Homecare APC - New Jersey
About The Position
The Homecare APC role involves performing complete history and physicals, ordering and collecting data using appropriate assessment techniques, and serving as a first responder for patient status changes. The position requires managing diagnostic tests, formulating diagnoses and plans of care, and implementing therapeutic interventions. Documentation of patient progress, including daily progress notes, discharge summaries, and procedure notes, is crucial and must meet acute care compliance standards. The role also emphasizes ongoing communication and collaboration with the interdisciplinary health care team, patients, and families to ensure continuity of care. Professional practice behaviors such as mentoring, education, research engagement, and active participation in professional meetings are expected. Maintaining continuing education units (CEUs) and professional organization membership is also required.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree
- National Board Certification as a Primary/Family Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
- BLS certification
Responsibilities
- Performs complete history & physicals and documents in the medical record.
- Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
- Serves as the first responder for both nursing and house staff in the event of patient status changes, orders, and in situations requiring procedural and resuscitative interventions.
- Assesses for risks associated with the care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including: medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions and diagnostic procedures.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.
- Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
- Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.
- Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions.
- Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis, and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs.
- Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.
- Implements and modifies plan of care.
- Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.
- May perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation.
- Documents/ dictates key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and or clinic note where applicable.
- Documentation is timely, meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.
- Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team.
- Facilitates and communicates with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.
- Demonstrates Professional Practice behaviors including: preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of graduate students.
- Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice.
- Actively participates in Advance Practice Grand Rounds and specialty specific meetings.
- Maintains CEUs, and membership in a professional organization.
Benefits
- medical (including prescription)
- supplemental insurance
- dental
- vision
- life and AD&D insurance
- short- and long-term disability
- flexible spending accounts
- retirement plans
- tuition assistance
- voluntary benefits
- tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
