Advanced Practice Provider (APP, PA, NP), Outpatient Abdominal Surgical Transplant - Full Time, Days

University of Chicago Medical Center; Chicago, Rockville (IL, MD); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a world-class academic healthcare system as an Advanced Practice Provider with a focus on liver transplant care. In this dynamic role, you will provide comprehensive patient management, exercise autonomous decision-making, and collaborate with a dedicated team of medical professionals. This innovative institution values compassion and excellence in healthcare, offering you the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on patients' lives. If you are passionate about advancing medical care and thrive in a collaborative environment, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Completion of an accredited NP/PA educational program is required.
• ACLS certification and state licensure eligibility are essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage patient care for solid organ transplant patients.
• Conduct patient evaluations and interpret laboratory tests.

Skills

Patient Assessment

Medical Decision-Making

Diagnostic Interpretation

Clinical Interventions

Problem-Solving

Education

Accredited Nurse Practitioner Program

Physician Assistant Program

Tools

ACLS Certification

Job description

Job Description

Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system, University of Chicago Medicine as an Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) with our Liver Transplant - Outpatient team at our medical campus in Hyde Park. Here you will be responsible for comprehensive direct patient care management. As an APP, you will manage a caseload of patients and exercise autonomous decision-making in the assessment, diagnosis, and initiation of delegated medical treatments. The scope of practice also includes family support, discharge planning, staff education, and consultation. In this role, you will provide direct support to patients throughout the inpatient stay for all abdominal transplant patients.

This individual will utilize advanced practice skills obtained through the completion of a formal provider program. These skills include advanced levels of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care, as well as performing some invasive procedures. For this position, the APP will be responsible for functions related to the clinical care and management of solid organ transplant patients and others with end-stage organ disease. The APP is also responsible for planning, organizing, and directing patient care efforts in collaboration with medical and surgical physicians and other team members. Based on the specific work group, the individual's responsibilities may encompass the pre-transplant, peri-transplant/inpatient, post-transplant, or all phases of transplant care.

Essential Job Functions

• Taking patient history, conducting examinations, diagnosing illness
• Pre and post-operative patient evaluation and ordering and interpreting laboratory tests
• Ability to exercise autonomy in medical decision-making, provide a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services

Required Qualifications

• Completion of an Accredited Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant educational program
• ACLS certification
• For NPs: Certification by a recognized nursing board and licensed or eligible for licensure in the State of Illinois.
• For PAs: Certification by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) and licensed or eligible for licensure in the State of Illinois.

Preferred Qualifications

• A demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate and communicate among interdisciplinary teams.
• Must be highly proficient and organized with patient examinations and assessments, diagnostic interpretations, clinical interventions, and health care planning.
• Must have effective problem-solving skills.
• New graduates are encouraged to apply.

Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: 1.0, Full-time
• Shift: Days - 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
• Work Location: Hyde Park
• Unit/Department: Liver Transplant
• CBA Code: Non-Union

Why Join Us

We’ve been at the forefront of medicine since 1899. We provide superior healthcare with compassion, always mindful that each patient is a person, an individual. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent, and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine is for you. Here at the forefront, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us. Bring your passion.