The Advanced Practice Clinician within the acute care hospital setting works in collaboration with, and is an integral member of, a multidisciplinary health care team. The APC provides comprehensive care in the Department of General Surgery.
This position rotates and includes overnight shifts.
Assessment & Management
- Performs complete history & physicals and documents in the medical record.
- Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information, and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
- Assesses for risks associated with the care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including: medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, and diagnostic procedures.
- The ability to first assist in the OR when appropriate, as well as, perform bedside procedures.
Diagnosis
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.
- Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
- Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.
- Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions.
Formulates Plan of Care
- Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis, and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs.
- Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.
- Implements and modifies plan of care.
- Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.
- May perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation.
Communication and Collaboration
- Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team.
- Facilitates and communicates with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.
Documentation
- Documents/dictates key components of patient’s progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and/or clinic note where applicable.
- Documentation is timely, meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.
Professional Practice
- Demonstrates Professional Practice behaviors including: preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of graduate students.
- Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice.
- Maintains CEUs, and membership in a professional organization.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s Degree.
- National Board Certification as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant.
- BLS certification.
About Jefferson
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.
Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
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