Advanced Practice Professional - SNU - Fairmont

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The Advanced Practice Professional (APP) provides high-quality, patient-centered care as a member of the interdisciplinary healthcare team. Working collaboratively with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, the APP assesses, diagnoses, treats, and manages patients within their scope of practice and area of specialty. The APP is responsible for delivering evidence-based care, promoting positive patient outcomes, maintaining professional and regulatory standards, and supporting the clinical, educational, and operational goals of the department and organization.

The Advanced Practice Professional (APP) has coordination and clinical skills required for the comprehensive management of skilled nursing facility patients and inpatient hospitalization, as applicable. The APP coordinates involvement of medical/surgical specialty teams necessary to develop a comprehensive plan for the patient and reviews the plan of care with the other members of the clinical team, participates in directing that care, performs diagnostic/therapeutic procedures, peri-operative services, and coordinates ambulatory management and/or disposition planning/follow-up (as applicable).

The APP participates in the education of residents and medical/nursing students. Provide healthcare services consistent with state law and the requirements of the professional licensing or certification authority and/or hospital privileges, where applicable. Such service may include but are not limited to.

• Graduate of a CCNE accredited nursing program with Master’s Degree in Nursing.
• National Certification by one of the recognized APRN Certification Centers.
• Licensure or eligibility for licensure, as a professional Registered Nurse and Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in West Virginia.
• American Heart Association BLS Certification required with additional Advanced Life Support training at the discretion of the department.
• Fundamentals of Critical Care Support (FCCS) Certification required immediately upon hire based on class availability.
• Acute care experience preferred.
• Eligible new graduates will be considered.

• ACNP preferred, but FNPs will be considered.

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree as a Medical/Surgical (as applicable) Physician Assistant required.
• Graduate of an ARC-PA approved Physician Assistant (PA) training program required.
• Certification by the National Commission for Certification of Physician Assistants required.
• Must be licensed or eligible for licensure by the WV Board of Medicine or WV Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
• American Heart Association BLS Certification required with additional Advanced Life Support training at the discretion of the department.
• Fundamentals of Critical Care Support (FCCS) Certification required immediately upon hire based on class availability.
• Acute care experience preferred.
• Eligible new graduates will be considered.

• Masters level education as Medical/Surgical (as applicable) Physician Assistant preferred.

• Manages comprehensive and individualized care for patients and their families during skilled nursing facility placement and inpatient hospitalization, as applicable.
• Completes daily rounds on hospitalized nursing facility patients; consults and/or pre-procedure/evaluations.
• Completes integrated assessments.
• With the collaboration of nursing facility faculty or by following established clinical…