Advanced Practice Provider (APP, PA, NP), Lung Transplant/General Thoracic Surgery - Full Time, Days - The University of Chicago Medicine

Job Description

Join UChicago Medicine, as a Physician Assistant within the Lung Transplant/General Thoracic Surgery department. At the core of our lung transplant program is a team of internationally known thoracic surgeons who are leaders in the field and are often among the first to perform groundbreaking procedures.

 As an Advanced Practice Provider, you will be responsible for comprehensive direct patient care management and OR surgical assist. In this role, the APP will manage a caseload of patients and exercise autonomous decision making in the assessment, diagnosis and initiation of delegated medical treatments. The scope of practice includes operating room support, consultation, patient management, discharge planning, staff education, consultation and research. The APP will utilize advance practice skills obtained through the completion of a formal provider program. These skills include advanced levels of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care. The APP is also responsible for planning, organizing, and directing patient care efforts in collaboration with medical and surgical physicians and other team members.

Essential Job Functions

• Gathers pertinent information systematically and skillfully from all sources: history, diagnostic tests, comprehensive physical examination, and psycho-social assessments.
• Differentiates normal and abnormal variations for all body systems.
• First assist to the lung transplant/thoracic surgeon with all procedures.
• Assisting in ECMO cannulation and de-cannulation
• Accurately and appropriately performs routine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques according to established protocols and standardized procedures for advanced practice providers.
• Assesses patient and family adaptation, coping skills and the need for crisis or other intervention.
• Accurately interprets diagnostic tests.
• Analyzes multiple sources of data in making clinical judgments and in determining the effectiveness of a plan of care.
• Develops problem lists with associated differential diagnosis.
• Performs bedside procedures as appropriate to the patient’s clinical needs
• Incorporates assessment findings into a plan to direct patient care.
• Formulates a plan of care in collaboration with the patient, family, physician, nursing staff and other member of the health care team, which incorporates health care maintenance, discharge, and follow-up care.
• Assists, on an as needed basis, in other areas such as inpatient care and consultation services.
• Plans and implements appropriate pharmacological therapies.
• Initiates referrals based on patient and family need.
• Seeks appropriate consultation dependent upon patient health care needs.
• Accurately presents and documents the database, impression and plan of care.
• Promotes, has knowledge of and utilizes appropriate patient care protocol relating to the physical, psychosocial and developmental needs of adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Participates in research projects in the practice area.

Physician Assistant (PA) Required Qualifications

• Completion of an accredited (Physician Assistant) educational program
• Certification by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• Current and/or eligibility for State of Illinois licensure/registration
• Certification in ACLS
• Experience using automated IS including but not limited to: keyboards, computer terminals, telephones, battery-operated devices, heat-copying devices, and automated dispensing machines

 Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: 1.0
• Shift: Rotating
• Unit/Department: Transplant Surgery
• CBA Code: Non-Union

Why Join Us

We’ve been at the forefront of medicine since 1899. We provide superior healthcare with compassion, always mindful that each patient is a person, an individual. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine is for you. Here at the forefront, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us. Bring your passion. UChicago Medicine is growing; discover how you can be a part of this pursuit of excellence at:

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Must comply with UChicago Medicine’s COVID-19 Vaccination requirement as a condition of employment. If you have already received the vaccination, you must provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. This is in addition to your compliance with the Flu Vaccination requirement as well. Medical and religious exemptions will be considered consistent with applicable law. Lastly, a pre-employ