Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA): Breast Surgery II

                    

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Job Title

Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA): Breast Surgery II

                        

Location

Weston

                    

Facility

Florida Weston Hospital

                     

Department

Breast Surgery-Weston Hospital

                      

Job Code

001430

                     

Shift

Days

                       

Schedule

8:00am-5:00pm

                       

Job Summary

                         

Job Details

The Weston Breast Surgery Department is seeking a full-time Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner (Adult or Acute certified with RNFA experience preferred) to join the Breast Center Surgery Team at Cleveland Clinic, Weston Campus. This position will involve working with Breast Surgeons in the outpatient clinic setting as well as in the Operating Room as a first assist. This role enhances clinical best practice through a team model where APPs collaborate with Staff surgeons, fellows/residents, nursing and our multidisciplinary consult services ensuring continuity of care for patients, their families and our caregiver staff. In this role, the scope of responsibilities includes, but is not limited to: outpatient clinic with evaluation and management of new, established and post-operative breast surgery patients, order and interpret diagnostic test results, daytime outpatient phone call coverage, care coordination of this patient population in collaboration with members of the plastic surgery team, and first assist in the OR with supervising physician(s). The schedule is Monday-Friday days with no weekends, holidays or call.

First assist OR experience of at least one year, preferred. However, new grads are welcome to apply.

Nationally certified Advanced Practice Provider who provides primary and/or specialty care in a variety of healthcare settings. Functions in collaboration with the health care team in accordance with certification and licensure. Practice emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention and the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic health problems. Responsible for dissemination of knowledge through instructing, leading and developing educational programs.

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, immunizations, 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 regarding their disease, including preventive health maintenance topics such as diet, weight, smoking and topics related to medical specialty, with basic recommendations.

• Educates patients regarding their disease, treatments, related drug and treatment side effects and hazards.

• Participates in medical team rounds; collaborates with nursing, medical and other healthcare team members regularly to ensure quality pati