Physician Assistant AdventHealth Parker

Physician Assistant – Family-Centered Care

The Physician Assistant (PA) specializes in family-centered care for infants and toddlers up to age 2, covering all aspects from primary to critical care. Collaborating with healthcare teams, they provide comprehensive services such as history-taking, physical examinations, diagnosis, treatment of acute and chronic conditions, and management of illnesses. This includes ordering and interpreting lab tests and imaging studies, prescribing medications and durable medical equipment, and facilitating necessary referrals.

The PA also emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention, and educates patients and families. They play a leadership role within interdisciplinary teams, promoting effective communication, mutual respect, and collaborative decision-making to ensure high-quality patient care. Integrating the latest evidence-based practices with clinical expertise and patient preferences, the PA strives to deliver optimal healthcare at the organizational level.

• Location: Advent Health Parker Level II NICU
• Position Status: .5 FTE, eligible for benefits
• Shift: Five 24-hour shifts in a six week block
• Salary Information: Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience. Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $ to $

• Family Centered Care:
  • Consistently integrates age specific and culturally diverse concepts into patient care, considering the patient's chronological age and developmental functioning while advocating for the wishes, capabilities, and resources of the family/caregiver.
  • Provides patient/family/caregiver with diagnostic & laboratory results as well as actual/potential benefits, limitations, & adverse effects of proposed therapies.
• Teamwork &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  
  • Provides leadership in care management to achieve optimal quality, cost-effective care.
  • Documents & communicates with healthcare team members to achieve an integrated delivery of pediatric care services.
  • Makes appropriate referrals and discusses recommendations with patient/family/caregiver.
• Quality Improvement:
  • Participates in quality improvement activities or research to improve the care delivery process & patient care outcomes;
    Uses & communicates results to initiate change in practice
• Safety:
  • Is mindful and judicious in monitoring safety, utilizing departmental policies and procedures, utilizing evidence-based practice, and demonstrating critical thinking for patient care management.
  • PA maintains clinical competency (ability to independently manage and perform at a high level, and takes personal responsibility for obtaining competency as needed).
  • Orders, prescribes, and/or performs appropriate treatments, therapies, and procedures based on current knowledge, research, and practice. Monitors and evaluates effects of interventions and orders.
• Informatics:
  • Uses information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error and support decision making.
• Leadership:
  • Takes action to achieve goals identified during performance appraisal & peer review, resulting in changes in practice & role performance
  • Contributes to the professional development of peers/colleagues to improve neonatal health care & to foster the profession's growth;
    Integrates ethical considerations & research findings into practice.
  • Serves as a leader, influencing healthcare/APN practice & policy.

• Degrees:
  • Bachelor's Degree & Master of Physician Assistant studies (MPA) or Master of Science in Physician Assistant studies (MS-PA)
• Experience:
  • Two (2) years' combined experience in neonatal fellowship or as a PA in a neonatal setting
• Licenses &
  
  Certifications:
  
  
  • Colorado Physician's Assistant License (PA)
  • Prescriptive Authority License
  • Board Certification as a PA
  • BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association with at least six (6) months left before expiration is required upon hire
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certificate
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - required only if working at a Children's Hospital Colorado facility

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