Advanced Practice Provider - APRN or PA - Heart Vascular

Kettering Health; Wilmington (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kettering Health seeks an Advanced Practice Provider in Wilmington for a full-time position focusing on heart & vascular health care. Responsibilities include conducting medical assessments, collaborating with healthcare teams, and ensuring quality patient care.

The position requires a Master’s degree with National Board Certification for APRNs or PAs and certifications like BLS and ACLS. Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong communication and assessment skills.

Qualifications

• APRN must hold a Master’s degree with National Board Certification.
• PA requires a Master's degree with relevant National Certification.
• Experience in a relevant healthcare field is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct medical assessments and evaluations.
• Collaborate with healthcare teams on patient care.
• Participate in quality assurance processes.

Skills

Communication skills

Critical analysis skills

Autonomous work

Interpersonal relationships

Assessment skills

Ability to work under stress

Multi-tasking

Education

Master’s degree with Advanced Practice Nursing Focus

Master’s degree for Physician Assistant

Tools

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)

Job description

Job Details

Physician Office l Wilmington l Full-Time l First Shift

Responsibilities & Requirements

Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is a provider of heart & vascular health care services who synthesizes and utilizes evidence-based practice, research, and current clinical knowledge. Working in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The APP demonstrates an advanced level of medical and/or nursing knowledge, clinical and technical competence, sound clinical judgment, professionalism as it relates to interpersonal and general communication skills, timely and complete documentation and take responsibility for ongoing professional development and competency validation. The APP role in partnership with supervising/collaborating physician(s) includes history taking, clinical assessment, and physical examination, and order entry, interpretation of diagnostic studies, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care for the given population. The APP may have On Call duties as assigned by practice. APP will participate in inpatient weekend rotation. Performs other duties as assigned.

Essent Ial Functions

• Physician and APP completed Quality Assurance chart reviews (25 charts for new grad, 10 charts for an established provider) (Must be kept at practice location).
• Evaluates signs and symptoms, including age-appropriate changes, noting pertinent positives and negatives (patient care).
• Assesses the complex acute, critical, and chronically ill-patient and obtains relevant comprehensive and problem-focused health histories, prioritizing data collection and using collateral sources as necessary (medical knowledge and patient care).
• Demonstrates the ability to develop and reformulate as necessary, differential diagnoses by priority, identifies the presence of co-morbidities, and uses diagnostic strategies and technical skills to monitor and sustain physiological function and ensure patient safety.
• Participates in daily team transition huddles to facilitate effective coordinated patient care.
• Utilizes evidence-based practice, along with prescribing appropriate pharmacologic (includes medication reconciliation) and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities; implements treatment and referral orders; interprets and evaluates appropriate lab and diagnostic testing and reports to collaborating physician(s) and health care team members.
• Monitoring and ensuring the Quality of the Healthcare Practice - skill of ensuring quality of care through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation.
• The skill of improving one's own practice as well as engaging in interdisciplinary peer and colleague review.
• Adapts teaching and learning approaches based on physiological and psychological changes, age, developmental stage, cognitive status, readiness to learn, health literacy, the environment, and available resources (professionalism).
• Participates professionally and works collaboratively to identify processes, principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations (system based)

Minimum Education

APRN: Master’s degree with an Advanced Practice Nursing Focus and National Board Certification required

PA: Master’s degree required with the appropriate National Certification.

Required Certifications

• APRN - National Board Certification as a CNP, CNS, CNM, or CRNA (APRN certification to match scope of practice)
• PA- National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification required

Required Licenses

• Current Ohio Board of Nursing license for APRN
• Current Ohio License 50RX – License to practice as a physician assistant with prescriptive authority

Maintain collaborative/supervision agreement as required through the Ohio Medial Board/Ohio Board of Nursing. Includes yearly review/Quality Assurance and evaluations.

Required skills include but are not limited to the following

• Ability to communicate and relate well with staff, provider(s), and the public
• Must have awareness of patient confidentiality and be able to follow directions well from physician and work autonomously with little direction
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively and efficiently document diagnoses, exam findings, and plan.
• Demonstrates positive interpersonal relationships and critical analysis skills.
• Demonstrates ability to multi-task and work under stress
• Maintains competencies and skills of specialty area of practice.
• Demonstrates assessment skills, diagnosis with critical thinking and implementation of a plan of care.
• Professional Role- skill includes clinical reasoning and builds collaborative intra and interprofessional relationships to provide optimal care to patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic illness. Skill of advocating on the behalf of the patient population and the profession through active participation in the health policy process.
• Managing and Negotiating Healthcare Delivery Systems - skill in addressing the development and implementation of system policies affecting services.