NP Ambulatory Per Diem - Pre Admission Testing
About The Position
The NP Ambulatory provides assessment, diagnosis, and management for patients in the Pre Admission Testing setting. The role performs complete histories and physicals, gathers and interprets diagnostic information, collaborates with the interdisciplinary care team, and develops, documents, and implements individualized plans of care for acute and complex chronic health needs. The APP may serve as a first responder to patient status changes and may perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and validated competency. The position also requires timely clinical documentation, ongoing communication with patients, families, and care teams, and professional engagement through mentoring, education, evidence-based practice, research, continuing education, and specialty activities.
Requirements
- Master’s degree.
- National Board Certification as a Nurse Practitioner.
- BLS certification.
Responsibilities
- Perform and document complete histories and physicals.
- Order and collect data using appropriate assessment techniques and supporting diagnostic information and procedures.
- Respond to patient status changes and situations requiring procedural or resuscitative interventions, as applicable.
- Assess risks associated with care of acute and complex chronically ill patients, including medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions, and diagnostic procedures.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary health care team to diagnose acute and complex chronic conditions.
- Manage diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
- Formulate prioritized differential diagnoses, diagnose complications, and order appropriate interventions.
- Identify expected outcomes and formulate and document plans of care for complex acute and chronic health care needs.
- Use evidence-based guidelines and protocols in individualized plans of care, and implement or modify those plans as needed.
- Prescribe diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.
- Perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation, as applicable.
- Document or dictate patient progress, plans of care, problem lists, procedure notes, acute event notes, and transfer, discharge, clinic, or other applicable summaries in the medical record.
- Maintain timely documentation that meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.
- Communicate and collaborate with the interdisciplinary health care team and facilitate continuity of care across inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Facilitate communication with patients, families, and staff.
- Precept or mentor and educate graduate students.
- Seek opportunities to participate in research and analysis of evidence-based practice.
- Participate in Advance Practice Grand Rounds and specialty-specific meetings.
- Maintain continuing education units and membership in a professional organization.
Benefits
- Medical insurance, including prescription coverage
- Supplemental insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- Flexible spending accounts
- Retirement plans
- Tuition assistance
- Voluntary benefits, including access to group insurance rates and discounts
- Tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full-time service or two years of part-time service
- Medical insurance, including prescription coverage, is available to all colleagues, including per diem colleagues.
