develops a treatment plan within the scope of practice.
• Performs above activities in the outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.
• Concurrent Clinical Management: Coordinates care with the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate implementation of patients’ progress towards outcomes, which includes discharge or transfer of care. Acts as a clinical resource for the multi-disciplinary team.
• Assertive coordination among the multi-disciplinary team.
• Identifying common patient complications and utilizes appropriate preventative measures.
• Assisting in the development and integration of quality measures/evidence into clinical practice.
• Utilization Review: Performs 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.
• Applying knowledge of regulatory and third party payor criteria.
• Utilization Management.
• Facilitating timely discharges/transfers to the appropriate level of care.
• Clinical Management: Evaluate and appropriately manage patients.
• Evaluate lab, EKG, imaging studies.
• Complete appropriate documentation necessary to support: Billing, Medical care, Orders, Progress Notes.
• Be available for any nursing questions or to evaluated status changes for patients.

Benefits

• Team Approach with Ambulatory Care Manager, clinical pharmacy support, social worker, as well as nurse triage.
• Nurse Triage service is available after hours and on the weekends and patient call volume after hours is very low.
• Patients of the practice have access to an onsite pharmacy, laboratory and imaging.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed