APP (Advanced Practice Provider) - Primary Care Services / Rural Health Clinics- Full Time

Meadville Medical Center•Meadville, PA

155d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a full-time position for an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) in Primary Care Services within Rural Health Clinics. The APP will establish preliminary diagnoses under the direction of a supervising physician, recommend further testing and examinations, and provide preventative services. Responsibilities include maintaining medical records, completing patient reports, participating in the development of standing orders/protocols, and managing prescription refills per a Collaborative Agreement. The APP will also review daily lab and hospital reports with the supervising physician and accept other designated duties. The role involves seeing patients for medical management, including EKG, reviewing patient history and symptoms, performing assessments, and planning continued care. This includes scheduling further testing (echocardiograms, stress tests, radiologic studies, lab studies), medication management, and referrals. The APP will review test results, counsel patients, coordinate care, and follow patients within the hospital as consulted, documenting, placing orders, and ordering testing as appropriate.

Requirements

Graduate of a nationally accredited and/or state approved PAC educational program approved by the American Medical Association.
Pennsylvania Certification as a PAC.
Credentialing - Competencies in accordance with current credentialing and/or competency requirements.
Current BLS Healthcare Provider card.

Responsibilities

Establishes preliminary diagnoses of physical abnormalities under the direction of the supervising physician as per guidelines.
Recommends for further testing and examinations to appropriate cooperating services (i.e., hospitals, clinical laboratories, radiological services, and other technical or specialized services).
Provides preventative services such as, weight loss/diet modification, smoking cessation counseling, etc.
Maintains and documents complete medical records and completes patient reports as required.
Participates in the development of written standing orders and/or protocols to be used by the Physician Extender as appropriate.
Completes prescription refills per Collaborative Agreement with supervising physician.
Reviews daily lab and hospital reports with supervising physician and addresses them as appropriate.
Accepts other duties and special assignments as may be designated by the Medical Director.
Sees patients in the office referred for medical management, including EKG, reviewing past medical history, family history, social history, history of present illness, reviewing patient symptoms, review of systems, assessment/medical examination, and plan for continued care.
Schedules patients for further testing including but not limited to echocardiograms, stress test, radiologic studies and laboratory studies.
Provides medication management as well as referrals to other providers as necessary.
Reviews test results with the patient.
Provides counseling and coordination of patient care.
Follows patients within the hospital as consulted, documents, places orders and orders testing as appropriate.