Advanced Practice Provider - Urology - University Hospitals
Elyria, OH
About the Job
Description
To Heal. To Teach. To Discover. At University Hospitals, this is more than just our mission. These words embody the opportunities available to the many world-class doctors, nurses, health care professionals, and support staff that choose to join UH and Be the Difference.
A Brief Overview
The Advanced Practice Provider is responsible for providing quality care for patients and increasing patient access and satisfaction. Standard tasks to be performed by a NP/PA as specified by the Ohio State Board of Medicine and UH entity specific Medical Bylaws:
What you will do
The Urology Institute is looking for an APP to provide hybrid care to Elyria inpatient urologic consults and also provide outpatient care for patients. Responsibilities for the inpatient duties include rounding on patients daily, staffing patients with UH Urology attendings, communicating updates to hospitalist team, and responding to pages from UH Elyria for incoming new consults or questions related to follow up care on current consults during office hours. Outpatient responsibilities include seeing new, established, and post-op visit patients for general urologic conditions including BPH, incontinence, urinary retention, hematuria, kidney stones, UTI, elevated PSA, dysuria, catheter changes and others.
- Initiates and maintains positive relationships w/pts/customers (10%)
- Initiates and maintains positive relationships w/co-workers (10%)
- Takes responsibility for self-development and supports a learning environment (10%)
- Displays commitment to the mission of the hospital and its values (10%)
- Performs patient assessment and assigns diagnosis based on recorded assessment data and current scientific and current research (20%)
- Establishes plan of care and implements interventions in accordance w/carepaths, protocols, and standards of care and current research (15%)
- Collaborates w/other health care providers in an interdisciplinary approach to provide care to the patient and family (5%)
- Contributes to the educational development of staff, patients, family and self (5%)
- Demonstrates progressive leadership and effective management (5%)
- Provides education through role modeling and in-services to meet identified learning needs and to promote professionalism (5%)
- Advances own professional development through self-directed learning, continuing education and participation in peer review (5%)
Qualifications
Education Qualifications
· (MSN) Master's Degree in Nursing, or
· Master's Degree from an accredited PA educational program
Experience Qualifications
· 1+ years as a NP or PA Preferred
Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrated leadership skills. (Required proficiency)
- Demonstrated skills in interpersonal relationships. (Required proficiency)
- Must have computer skills to access patient medical data from UHHS mainframe. (Required proficiency)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Outlook. (Required proficiency)
Licenses and Certifications
- Current Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of Ohio, and
- Nurse Practitioner (NP) in the State of Ohio, or
- Current Physician Assistant (PA) in the State of Ohio
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Required and
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Preferred
Physical Demands
- Standing - Frequently
- Walking - Frequently
- Sitting - Rarely
- Lifting - Frequently (50 lbs)
- Carrying - Frequently (50 lbs)
- Pushing - Frequently (50 lbs)
- Pulling - Frequently (50 lbs)
- Climbing - Occasionally (50 lbs)
- Balancing - Occasionally
- Stooping - Frequently
- Kneeling - Frequently
- Crouching - Frequently
- Crawling - Occasionally
- Reaching - Frequently
- Handling - Frequently
- Grasping - Frequently
- Feeling - Constantly
- Talking - Constantly
- Hearing - Constantly
- Repetitive Motions - Constantly
- Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination - Constantly