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Kettering Health

Advanced Practice Provider - APRN or PA - Cardiothoracic Floor - 3533 Southern B

Kettering Health, Kettering, Ohio, United States

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Overview Kettering Health is a not-for-profit system of 13 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio. We are committed to transforming the health care experience with high-quality care for every stage of life. Our service-oriented mission is in action every day, whether it’s by providing care in our facilities, training the next generation of health care professionals, or serving others through international outreach.

Campus Overview Medical Group

Our elite medical group employs more than 700 providers, including physicians and advanced practice providers, throughout the Greater Dayton and Cincinnati areas.

Our patients have access to a multidisciplinary professional team to meet all their healthcare needs. From primary care to brain and spine surgery, we provide an extensive range of specialties and expertise, in over 200 locations and ten counties.

Working collaboratively across specialties, we offer patients a team-based model of care in which the patient is the most important member of the healthcare team.

Responsibilities & Requirements Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is a provider of heart & vascular 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 ongoing professional development and competency validation. The APP role in partnership with supervising/collaborating physician(s) includes history taking, clinical assessment, physical examination, ordering and interpretation of diagnostic studies, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care for the given population. The APP may have on-call duties as assigned by practice and will participate in inpatient weekend rotation. Performs other duties as assigned.

Essential Functions

Physician and APP completed Quality Assurance chart reviews (25 charts for new grads, 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 differential diagnoses by priority, identifies 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, prescribing appropriate pharmacologic 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.

Monitors and ensures the quality of the healthcare practice through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation.

Engages in ongoing professional development and interdisciplinary peer review.

Adapts teaching and learning approaches based on patient factors and health literacy.

Participates in identifying processes to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations (system based).

Minimum Education

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

Required Certifications

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

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification required

Required Licenses

Current Ohio Board of Nursing license for APRN

Current Ohio License 50RX – License to practice as a physician assistant with prescriptive authority

Maintain collaborative/supervision agreement as required through the Ohio Medical Board/Ohio Board of Nursing. Includes yearly review/Quality Assurance and evaluations.

Required Skills

Ability to communicate and relate well with staff, providers, and the public

Awareness of patient confidentiality and ability to follow directions from physicians; ability to work autonomously

Effective documentation of diagnoses, exam findings, and plan

Positive interpersonal relationships and critical analysis skills

Ability to multi-task and work under stress

Maintains competencies and skills of the specialty area of practice

Demonstrates assessment, diagnosis with critical thinking, and plan implementation

Professional role includes clinical reasoning and building collaborative intra- and interprofessional relationships

Advocates for patients and the profession through active participation in health policy

Understanding of healthcare delivery systems and system policy development

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Health Care Provider

Industries

Hospitals and Health Care

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