Advance Practice Provider (NP/PA) General Surgery Medina I PRN

                    

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Job Title

Advance Practice Provider (NP/PA) General Surgery Medina I PRN

                        

Location

Medina

                    

Facility

Medina Hospital

                     

Department

DDSI General Surgery-Digestive Disease Institute

                      

Job Code

Q99989

                     

Shift

Days

                       

Schedule

7:00am-5:00pm

                       

Job Summary

The Digestive Disease Institute (DDI) is seeking a qualified Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to join our dynamic surgical team within the Department of General Surgery at Medina Hospital. This APP will have the opportunity to work with 4 DDI General Surgeons. They will become an integral part of the team, supporting the surgeons inpatient and outpatient practices.

The daily duties include:
- Inpatient rounding
- Inpatient Consults
- Outpatient General Surgery Clinic seeing low complexity new patients, post op visits, and long term follow ups
- This role will not include time in the OR

The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and work well in a team environment.


APRN: Nationally certified licensed healthcare provider who provides primary and/or specialty nursing and/or medical care in a variety of healthcare settings. Functions in collaboration with a physician according to a standard care arrangement and specialty certification. Provides advanced nursing care to patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic health conditions, including the delivery of acute care services.

PA: Nationally certified licensed healthcare provider who provides primary and or specialty medical care (the practice of medicine) in a variety of healthcare settings. Functions the collaboration agreement of a Physician, (as per O.R.C. 4730) performs complete histories and physicals on patients of all ages to establish and record patient's current health status and to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan to provide continuing medical care, including daily examinations, writing orders, chart notes, discharging patients and completing discharge summaries. This medical care may be in a variety of clinical settings. PA's are privileged by the Board of Governors. PA's in this role provide advanced care to patients with in any setting in which patients require complex, acute, critical and chronic health conditions. Practice in a setting that requires complex monitoring and therapies and high intensity medical/surgical interventions and/or continuous vigilance within the range of high-acuity care.

                         

Job Details

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 on new and former clinic patients and hospital admissions to establish a record of the patient's current health status and to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan.
• Must be able to work with collaborating physician.
• Performs and interprets, at least to the point of recognizing deviations from normal, common laboratory, radiologic, cardiographic and other routine diagnostic procedures used to identify pathophysiologic processes as privileged by CCF Credentialing Board.
• Performs routine procedures such as injections, immunotherapy, suturing and wound care, managing simple conditions produced by infection or trauma, assisting in the management of more complex illness and injury which may include assisting surgeons in conducting operations and taking initiative in performing evaluation and therapeutic procedures in response to life-threatening situations, as privileged by CCF Credentialing Board.
• May prescribe and monitor medications as allowed by prescriptive authority through applicable state Board of Nursing/Medicine and CCF policy.
• Performs specialized procedures, including bone marrow aspirations, biopsies and harvest, blood draws, designated IV starts, spinal taps, thoracentesis and paracentesis as well as other specific procedures as directed by the physician, following approval by CCF Credentialing Board.
• Provides information and answers routine questions of patients regard