APRN Hospitalist w​/South Hospital

Address
1903 W. Hebron Lane Shepherdsville, KY 40165

The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) provides assessment, management and outcome evaluation for patients in inpatient and outpatient settings. The APRN serves as a resource to educate patients, families, professional nurses, and staff; functions as a liaison between patient, family and UofL Physicians staff; and participates in clinical research. The APRN should demonstrate an advanced level of medical and nursing knowledge, clinical and technical competency, sound clinical judgment, professionalism as it relates to interpersonal and general communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and takes responsibility for ongoing professional development and competency validation.

UofL Health/UofL Health Physicians Group is seeking an experienced APRN Hospitalist to join UofL Health-South Hospital in Shepherdsville, KY. UofL Health-South Hospital is a 40 bed facility, w/ 20 future patient rooms, along with cardiopulmonary, respiratory therapy, and support space!

• Deliver comprehensive outpatient care to adult and senior patients.
• Maintain accurate medical records and documentation.
• Diagnoses and manage moderately to complex medical conditions
• Coordinate referrals and collaborate with specialists.
• Participate in clinical quality improvement programs.
• Work with interdisciplinary teams to ensure excellent care
• Exercise independent clinical judgment in patient management.

• Day shift-40 hours per week
• Annual CME Allowance
• Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
• PTO
• FREE TUITION TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOR DEPENDANTS
• Education:
  
  Master of Nursing degree from an accredited institution.
• Licensure:
  Current licensure in state of Kentucky as an APRN.
• Certification:
  National certification as an Adult Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner, or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Current DEA certificate without restriction
• Current BLS
• Must be ACLS Certified
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities critical to this role:
• Demonstrates the ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual patient care appropriate to the age of patients served by demonstrative knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• Communicates appropriately with the person served regardless of their age.
• Initiative, communicator, problem solver
• Proactive - anticipates and plans for problems before they arise
• Service Excellence – responsive, informs constituents of process, pleasant to work with, educates and provides timely, accurate information
• Organized – manages time effectively, keeps tasks appropriately prioritized
• Flexible – ability to change directions as needed for the good of the department or organization
• Critical Thinking – ability to think through issues and identify appropriate options
• Work Ethic – motivated, diligent, industrious and persistent in the workplace, stays on tasks to completion, works at a fast pace to ensure optimal efficiency
• Maintains a professional appearance at all times.
• Interpersonal – can build effective, strong working relationships with employees, colleagues, management, consultants, and media through trust, communication, and credibility
• Team – ability to work with others, serve others, help others, lead others, mentor others, take directions from others in the interest of moving process and programs forward to the desired outcome.
• Emotional Intelligence – ability to not take issues personal, see the big picture in emotionally charged situations and respond in a mature, professional, composed manner
• Self-Awareness – ability to reflect, understand limitations, and seek appropriate assistance and guidance
• Judgment – exercises discretion and due diligence when making decisions and recommendations
• Quality – is able to perform work in a neat, efficient, well- coordinated, well communicated manner with a high degree of accuracy and professionalism
• Presentation – can speak in front of people to deliver necessary material or messaging

• Must be able to communicate effectively in both verbal and written formats.

• Able…