Nurse Practitioner - Hospitalist - Edina, MN
About The Position
Fairview Southdale Hospital seeks a Nurse Practitioner to join their Hospitalist Program. This will be a dual role with responsibilities that include acting as a House provider and Hospitalist. The House Advanced Practice Provider (APP) provides immediate medical care to inpatients, outpatients utilizing hospital outpatient services, and on-site hospital visitors for urgent and emergency situations 24/7. On-site hospitalist physicians are available for back up, however the role is largely autonomous. The Hospitalist APP is comprised of multiple roles including admitting team (2), observation, and rounding. Fairview Southdale Hospital has good ancillary support from dedicated RNs, RN Care Coordinators, Social Workers, Pharmacists, etc. The medical staff is comprised of multiple specialty and subspecialty services who work collaboratively to provide comprehensive medical care to the patients at Southdale.
Requirements
- Graduate of a school of nursing and accredited Adult/Gero, Acute Care, or Family Nurse Practitioner training program
- BC/BE through the AANP or ANCC
- Licensed or ability to obtain APRN license with the Minnesota Board of Nursing
- Ability to obtain and/or maintain DEA certification for the State of Minnesota
- Meet threshold criteria/qualifications for Credentialing and Privileges
Nice To Haves
- 2 years or more of hospital-based experience in ICU, hospitalist or emergency setting.
- 2-3 month training period for inexperienced APPs that would go through ICU, hospitalist, ED, OR, and house physician rotations, in addition to some didactic work.
Responsibilities
- Provides in-hospital medical staff coverage at specified hours as scheduled
- Provides face to face evaluations of in-hospital patients requiring restraint and seclusion
- Responds and leads all rapid response team calls (examples: altered mental status, chest pain evaluation, respiratory distress, cardiac/resp arrest, etc.)
- Responds to, evaluates and treats in-hospital medical/surgical emergencies and/or inpatient related problems including patient injuries
- Provide preliminary interpretation of xrays and/or labs included in emergency work up
- Participates in disaster emergencies, real and/or practice
- See patients exclusively in hospital setting
- Provide day and evening inpatient coverage on a rotating basis
- Responsibility of admissions, assisting with cross coverage, as well as coverage of Observation Unit which is managed by Hospitalist group
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision plans
- life insurance
- short-term and long-term disability insurance
- PTO and Sick and Safe Time
- tuition reimbursement
- retirement
- early access to earned wages
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
