Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA/Certified Nurse Midwife) - MUSC Lancaster - Department of Women’s Health

Job Description Summary

The successful applicant will be an Advanced Practice Provider interested in working full-time providing care for women’s reproductive health and childbirth. The APP will join a busy and thriving Women’s Health Practice that includes 3 physicians. Our Ob/Gyn group averages about 550 deliveries annually and sees approximately 20 patients daily per provider. As a partner and collaborator with our academic medical center, you’ll have access to advanced technologies such as specialty and sub-specialty diagnostic support, and direct affiliation with clinical centers of excellence, all to better empower you to increase and optimize care locally.

Entity

Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type​

Regular

Cost Center

CC001748 MCRC - Lancaster Womens Health

Pay Rate Type

Hourly, Salary

Pay Grade

Health-33

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Work Shift

Job Description

The successful applicant will be an Advanced Practice Provider interested in working full-time providing care for women’s reproductive health and childbirth. The APP will join a busy and thriving Women’s Health Practice that includes 3 physicians. Our Ob/Gyn group averages about 550 deliveries annually and sees approximately 20 patients daily per provider. As a partner and collaborator with our academic medical center, you’ll have access to advanced technologies such as specialty and sub-specialty diagnostic support, and direct affiliation with clinical centers of excellence, all to better empower you to increase and optimize care locally.

Lancaster, SC is in the Charlotte metropolitan area and ranks as the sixth fastest growing county in the Carolinas. With access to great shopping, restaurants, state parks, golf courses, and a vibrant art community, Lancaster's residents find it easy to live life to the fullest.  Just a short commute of 30-45 minutes to Charlotte, NC for a show, concert or sporting event along with easy access to all the amenities of a major metropolitan city. If you'd like some acreage, your dream home at a reasonable price, or to live on the outskirts of Charlotte, NC, then Lancaster is the place for you.

Fair Labor Standards Act Status: Salaried/Exempt  
Hours per week: 40 hours
Scheduled Work Hours/Shift: Mon-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm

Patient Population Focus: Inpatient, Outpatient,

Patient Population Age Range, 12 years-death

Required Training and Experience   

Required Minimum Training: Completion of an accredited Physician Assistant program and currently licensed or eligible for licensure as a Physician Assistant or completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program and currently licensed or eligible for licensure as an APRN as noted below.

APRN License Type/Certification

• Certified Nurse Midwife, CNM (12-death), medical care for women’s reproductive health and childbirth
• AGPNP/ANP (Adult Gerontology Primary Care NP or Adult NP): Adult pts (13 years to death), stable chronic disease state management or primary care setting.
• FNP (Family NP): (birth to death) Stable chronic disease state management, primary care across the lifespan.

Required Experience: Minimum of 1 year experience as a PA, FNP or CNM.

Preferred Training:

• WHNP (Women’ s Health NP): (12 years to death) OB/GYN services and well women care.
• CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife): OBGYN services and well women care.

Degree of Supervision
Certified Nurse Midwife, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse or Physician Assistant will be assigned a Primary Supervising/Collaborating Physician employed by MUSC and will report directly to this physician.

Required Licensure, Certifications, Registrations

All certifications must be current and complete prior to start date:

• Basic Life Support (BLS).
• If applicable, DHEC and DEA license applications must be started prior to first day.

Job Duties (list job tasks)

Provides direct care to patients through the following activities:

• Takes comprehensive history and performs physical examinations
• Evaluates and treats patients on the basis of history, physical examination, radiological, laboratory, and other diagnostic test results pursuant to the practice agreement or scope of practice guideline
  • Provide prenatal and postpartum care for pregnant women
  • Tend to patients and newborns during labor and delivery
  • Perform routine gynecological care, including exams
  • Educate patients on parenting and