Advanced Practice Professional (PA) Pediatric Surgery Service

• Processing discharges
• Overseeing and coordinating discharge planning needs

This is an Advanced Practice Professional (APP) job opening.

Both qualified NP and PA applicants will be considered.

NPs are directed to apply to job # 257588 and PAs are directed to apply to job # 257589

A total of one (1), 1.0 FTE Advanced Practice Professionals (either NP or PA) will be hired to fill this job opening.

Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.

• Inpatient rounds and table rounds
• Writing orders
• Daily progress notes
• Processing discharges
• Review of studies/lab results
• Overseeing and coordinating discharge planning needs
• Performing ER and inpatient consultations
• Book operating room cases
• Update families about care plans, explain diagnoses/surgical care
• Communicate with nursing staff (pages, phone calls, MiChart chats)
• Communicate changes in patient status with fellows/attendings
• Discuss incoming patients with outpatient providers (pre-admits, pre-op plans)
• Help to coordinate post-operative care. The Advanced Practice Professionals on this service will assist the staff surgeon and clinic nurses with pre-operative consultations, preparing and recording patient histories, performing physical examinations, explaining procedures to patients and families, and directing outpatient care via phone calls.
• Accept transfers from the ICU
• New admissions from the ED
• Assist consult resident with new and established consults and communicating with primary teams
• Obtain any urgent consents for OR
• Perform various procedures as assigned by the supervising physician (e.g. circumcisions, gastrostomy tube replacement and management, Broviac catheter repair and removal, chest tube removal, incision and drainage of wounds, suction rectal biopsy).
• The Advanced Practice Professional will participate in patient care conferences and peer quality review with attending and other staff members to assure quality patient care.
• Function as part of a multidisciplinary team with physicians, RNs, a pharmacist, dieticians, fellows, residents and administrative support staff.
• Assist with traumas
• Duties are not limited to the above description.

• Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner specialty certification in the State of Michigan.
• Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program.
• Certification as a Nurse Practitioner recognized by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN).
• Current specialty certification as an Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Acute Care, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Primary Care (with 2 years of Pediatric Surgery RN/NP experience), Family Nurse Practitioner (with 2 years of Pediatric Surgery RN/NP experience)
• Two years of clinical experience in pediatrics.
• Current DEA registration required
• AHA approved BLS

• Satisfactory completion of a Physician Assistant program accredited by Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) or one of its predecessor agencies, CAHEA or CAAHEP.
• Certification by the National Commission on Certification for Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
• Current license to practice as a Physician Assistant in the State of Michigan.
• State of Michigan Controlled Substance License Required
• Two years of clinical experience in pediatrics.
• Current DEA registration required
• AHA approved BLS

NOTE:

* employment is contingent upon successful completion of the credentialing and privileging process.

In order to be considered for this position the applicant must have met or will have met all the required qualifications prior to the start date of employment.

You must attach a complete and accurate resume to be fully considered for this position.

• 1 year APP experience…