Advanced Practice Provider - APRN or PA - Trauma - 3535 Southern Blvd. - Kettering - FT - Kettering Health

Kettering Health is a not-for-profit system of 13 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio. We are committed to transforming the health care experience with high-quality care for every stage of life. Our service-oriented mission is in action every day, whether it’s by providing care in our facilities, training the next generation of health care professionals, or serving others through international outreach.

Campus Overview:

Medical Group   

• Our elite medical group employs more than 700 providers, including physicians and advanced practice providers, throughout the Greater Dayton and Cincinnati areas.   
• Our patients have access to a multidisciplinary professional team to meet all their healthcare needs. From primary care to brain and spine surgery, we provide an extensive range of specialties and expertise, in over 200 locations and ten counties.  
• Working collaboratively across specialties, we offer patients a team-based model of care in which the patient is the most important member of the healthcare team.

Do you want to work with a team of highly engaged healthcare providers where you can make a direct impact on patient care for our community?

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) will work with the trauma/critical care surgeon and multidisciplinary team to provide care for trauma, critical care and general surgery patients across the continuum including emergency department, intensive care, progressive care, med-surg, rehab and outpatient clinic. Daily duties include caring for patients upon arrival to the emergency department, assisting with invasive procedures such as endotracheal intubation, or chest tube insertion, surgical operations, and critical care involving mechanical ventilation. Patients are cared for across the care continuum including intensive care, step-down, medical surgical floor, rehab and outpatient.  The position works closely with multiple disciplines to coordinate the care of the trauma/critical care/general surgery patient throughout the stay.

Educational Requirements:

• APRN: Master’s degree with an Advanced Practice Nursing Focus and National Board Certification required
• PA:  Master’s degree required with the appropriate National Certification.

Knowledge and Abilities:

Required skills include but are not limited to the following:

• Ability to communicate and relate well with staff, physician(s) and the public
• Must have awareness of patient confidentiality and be able to follow directions well from physician and work autonomously with little direction
• Demonstrates positive interpersonal relationships and critical analysis skills.
• Demonstrates ability to multi-task and work under stress
• Maintains competencies and skills of specialty area of practice.
• Demonstrates assessment skills, diagnosis with critical thinking and implementation of a plan of care.
• Professional Role- skill includes clinical reasoning and builds collaborative intra and interprofessional relationships to provide optimal care to patients with complex acute, critical and chronic illness.  Skill of advocating on the behalf of the patient population and the profession through active participation in the health policy process.
• Managing and Negotiating Healthcare Delivery Systems - skill in addressing the development and implementation of system policies affecting services

Trauma and critical care experience required.

Trauma and critical care experience required.