Advanced Practice Providers - APRN or PA - Orthopedics

Advanced Practice Providers - APRN or PA - Orthopedics

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Physician Office | Kettering | Full-Time | First Shift

Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is a provider of orthopedic health care services who synthesizes and utilizes evidence-based practice, research, and current clinical knowledge. Working in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The APP demonstrates an advanced level of medical and/or nursing knowledge, clinical and technical competence, sound clinical judgment, professionalism as it relates to interpersonal and general communication skills, timely and complete documentation and take responsibility for ongoing professional development and competency validation.

The APP role in partnership with supervising/collaborating physician(s) s includes history taking, clinical assessment, and physical examination, and order entry, interpretation of diagnostic studies, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care for the given population. The APP may have On Call duties and/or weekend responsibilities as assigned by practice/department. Performs other duties as assigned.

• Provide same-day or next-day patient appointments to meet hub access targets.
• Independently review, interpret, and apply findings from musculoskeletal X-rays and other basic imaging to inform clinical decision-making.
• Physician and APP completed Quality Assurance chart reviews (25 charts for new grad, 10 charts for an established provider) (Must be kept at practice location).
• Evaluates signs and symptoms, including age-appropriate changes, noting pertinent positives and negatives (patient care).
• Assesses the complex acute, critical, and chronically ill-patient and obtains relevant comprehensive and problem-focused health histories, prioritizing data collection and using collateral sources as necessary (medical knowledge and patient care).
• Demonstrates the ability to develop and reformulate as necessary, differential diagnoses by priority, identifies the presence of co-morbidities, and uses diagnostic strategies and technical skills to monitor and sustain physiological function and ensure patient safety.
• Participates in daily team transition huddles to facilitate effective coordinated patient care.
• Utilizes evidence-based practice, along with prescribing appropriate pharmacologic (includes medication reconciliation) and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities; implements treatment and referral orders; interprets and evaluates appropriate lab and diagnostic testing and reports to collaborating physician(s) and health care team members.
• Monitoring and ensuring the Quality of the Healthcare Practice - skill of ensuring quality of care through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation.
• The skill of improving one's own practice as well as engaging in interdisciplinary peer and colleague review.
• Adapts teaching and learning approaches based on physiological and psychological changes, age, developmental stage, cognitive status, readiness to learn, health literacy, the environment, and available resources (professionalism).
• Participates professionally and works collaboratively to identify processes, principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations (system based).

APRN:
Master’s degree with an Advanced Practice Nursing Focus and National Board Certification required. PA:
Master’s degree required with the appropriate National Certification.

• APRN - National Board Certification as a CNP, CNS, CNM, or CRNA (APRN certification to match scope of practice)
• PA
  - National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required

• Current Ohio Board of Nursing license for APRN
• Current Ohio License 50RX – License to practice as a physician assistant with prescriptive authority

• Demonstrated competency in reading and interpreting musculoskeletal imaging,…