Nurse Practitioner​/Physician Assistant, Department of Radiology, Interventional Radiology

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The Department of Radiology is atop-tier department with world-renowned faculty andstaff.

Radiology Department is accepting applications forfull-time Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) who will work with a designated supervisor toassist in providing comprehensive, continuous, and personalized care to patients in various areas of interventionalradiology.

This position will work at various locations include West Chester Hospital (WCH), University of Cincinnati Medical Center(UCMC) and other sites on a work schedule from Monday through

Friday, 7:00 am – 5:00 pm

• Understand the indications, alternatives, risks and steps of IR procedures in order to provide this information to patients, family members, referring physicians, physician offices and other healthcare providers
• Perform history and physical examinations prior to IR procedures performed by providers in the Department of Radiology.
• Perform informed consent for IR procedures for outpatient and inpatients
• Perform pre-procedure and post-procedure IR orders
• Perform admitting history and physical and discharge and write orders for inpatients admitted to the IR service
• Provide medication reconciliation, prescribing and discharge for patients undergoing outpatients IR procedures
• Make rounds on inpatients following IR procedures and other patients as scheduled
• Answer telephone calls from patients regarding IR procedures
• Perform evaluation of new inpatient and outpatient IR procedure requests/consultations and review with IR physicians
• Evaluate and coordinate outpatient and inpatient IR procedure requests and address peri-procedural medical and scheduling issues.
  
  Communicate with requesting providers, IR physicians, IR technologist coordinator, and IR scheduler during the workday. InIR cases involving complex interactions between other services(e.g., Anesthesia, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Surgery) facilitate communication and coordination of activities.
• Perform follow up outpatient visits on patients who have previously undergone IR procedures.
• Become knowledgeable in Epic in regard to IR, such as the useof the Status Board…