Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant- Avon Hospital Surgery II

                    

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day.

                        

We all have the power to help, heal and change lives — beginning with our own. That’s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One.

                                    

Job Title

Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant- Avon Hospital Surgery II

                        

Location

Avon

                    

Facility

Avon Hospital

                     

Department

Surgical NP/PA-Avon Hospital

                      

Job Code

T97897

                     

Shift

Day/Evening/Night/Weekend

                       

Schedule

7:00am-5:00pm/11:00am-7:00pm

                       

Job Summary

                         

Job Details

Avon Hospital's Department of Surgery is currently looking to add a full-time Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to their surgical team!

This is a peri-operative position that includes floor coverage of multispecialty surgical patients and first assist in the OR with multiple surgical subspecialties. The floor coverage includes daily rounding, surgical admissions and consults, and bedside procedures. This job includes collaboration with multiple surgical specialists, and working in a strong team-based model. The ideal candidate is highly professional and has at least one year of experience in a high volume hospital based surgical practice. The ideal candidate has direct experience performing comprehensive perioperative assessment, and managing routine and complex perioperative conditions at a high level of autonomy. New graduate applicants would ideally have completed a surgical clinical rotation at Avon Hospital. BLS, ACLS, and DEA will be required for the position. Previous experience with EPIC is a plus.

Who you are:

• Calm under pressure – You respond quickly and accurately in fast moving, complex environments.
• Analytical – You are able to dive into the minutia of issues to find the break in logic.
• Detail Oriented – In your work, you are confident that the small details are correct.
• Flexible – You will be asked to do tasks that are outside of the stated job description. You are willing and enjoy learning on the fly.
• A lifetime learner – You’re driven by innate curiosity and an endless desire to learn. You consider learning a reward. You relish mastering your craft.
• Comfortable with complexity – You absorb complex ideas quickly and easily separate the things that matter from the things that don’t.
• Your confidence is balanced by a sense of humility. You’re more interested in figuring out what’s right than being right.
• You’re a builder - you want to find ways to guide our culture, and push us in new directions we’ve not yet considered.
• You enjoy working as part of a high-performance team.

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 to establish a record of the patient's current health status and to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan.  Works in collaboration with the health care team.
• Performs and interprets common laboratory, radiologic, cardiographic and other routine diagnostic procedures used to identify pathophysiologic processes as credentialed and privileged by the Medical Executive Committee and the Governing Body of the applicable hospitals.
• Performs routine and specialized procedures as credentialed and privileged by the Medical Executive Committee and the Governing Body of the applicable hospitals.
• May prescribe and monitor medications as allowed by license through applicable state board and Cleveland Clinic policies.
• Educates patients and answers questions regarding their disease, treatments, related drug and treatment side effects and hazards.
• Participates in medical team rounds;