Advanced Practice Provider Pulmonary and Critical Care

University Hospitals; Cleveland (OH); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Pain Management in Cleveland seeks Advanced Practice Providers (Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants) to work across MICU, six-bed medical stepdown, and the code white/sepsis team, with one APP deployed daily to each area. New grads considered for the New Grad Training Program.

The Advanced Practice Provider is responsible for providing quality care and increasing patient access and satisfaction, adhering to Ohio State Nursing Board guidelines and UH bylaws.

Qualifications

• Advanced Practice Provider delivers quality patient care and increases access and satisfaction.
• Compliance with Ohio State Nursing Board and UH bylaws is expected.

Responsibilities

• Initiates and maintains positive relationships with patients and customers.
• Initiates and maintains positive relationships with co-workers.
• Takes responsibility for self-development and supports a learning environment.
• Displays commitment to the mission and values of the hospital.
• Performs patient assessment and assigns diagnosis based on data and current research.
• Establishes plan of care and implements interventions per carepaths and standards.
• Collaborates with other health care providers in an interdisciplinary team.
• Contributes to educational development of staff, patients, family, and self.
• Demonstrates leadership and effective management.
• Provides education through role modeling and in-services to meet learning needs and promote professionalism.
• Advances professional development through self-directed learning and continuing education.

Job description

The division of pulmonary and critical care is looking for acute care nurse practitioners and PA’s who have a desire to work in three exciting areas. There will be one APP deployed in each area daily. The first is the MICU where you will provide critical care to acutely ill medicine patients rounding with an attending and a resident team. The second location is a six bed medical stepdown run with an attending and an APP. The third area is the code white/sepsis team where you will respond to alerts throughout the hospital as a provider with a nursing team working with you. These alerts are as follows: code white, code sepsis, code blue, code stroke. New grads will be considered for the New Grad Training Program.

A Brief Overview

The Advanced Practice Provider is responsible for providing quality care for patients and increasing patient access and satisfaction. Standard tasks to be performed by a Nurse Practitioner as specified by the Ohio State Nursing Board and UH entity specific Medical Bylaws

What You Will Do

• Initiates and maintains positive relationships w/pts/customers (10%)
• Initiates and maintains positive relationships w/co-workers (10%)
• Takes responsibility for self-development and supports a learning environment (10%)
• Displays commitment to the mission of the hospital and its values (10%)
• Performs patient assessment and assigns diagnosis based on recorded assessment data and current scientific and current research (20%)
• Establishes plan of care and implements interventions in accordance w/carepaths, protocols, and standards of care and current research (15%)
• Collaborates w/other health care providers in an interdisciplinary approach to provide care to the patient and family (5%)
• Contributes to the educational development of staff, patients, family and self (5%)
• Demonstrates progressive leadership and effective management (5%)
• Provides education through role modeling and in-services to meet identified learning needs and to promote professionalism (5%)
• Advances own professional development through self-directed learning, continuing education and participation in peer review (5%)

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
• Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.