VCU Health
Advanced Practice Provider – Trauma/Acute Care Surgery
VCU Health, Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23214
Advanced Practice Provider – Trauma/Acute Care Surgery
The Nurse Practitioner role demonstrates a high level of expertise in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of complex responses to health problems, prevention of illness and injury, maintenance of wellness, and provision of comfort. This role assists the health care team with prevention, wellness maintenance, and comfort provision.
Core Responsibilities
Performance Expectation: Pertains to Staff in Licensed Nursing Positions ONLY. Employee must complete 15 contact hours of Continuing Nursing Education during this evaluation cycle. Failure to achieve the required number of contact hours will result in the employee becoming ineligible to receive an overall performance rating above "Fully Meets".
Expert Coaching & Guidance: Plan and implement steps to resolve problems affecting patient care quality and evaluate results. Model patient advocacy, challenge and adapt systems to maximize patient care benefits, and demonstrate advanced assessment skills in disease management and treatment side‑effects.
Recommend goals and interventions based on current literature. Promote individual involvement and development of others, demonstrating expert knowledge to coordinate patient care across inpatient, ambulatory, and home health services throughout the patient’s trajectory.
Develop and evaluate educational materials and teaching interventions for staff, patients/caregivers, and the community. Foster skill development of others and assess, diagnose, and monitor to improve student and staff skills.
Mentor the APN’s role within the health system to promote quality patient outcomes.
Consultation: Maintain a therapeutic relationship with patients, caregivers, and staff; organize and facilitate patient support groups; serve as liaison, translator, and negotiator; utilize routine and unusual therapeutic interventions; promote teamwork through effective communication; recognize the team as integral to patient outcomes; and serve as a consultant in multidisciplinary teams.
Research Skills: Participate in clinical practices for a patient population using evidence‑based practices. Identify research needs, actively participate in and monitor research, utilize findings to develop, implement, and evaluate critical paths and standards of care, and contribute to the profession through research, publications, and educational activities.
Clinical & Professional Leadership: Work with colleagues or professional organizations to advance clinical practice. Use the nurse/patient relationship to affect the health care experience, employ the Performance Improvement Process to address practice and system changes, pursue professional growth through affiliations and certifications, demonstrate mastery of specialty population care, and document patient care holistically. Initiate and participate in educational endeavors, case‑manage target populations, and value patient/family right to quality, cost‑effective care. Serve as a preceptor for advanced practitioners, students, and staff.
Collaboration: Initiate referrals and coordinate the health care team. Collaborate in development, implementation, communication, and monitoring of multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary care plans for complex patients. Structure systems to facilitate these processes, work with others to promote health, network with payers and community resources, and lead or participate in care provision.
Nurse Practitioner: Assess health status through history, physical examination, screening, diagnostics, and therapeutic interventions beyond RN scope; interpret data, develop treatment plans, prioritize therapeutic goals, and incorporate physical, spiritual, cultural, and psychosocial aspects into care. Manage specialty and related disorders, focus on health maintenance for chronically ill patients, initiate emergency procedures, and explore strategies to reduce length of stay and resource use. Use clinical pathways across the care continuum and establish priorities to meet health needs.
Ethical Decision‑Making: Adhere to ethical principles and standards of the organization through the nursing process, clinical judgment, interdisciplinary collaboration, negotiation, mediation, and accommodation. Examine patient values that impact treatment decisions, promote patient rights, and resolve ethical dilemmas with effective communication.
Miscellaneous Responsibilities: Perform other duties as assigned, participate in special projects to support the mission, provide assistance to team members, and accept alternate assignments graciously.
Licensure, Certification, Or Registration Requirements For Hire
Current RN licensure in Virginia or eligibility.
License to practice as NP in the specialty area in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Prescriptive Authority when required.
Licensure, Certification, Or Registration Requirements For Continued Employment
Current RN Licensure in Virginia, credentialed per medical staff by‑laws for the specific job title.
License to practice as NP in the specialty area in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Prescriptive authority when required.
Experience Required
Minimum of two (2) years of experience as an RN.
Experience Preferred
Academic health care experience.
Two (2) years within the specialty practice area in an Advanced Practice Nursing Role or Clinical Leadership Role.
Education/Training Required
Master's Degree in Nursing from an accredited program specific to area of practice.
Applicants with current advanced practice licensure may be within one semester of graduation from obtaining a MSN degree or higher, which must be completed within six months of hire to continue employment.
Independent Action(s) Required
Clinical decision‑making in collaboration with physicians and daily prioritization of activities.
Self‑determined allocation of time spent in patient care and elsewhere.
Physical Requirements (includes Use Of Assistance Devices As Appropriate)
Physical: Lifting 50‑100 lbs.
Other: Exposure to potentially hazardous and infectious substances.
Activities: Prolonged standing, frequent bending, walking (distance), climbing (steps, ladder, other), reaching (overhead, extensive, repetitive), repetitive motion.
Mental/Sensory: Strong recall, reasoning, problem solving, hearing, speak clearly, write legibly, reading, logical thinking.
Emotional: Fast‑pace environment, steady pace, ability to handle multiple priorities, frequent and intense customer interactions, noisy environment, ability to adapt to frequent change.
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Core Responsibilities
Performance Expectation: Pertains to Staff in Licensed Nursing Positions ONLY. Employee must complete 15 contact hours of Continuing Nursing Education during this evaluation cycle. Failure to achieve the required number of contact hours will result in the employee becoming ineligible to receive an overall performance rating above "Fully Meets".
Expert Coaching & Guidance: Plan and implement steps to resolve problems affecting patient care quality and evaluate results. Model patient advocacy, challenge and adapt systems to maximize patient care benefits, and demonstrate advanced assessment skills in disease management and treatment side‑effects.
Recommend goals and interventions based on current literature. Promote individual involvement and development of others, demonstrating expert knowledge to coordinate patient care across inpatient, ambulatory, and home health services throughout the patient’s trajectory.
Develop and evaluate educational materials and teaching interventions for staff, patients/caregivers, and the community. Foster skill development of others and assess, diagnose, and monitor to improve student and staff skills.
Mentor the APN’s role within the health system to promote quality patient outcomes.
Consultation: Maintain a therapeutic relationship with patients, caregivers, and staff; organize and facilitate patient support groups; serve as liaison, translator, and negotiator; utilize routine and unusual therapeutic interventions; promote teamwork through effective communication; recognize the team as integral to patient outcomes; and serve as a consultant in multidisciplinary teams.
Research Skills: Participate in clinical practices for a patient population using evidence‑based practices. Identify research needs, actively participate in and monitor research, utilize findings to develop, implement, and evaluate critical paths and standards of care, and contribute to the profession through research, publications, and educational activities.
Clinical & Professional Leadership: Work with colleagues or professional organizations to advance clinical practice. Use the nurse/patient relationship to affect the health care experience, employ the Performance Improvement Process to address practice and system changes, pursue professional growth through affiliations and certifications, demonstrate mastery of specialty population care, and document patient care holistically. Initiate and participate in educational endeavors, case‑manage target populations, and value patient/family right to quality, cost‑effective care. Serve as a preceptor for advanced practitioners, students, and staff.
Collaboration: Initiate referrals and coordinate the health care team. Collaborate in development, implementation, communication, and monitoring of multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary care plans for complex patients. Structure systems to facilitate these processes, work with others to promote health, network with payers and community resources, and lead or participate in care provision.
Nurse Practitioner: Assess health status through history, physical examination, screening, diagnostics, and therapeutic interventions beyond RN scope; interpret data, develop treatment plans, prioritize therapeutic goals, and incorporate physical, spiritual, cultural, and psychosocial aspects into care. Manage specialty and related disorders, focus on health maintenance for chronically ill patients, initiate emergency procedures, and explore strategies to reduce length of stay and resource use. Use clinical pathways across the care continuum and establish priorities to meet health needs.
Ethical Decision‑Making: Adhere to ethical principles and standards of the organization through the nursing process, clinical judgment, interdisciplinary collaboration, negotiation, mediation, and accommodation. Examine patient values that impact treatment decisions, promote patient rights, and resolve ethical dilemmas with effective communication.
Miscellaneous Responsibilities: Perform other duties as assigned, participate in special projects to support the mission, provide assistance to team members, and accept alternate assignments graciously.
Licensure, Certification, Or Registration Requirements For Hire
Current RN licensure in Virginia or eligibility.
License to practice as NP in the specialty area in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Prescriptive Authority when required.
Licensure, Certification, Or Registration Requirements For Continued Employment
Current RN Licensure in Virginia, credentialed per medical staff by‑laws for the specific job title.
License to practice as NP in the specialty area in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Prescriptive authority when required.
Experience Required
Minimum of two (2) years of experience as an RN.
Experience Preferred
Academic health care experience.
Two (2) years within the specialty practice area in an Advanced Practice Nursing Role or Clinical Leadership Role.
Education/Training Required
Master's Degree in Nursing from an accredited program specific to area of practice.
Applicants with current advanced practice licensure may be within one semester of graduation from obtaining a MSN degree or higher, which must be completed within six months of hire to continue employment.
Independent Action(s) Required
Clinical decision‑making in collaboration with physicians and daily prioritization of activities.
Self‑determined allocation of time spent in patient care and elsewhere.
Physical Requirements (includes Use Of Assistance Devices As Appropriate)
Physical: Lifting 50‑100 lbs.
Other: Exposure to potentially hazardous and infectious substances.
Activities: Prolonged standing, frequent bending, walking (distance), climbing (steps, ladder, other), reaching (overhead, extensive, repetitive), repetitive motion.
Mental/Sensory: Strong recall, reasoning, problem solving, hearing, speak clearly, write legibly, reading, logical thinking.
Emotional: Fast‑pace environment, steady pace, ability to handle multiple priorities, frequent and intense customer interactions, noisy environment, ability to adapt to frequent change.
EEO Employer/Disabled/Protected Veteran/41 CFR 60‑1.4.
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