PA/ARNP Hospitalist - Dept of Surgery - Burn Treatment Center

University of Iowa Health Care, Department of Surgery is searching for a PA/ARNP Hospitalist who functions as a healthcare provider who, working collaboratively within the multidisciplinary health team, is responsible for providing comprehensive care to patients in the Burn Treatment Center.

Position Responsibilities:

•    Demonstrates a high degree of clinical expertise in caring for burn patients with acute and chronic illnesses commonly encountered within the field of Burn Surgery; including pre- and post-operative surgical management, post-operative complications and other health needs.
•    Responsible for assessment, diagnosis, treatment, management, education, health promotion, care coordination, and mediates discharge transitions for patients and families with acute and chronic burn and other health needs. 
•    Demonstrates an advanced level of clinical knowledge, communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, professionalism, and systems-based practice. 
•    Works within an interdisciplinary team with administration, nursing, physicians, and university faculty to assure safe, effective, quality patient care and to promote UI Health Care’s educational and research missions. 
•    Provides care within the scope of practice as outlined by state law, licensing, regulations, institutional policy, and practice agreements.
•    May begin practice after credentialing and privileging process has been completed by the University of Iowa Health Care Clinical Staff Office. Active hospital privileges will be required and reviewed on a semi-annual basis to maintain employment within the Department.

Role Expectations:

Patient Care: Practitioners are expected to provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, treatment of disease, and care at the end of life.
•    Admissions, discharges, daily inpatient rounds with multidisciplinary team.
•    Develop and implement inpatient treatment plan with multidisciplinary team, including admission, pre-and post-operative management, and procedures.
•    Ability to write admission, discharge, progress, consult, and clinic notes in an accurate and concise manner with documentation for appropriate billing.
•    Procedures in accordance with privileging process may include, but not limited to, application of casts/splints, bedside US, first assist in OR, I&D, skin harvest, laser procedures, intra-lesional injections, management of postop grafting complications, sharp wound debridement and complex wound care including wound vac placement.
•    Education of patient and family, residents and medical students, nursing staff regarding treatment plan.
•    Help orient and education the new resident team.
•    Participate in research endeavors that seek to improve patient care. 

Medical/Clinical Knowledge: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate knowledge of established and evolving biomedical, clinical and social sciences, and the application of their knowledge to patient care and the education of others.
•    Perform a comprehensive history and physical.
•    Evaluate and interpret pertinent lab and imaging studies.
•    Possess working knowledge of appropriate pharmacology, antibiotic stewardship, and narcotic prescriptive practices.
•    Understand performance improvement to fine turn our care and participate in projects as time allows. 
•    Participate and meet or exceed metrics for OPPE as set forth by UI Health Care Chief Medical Officer and Department of Surgery.

Practice-based Learning & Improvement: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that enable them to establish and maintain professional relationships with patients, families, and other members of health care teams.
•    Participation in Quality Assurance and research endeavors.
•    Development and implementation of clinical guideline protocols and educational materials.
•    Participation in educational and mult