Advanced Practice Provider--Inpatient Diabetic Management

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Position Summary

• Responsible for patient care under the supervision of an attending physician.

Education

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Physician Assistant Studies from a CAHEA accredited program

• Master’s Degree in Advanced Practice Nursing Studies from a CCNEA accredited program.

Licenses and Certification

• Current Illinois Licensed Physician Assistant or Advanced Practice Nurse

• Current NCCPA certificate as a Physician Assistant or AACC certificate as an Advanced Practice Nurse

• Physician Assistant or Advanced Practice Nurse practitioner-controlled substance licensure

Role Specific Responsibilities

• Maintains collaborative relationship with supervising physician, ensuring open dialogue and adherence to feedback and recommendations for improvement.

• Serves as facility lead for inpatient diabetes operations.

• Dedicated consultation service for education and management of patients with diabetes.

• Provides direct clinical care for patients with diabetes according to established protocols and utilizes evidence-based practice standards in collaboration with interdisciplinary team.

• Supports the safe and effective use of insulin infusion protocol and transition to subcutaneous insulin regimens in critical care areas.

• Promotes patient-appropriate subcutaneous insulin prescribing in the hospital.

• Works collaboratively with patients to manage use of insulin pumps and other diabetes technology in the hospital.

• Provides education to patients and families for self-management of acute or chronic illnesses, tailoring instructions to patients' individual circumstances. Delegates diabetes education to other members of the diabetes care team, as appropriate.

• Collaborates with interdisciplinary care team for discharge planning for patients with diabetes to improve transitions from acute care to home through diabetes specific discharge recommendations/orders, including medications, diabetes technology, nutrition instructions, referrals, and continuing care instructions.

• Participates in service line planning and coordination.

• Acts as a liaison with other services.

• Performs proper and timely billing for services rendered.

• Ensures that billing and clinical documentation adhere to compliance standards.

• Maintains all required records, reports, statistics, logs, files and other documents as required, including but not limited to payroll, schedules and status changes.

Compensation (Commensurate with experience):

$107,120.00 - $184,995.20

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