Job Details
The advanced practice provider (Acute Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant) within the acute care hospital setting works in collaboration with, and is an integral member of, a multidisciplinary health care team. The APP position will be supporting the Acute Care Surgery (ACS) Service within the Division of Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.
Job Description
Job/Practice Description
Busy Acute Care Surgical service in the hospital setting
Patient population includes complex surgical patients requiring perioperative and post-operative care
Specific duties include first-assisting in the operating room, inpatient management, and collaboration with the multidisciplinary.
Assessment & Management
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
First-assisting in the operating room is an essential component of this role.
May serve as 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 risks associated with care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including: medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid/electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions, and diagnostic procedures
Diagnosis
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
Formulates Plan of Care
Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis, and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs
Utilizes evidence-based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care 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
Communication and Collaboration
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
Documentation
Documents/dictates key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and/or clinic note where applicable (H&P, daily progress notes, plan of care, problem lists, procedure notes, acute event note, discharge summaries, death summary)
Documentation is timely, meets acute care compliance standards, and captures patient acuity
Professional Practice
Demonstrates professional practice behaviors including preceptor/mentoring, education, and instruction of graduate students
Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidence-based practice
Actively participates in Advance Practice Grand Rounds and specialty-specific meetings
Maintains CEUs, and membership in a professional organization
Qualifications
Work Shift
Workday Day (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Primary Location Address
5501 Old York Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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