Outpatient Surgery - Nurse Practitioner - Abington

Thomas Jefferson University•Montgomery County, PA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Nurse Practitioner works in Jefferson’s Surgery ambulatory practice as an integral member of a multidisciplinary health care team, providing comprehensive care. The role includes assessing patients, developing and implementing individualized plans of care, managing diagnostic testing, documenting care, and coordinating with patients, families, and the interdisciplinary team to support continuity across inpatient and outpatient settings. The advanced practice clinician may respond to changes in patient status and participate in procedural and resuscitative interventions. The clinician may perform advanced procedures consistent with granted privileges and validated competency. The role also includes professional development and practice activities such as mentoring, educating graduate students, engaging with evidence-based practice and research, participating in Advance Practice Grand Rounds and specialty meetings, maintaining continuing education units, and holding membership in a professional organization.

Requirements

Master’s degree.
National Board Certification as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant.
BLS certification.

Responsibilities

Perform and document complete histories and physical examinations.
Order and collect patient data using appropriate assessment techniques and supporting diagnostic information and procedures when indicated.
Respond as a first responder to patient status changes and situations requiring orders, procedural interventions, 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 by ordering, interpreting, performing, and supervising them.
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 practice guidelines and protocols to develop individualized plans of care across the continuum; implement and modify those plans.
Prescribe diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.
Perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation, as applicable.
Document or dictate relevant patient progress, plans, procedures, acute events, transfers, and discharges in the medical record in a timely manner that meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.
Maintain ongoing communication and collaboration with the interdisciplinary health care team.
Communicate with patients, families, and staff to promote continuity of care across inpatient and outpatient settings.
Demonstrate professional practice, including precepting or mentoring and educating graduate students.
Seek opportunities to engage in research and the 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, for all colleagues, including those working less than part-time