Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant-Emergency Department-32 Hours

Connecticut Children's Medical Center•Hartford, CT

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves completing thorough evaluations of pediatric patients, from neonates to adolescents and young adults, with increasing independence. The practitioner will recommend broad evaluations based on prioritized differential diagnoses, interpret diagnostic study results, and collaborate on care with supervising physicians and the inter-professional team. They will develop interdisciplinary management plans for common diagnoses and continue to develop competencies in core procedures.

Requirements

Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner: Graduate degree in nursing accredited by one of the national certifying bodies in nursing. (Or, on or before December 31, 2004, completion of an advanced nurse practitioner program recognized by a national certifying body for certification as a nurse practitioner.)
Physician Assistant: Graduation from a physician assistant program accredited, at the time of graduation, by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA).
At least 2 years of APP experience.
Current State of Connecticut (Pediatric) Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) licensure. OR Certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, Inc. (NCCPA).
Current State of Connecticut Physician Assistant licensure.
Medical knowledge sufficient to navigate barriers, begin identifying outliers, and adapt plan of care for common and typical scenarios with increasing independence.
Competent in performing core procedures of the department, while increasing in efficiency and their application.
Exemplary written and verbal communication skills with the ability to modify communication strategy/method for the audience and circumstance.
Highly organized in the presentation of essential information.
Ability to tactfully and proactively address concerns and propose solutions.
Ability to maintain composure in increasingly complex or stressful situations and to proactively seek guidance when encountering new or more challenging situations.
Demonstrates accountability for own work and for patient care.
Demonstrates increasing understanding of one’s own role within the larger team.

Nice To Haves

Depending on privileges for role, Basic Life Support (BLS) and/or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification may be required.
Depending on privileges for role, federal DEA and CT controlled substance registration may be required.

Responsibilities

Medical knowledge: Applies an intermediate-level of medical knowledge to common and typical scenarios, incorporating literature to support care.
Diagnostic Evaluation: Recommends broad evaluation based on prioritized focused differential diagnosis and interprets clinical significance of diagnostic study results.
Patient History: Gathers, filters, prioritizes, and synthesizes patient history to develop a differential diagnosis in real-time for uncomplicated or typical presentations.
Clinical reasoning: Organizes clinical facts to compare and contrast diagnoses, resulting in a prioritized differential diagnosis.
Organize and prioritize patient care: Organizes and prioritizes the simultaneous care of multiple patients with efficiency.
Patient management: Develops an interdisciplinary management plan for common and typical diagnoses.
Procedures: Applies increasing competency in core procedures as defined by the clinical department.
Patient and family centered communication: Establishes a culturally competent and therapeutic relationship, communicating with sensitivity and compassion, and incorporating patient/family values.
Interpersonal and team communication: Formulates specific questions for consultation with the supervising physician and uses bi-directional communication within the inter-professional team.
Communication within Health Care System: Concisely documents updated, prioritized, diagnostic and therapeutic reasoning in the patient record and aligns communication type with the message.
Evidence-based and informed practice: Critically analyzes data and evidence, integrated with patient preference, and applies to patient care.
Reflective practice and commitment to personal growth: Proactively seeks feedback and designs and implements a learning plan.
Professionalism: Performs responsibilities thoroughly and timely, maintaining composure in stressful situations, and proactively seeks guidance.
System navigation for patient centered care-coordination of care: Coordinates inter-professional patient-centered care among different disciplines and specialties.
Population and community health: Uses local and regional resources to meet the needs of a patient population and community.
Organizational View: Increasingly aware of one’s role and impact on the broader patient care team.