WVU Medicine
Advanced Practice Professional - Hospitalist
Full-Time
No salary listed
Entry, Junior, Mid
Bachelor's, Master's
Weirton, WV, USA
In Person
About the job
Requirements
- The nurse practitioner must graduate from a Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education accredited nursing program with a Master's Degree in Nursing.
- The nurse practitioner must hold national certification from a recognized Advanced Practice Registered Nurse certification center.
- The nurse practitioner must be licensed or eligible for licensure as a Registered Nurse and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in West Virginia.
- The physician assistant must hold a Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree as a Medical/Surgical Physician Assistant.
- The physician assistant must graduate from an Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant-approved Physician Assistant training program.
- The physician assistant must hold certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
- The physician assistant must be licensed or eligible for licensure by the West Virginia Board of Medicine or West Virginia Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification is required, with additional Advanced Life Support training at the department's discretion.
- Eligible new graduates will be considered.
- The role requires the ability to provide healthcare services consistent with state law and the requirements of the applicable professional licensing or certification authority and hospital privileges.
- The role requires proficiency with computers.
- The role requires strong communication skills.
- The role requires the ability to lift, move, stoop, reach, position patients, and stand, walk, and carry patients, materials, and equipment weighing 40 or more pounds.
- The role involves working closely with others, protracted or irregular hours, biohazards, infectious diseases, deceased persons, hands in water, and electrical hazards associated with patient-care equipment.
Responsibilities
- Manage comprehensive and individualized care for hospitalized patients and their families during the inpatient phase and plan disposition for immediate post-discharge ambulatory care.
- Complete daily rounds and consultations or pre-procedure evaluations.
- Complete integrated assessments.
- Order additional tests or consultations in collaboration with hospitalist faculty or according to established clinical guidelines and protocols.
- Perform diagnostic tests and communicate their results according to established clinical guidelines and scope of practice.
- Consult and communicate with clinic and hospital staff about abnormal findings in patient evaluations.
- Perform comprehensive clinical evaluations and document findings in the medical record.
- Facilitate patient discharge by coordinating services and tests needed before discharge and for outpatient follow-up appointments.
- Develop individualized plans of care, including teaching, discharge planning, and referrals to other healthcare team members.
- Care for patients across the age continuum consistent with educational experience and certification.
- Identify unstable or complex hospitalized-patient situations and facilitate appropriate intervention.
- Recognize emergency situations and initiate effective emergency care.
- Evaluate general medicine patients and coordinate follow-up, procedures, and tests in the ambulatory setting.
- Assist with collecting outcome measures.
- Use critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning in clinical decision-making to identify, evaluate, and manage individual patient and family needs.
- Use equipment safely.
- Base decisions and actions on scientific principles, standards of care, and research findings.
- Use teaching and learning theory and appropriate teaching strategies to educate nursing staff, hospital staff, students, patients, families, and the community.
- Promote an environment that supports learning by responding to patient and family preferences, priorities, and readiness to learn.
- Update professional knowledge throughout the year.
- Complete all identified clinical competencies.
- Serve as a resource for staff caring for hospitalized patients.
- Provide educational programs to professional and paraprofessional personnel in the area of expertise.
- Participate in community programs and distribute literature as appropriate.
- Document plans of care, interventions, and evaluations clearly and concisely in each patient's medical record according to approved hospital and West Virginia University Medicine policies and documentation standards.
- Collaborate with leaders and staff to achieve patient-outcome improvements in care.
- Provide leadership in developing and implementing changes in cardiology practice that positively affect patient outcomes.
- Work collaboratively with medical and nursing staff to solve problems and provide professional support.
- Participate in and initiate interdisciplinary approaches to patient care, program development, and education, and serve as a professional role model.
- Promote innovation in the expanded role of inpatient and ambulatory care delivery.
- Participate in and provide leadership for committees and task forces.
- Document hours and submit billing reports as appropriate.
- Review and interpret cardiology data from patient registries, clinical and financial reports, length of stay, access to care, and cost-per-case reports, and recommend or implement changes as needed.
- Participate in clinical trials and research studies with the Principal Investigator.
- Assist hospitalist faculty, administrators, and directors in collecting outcome measures.
- Perform other assigned duties and projects.
Desired Qualifications
- Acute care or hospitalist experience is preferred.
- Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner certification is preferred, although Family Nurse Practitioners will be considered.
- Master's-level education as a Medical/Surgical Physician Assistant is preferred.