Job Details

The Advanced Practice Clinician (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) practices in the acute care hospital setting as an integral member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team. In collaboration with physicians and other clinical staff, the APC delivers comprehensive, patient-centered care in both the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Progressive Care Unit (PCU). This role includes rotating coverage between the 12-bed ICU and 10-bed PCU (Intermediate Care Unit), as well as responding to Code Blue events, Rapid Response activations, and stroke alerts during overnight shifts.

Job Description

The Advanced Practice Clinician (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) practices in the acute care hospital setting as an integral member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team. In collaboration with physicians and other clinical staff, the APC delivers comprehensive, patient-centered care in both the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Progressive Care Unit (PCU). This role includes rotating coverage between the 12-bed ICU and 10-bed PCU (Intermediate Care Unit), as well as responding to Code Blue events, Rapid Response activations, and stroke alerts during overnight shifts.

Shift: Rotating, 40%/60% day/night.

  Assessment & Management

• Performs complete history & physicals and documents in the medical record.

• Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.

• The APP may serve as the first responder for both nursing and house staff in the event of patient status changes, orders, and in situations requiring procedural and resuscitative interventions.

• Assesses for risks associated with the care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions and diagnostic procedures.

Diagnosis

• Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.

• Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.

• Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.

• Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions

Formulates Plan of Care

• Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs.

• Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.

• Implements and modifies plan of care.

• Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.

• May perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation.

Communication and Collaboration

• Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team.

• Facilitates and communicates with patient, family, and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.

Documentation

• Documents/dictates key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and or clinic note where applicable. (H & P, daily progress notes, plan of care, problem lists, procedure notes, acute event note, discharge summaries, in medical record per specific patient unit or service, death summary)

• Documentation is timely, meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.

Professional Practice

• Demonstrates professional practice behaviors including preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of graduate students.

• Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice.

• Actively participates in Advance Practice Grand Rounds and specialty specific meetings.

• Maintains CEUs, and membership in a professional organization.

• Master’s Degree

• National Board Certification as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

• BLS & ACLS certification

• APC or nursing experience in critical care preferred

Work Shift

Rotating (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Jefferson University Physicians

Primary Location Address

2301 S Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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