Advanced Practice Provider

Cleveland Clinic’s Integrated Hospital Care Institute is seeking a qualified Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner (Acute Care Certified) to join our dynamic inpatient pulmonary team in a full-time position. This position offers a unique opportunity to work across three specialized service lines: Primary Pulmonary service, Advanced Pulmonary Unit (APU), and the Lung Transplant service to provide comprehensive care to patients with acute and chronic medical conditions. Although each service has a distinct identity, there is a strong interdisciplinary and collaborative relationship between each service line to ensure comprehensive, effective, and optimal patient care.

A provider in this role will manage patients across a wide spectrum of acute illness, ranging from those requiring stabilization and management on a general nursing floor to those needing critical interventions in a transitional intensive care setting. Providers in this role must be prepared to assess, stabilize, and manage varying levels of acuity as patients’ clinical needs evolve. A provider in this role will work collaboratively with pulmonary staff physicians to complete patient evaluation, rounds, results interpretation, decision-making, and treatment implementation. This role requires a set number of varying 10-hour and 12-hour shifts per month between 7 am – 5 pm or 7 am – 7 pm depending on the service line that is covered.

This role is ideal for a motivated and adaptable APP who is eager to contribute to high-quality patient care across diverse inpatient settings. Experience is preferred, but new graduates are welcome to apply. Generous sign-on bonus is available for external candidates with at least 3 years of APP experience!

Nationally certified Advanced Practice Provider who provides primary and/or specialty care in a variety of healthcare settings. Functions in collaboration with the health care team in accordance with certification and licensure. Practice emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention and the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic health problems. Responsible for dissemination of knowledge through instructing, leading and developing educational programs.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts thorough medical histories, performs complete physical examinations (where indicated), initiates appropriate lab, radiology tests or other special tests required for evaluation of illness, and scrutinizes lab data to establish a record of the patient's current health status and to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan.  Works in collaboration with the health care team.
• Performs and interprets common laboratory, radiologic, cardiographic and other routine diagnostic procedures used to identify pathophysiologic processes as credentialed and privileged by the Medical Executive Committee and the Governing Body of the applicable hospitals.
• Performs routine and specialized procedures as credentialed and privileged by the Medical Executive Committee and the Governing Body of the applicable hospitals.
• May prescribe and monitor medications as allowed by license through applicable state board and Cleveland Clinic policies.
• Educates patients and answers questions regarding their disease, treatments, related drug and treatment side effects and hazards.
• Participates in medical team rounds; collaborates with nursing, medical and other healthcare team members regularly to ensure quality patient care.
• Refers patients to specialists as appropriate for consultation or for specialized health resources and treatment.
• Ensures continuity of care by serving as a liaison between patient and other members of the multi-disciplinary care team or with other specialty areas as necessary.
• Participates in quality monitoring thru the review of records and treatment plans for patient outcomes on a periodic basis to assure quality care.
• Facilitates appropriate length of stay, discharge planning and compliance with regulatory standards for inpatient management.
• Supports professional development of the health care team.
• Promotes translation of evidence-based practices, guidelines, and research.
• May conduct research studies.  May assists in data collection and analysis.
• May serve as clinical preceptor for students. May onboard new caregivers.
• Other duties as assigned.

Complexity of Work:

• Excellent analytical and decision-making skills are required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrated competency and the ability to perform advanced assessment and diagnosis.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize the electronic medical record.
• Demonstrates a high standard of moral and ethical behavior.
• Demonstrates compassion and professionalism and a commitment to excellent patient care.
• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgement, and the ability to work independently.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.

Work Experience:

• Related clinical experience preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Typical physical demands include the ability to walk and stand for long periods of time.
• Manual and finger dexterity and eye/hand coordination to perform physical examinations.
• Requires corrected vision and hearing to a normal range.
• Occasionally lifts and carries items weighing up to 50 pounds.
• May require exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.