Advance Practice Provider, Bariatric Surgery - Sebastian River Hospital

Orlando Health; Orlando (FL); In loco; USD 100.000 - 140.000; Tempo pieno

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Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital in Sebastian, FL seeks an experienced Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) to join Bariatric Surgery and General Surgery teams. The role supports diagnosis, treatment planning, and perioperative care under physician supervision.

Requires NP/PA credentials, Florida APRN or PA license, BLS, and prior perioperative care experience. The hospital emphasizes high-quality care and patient education in a comprehensive setting.

Competenze

• MN or MSN or DNP or PhD or DNS degree in nursing.
• Graduate of accredited physician assistant program.
• Maintains current BLS certification.

Mansioni

• Assists in providing care for patients; participates in perioperative care.
• Performs detailed patient assessments and documents records.
• Dispense/prescribe medication as authorized, with supervision.
• Scrubs with supervising surgeon in operating room.
• Remains in compliance with hospital policies and regulations.
• Provides patient education and coordinates with care teams.

Formazione

MN/MSN/DNP/PhD/DNS (nursing)

Physician Assistant program graduate

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Position Summary

Location: Sebastian, Florida - Sebastian River Hospital

Department

Bariatric Surgery and General Surgery

Status

Full Time

Title

Nurse Practitioner, NP, ARNP, APRN, Physician Assistant, PA, PAC, APP, Advanced Practice Provider

Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital is a comprehensive 178-bed acute-care facility located in Sebastian, Florida. A major hospital expansion in 2020 added 48 private patient rooms and enhanced surgical capabilities with additional operating suites and procedure rooms, new preoperative and postoperative patient bays, and the latestadvanced surgical technology. A full-service ER treats minor to major conditions, including heart attack and stroke, and the hospital has earned Advanced Primary Stroke Center accreditation from The Joint Commission. The hospital also is accredited as a Bariatric Surgery Comprehensive Center by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®), dedicated to enhancing safe and quality care for bariatric patients.

Orlando Health Sebastian River is part of the Orlando Health system of care, which includes award-winning hospitals and ERs, specialty institutes, urgent care centers, primary care practices and outpatient facilities that span Florida’s east to west coasts, Central Alabama and Puerto Rico. Collectively, our team members honor our over 100-year legacy by providing professional and compassionate care to the patients, families and communities we serve. Orlando Health is committed to providing you with benefits that go beyond the expected, with career-growing FREE education programs and well-being services to support you and your family through every stage of life. We begin your benefits on day one and offer flexibility wherever possible so that you can be present for your passions. “Orlando Health Is Your Best Place to Work” is not just something we say, it’s our promise to you.

Position Summary

The Advance Practice Provider practices medicine under the direction of physicians and/or surgeons that helps with all aspects of patient care, including diagnosis, treatments, and consultations

Responsibilities

• Assists in providing care for patients receiving radiation treatments; writes appropriate orders, including those for perioperative orders, narcotics, stimulants, and depressant drugs.
• Performs emergency life-saving procedures in cases such cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, massive hemorrhage, or similar catastrophe.
• Performs daily rounds independently or with attending physicians and/or students.
• Daily tasks to include: Perform detailed H & P examinations and document inpatient H & P and discharge summaries in the medical record. (Must be reviewed and countersigned by supervising medical staff member within 24 hours and may not be substituted for physician H & P).
• Daily tasks to include: Initiate appropriate actions to facilitate implementation of therapeutic plans, consistent with healthcare needs of the patient
• Daily tasks to include: Performs examination for follow-ups and patients receiving radiation treatments.
• Daily tasks to include: Review medical records of patients of the supervising medical staff member.
• Daily tasks to include: Routine patient rounds to monitor and evaluate clinical status; change in status to be reported to supervising medical staff member for management (may not be substituted for physician rounds).
• Daily tasks to include: Notifies attending physician about unusual or unexpected events or problems requiring direct physician consultation.
• Daily tasks to include: Dispense/prescribe medication, as authorized by supervising medical staff member.
• Daily tasks to include: Issue oral and written orders on behalf of the supervising medical staff member, to be reviewed and countersigned by the supervising medical staff member within 24 hours.
• Daily tasks to include: Write or dictate reports and progress notes appropriately in the medical record
• Daily tasks to include: Scrub with supervising surgeon in operating room.
• Daily tasks to include: Remove catheters, drains, sutures, and staples.
• Daily tasks to include: Surgically close wounds, incision and drainage, debridement, dressing (the surgeon must remain in the immediate area).
• Daily tasks to include: Assist physician with special diagnostic procedures and follows the medical staff policies on supervision for the procedure
• Daily tasks to include: Perform advanced cardiac life support. In a medical emergency, the Physician Assistant will act on behalf of the supervising medical staff member to maintain life support until a licensed physician arrives to manage the patient.
• Daily tasks to include: Perform patient education.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Baptist Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Baptist Health policies and procedures.
• Acts as a role model and resource person for staff.
• Participates in review and revision of policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates compliance with standards of regulatory and accrediting agencies.
• Establishes relationships with professionals of other health-related groups within the community.
• Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication with diverse populations, including physicians, employees, patients, and families.

QualificationsEducation/TrainingNurse Practitioner

• MN or MSN or DNP or PhD or DNS degree in nursing.

Physician Assistant

• Graduate of accredited physician assistant program.

Licensure/CertificationNurse Practitioner

• APRN license in the state of Florida.
• After July 1, 2006, licensure applicants are required to have national advanced certification from an approved nursing specialty board.
• Maintains current BLS certification.

Physician Assistant

• Maintain current physician assistant licensure in State of Florida.
• Maintain current BLS/healthcare certification.

Experience

• Specialty experience preferred