APP, General Surgery

Position Summary

As part of a Team Based Care Model, this APP will provide hospital coverage to support the surgical team to provide prompt consultation and crisis management for the general surgery population.

• Assists in prompt consultations from the emergency department and hospital units
• First assist in the operating room, as well as minimally invasive robotic surgery and general cases
• Perform history and physical examinations and clinical evaluations including provision of preoperative and postoperative care
• Perform hospital rounding, follow-up care, and discharges on surgical population
• Order and interpret laboratory and diagnostic imaging studies
• Order, monitor and/or administer medications, including controlled dangerous substances
• Performs timely follow-up
• Demonstrates ability to solve complex patient problems by making sound clinical judgments based on synthesis of concepts, principles, models, theories, and evidence-based practice
• Ensures timely documentation of clinical findings, impression, and treatment plan
• Serve on call, weekend rotation, and flexible work hours as required

• Always demonstrates and models service excellence behavior. Responds with concern, cooperation, and respect. Establishes cooperative working relationships with all individuals with whom contact is made
• Maintains patient confidentiality
• Utilizes appropriate and effective patient care plans. Completes documentation concurrently as patients are seen
• Assures continuity of care through adequate scheduling and tracking of return visits, completion of treatment plans, and follow-up of chronic problems, abnormal tests, and "no-shows"
• Provides periodic health screening and preventive care including baseline and interval physical exams, cardiac risk appraisals, treatment and interventions. Provides appropriate patient education including clear explanation of treatment; the use and side effects of prescribed medications; health maintenance; and the use of appropriate educational handouts or other written instructions
• Delegates clinical tasks appropriate to the level of training of each staff member
• Provides an accounting of services rendered and accurate, specific diagnosis codes for each patient by completing appropriate billing/reimbursement documentation
• Utilizes infection control and safety protocols appropriately
• Maintains familiarity with practice’s on-site diagnostic procedures and equipment
• Ensures the professional development of self and team, i.e., pursues continuing education opportunities and shares knowledge as appropriate with other members of the health care team; participates in professional organizations; reads professional journals and texts; etc
• Participates in the practice’s on-call schedules as needed. Is available for emergency calls from VMG staff or physicians
• Identifies opportunities to improve processes, reports, or systems that take advantage of cost savings, employee satisfaction, and/or customer satisfaction. Promotes and practices economical and effective healthcare
• Completes in a timely manner all managed care applications, credentialing, and re-credentialing requests from the corporate office
• Abides by guidelines established by all managed care and insurance payors including Medicare
• Participates in the Corporate and office-specific business development and strategic planning process. Supports actions that promote the achievement of VMG's strategic and tactical goals and objectives
• Collaborates, trains and/or supervises Advanced Practice Clinicians within the department as needed

• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program as determined by the Committee on Allied Health. Education and Accreditation or a current Registered Professional Nurse and Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program/master’s in nursing
• Current Certification from the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) or for Advanced Practice Nurses a current Board Certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or from the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) in specialty and Registered Nurse First Assist…