Position Summary:
This is an Advanced Practice Professional (APP) job opening. Two years of APP experience and electrophysiology experience preferred. Will review new graduates if RN experience is acceptable.
The Advanced Practice Professional will provide health care and specialized health services to patients and families enrolled in Electrophysiology Medicine. The APP will coordinate care of this patient population in collaboration with all members of the health care team. This position will be 50% inpatient, 50% outpatient.
The APP will manage and work to support the A-Fib clinic, manage devices, and travel to outreach locations.
Case Load: 100% Adults
# of Exam Rooms: 3
Average # clinic patients seen per day: 14
# of new patients daily: variable
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Independently evaluates patients in the clinic and in the hospital.
- Ordering/interpreting testing and lab results, modifying plan of care to address results.
- Provide clinical expertise and direction to support patient medication management.
- Maintain accurate documentation regarding patient status, evaluations, and treatments to physicians, streamline the patient transfer process between levels of care, including communicating specific patient needs to internal and external team members and other ambulatory care providers.
- Perform other related duties as required to assure patient safety and satisfaction.
- Participate in the development and presentation of educational experiences for patients, families, and health care professionals.
Schedule: 40 hours FT (36 patient contact hours, 4 hours administrative) - 8- or 10-hour shifts. Weekday and weekend coverage both OP clinic and IP. Rotating rounding schedule for weekends; 1:7 may vary with staffing.
Weekend requirement: Rotating IP rounding; 1:7
Call requirement: No
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of clinical operations and procedures.
- Knowledge of drugs and their indications, contraindications, dosing, side effects, and proper administration.
- Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or infection control standards.
- Ability to perform medical examinations using standard medical procedures.
- Life support as required through privileging.
- Ability to clearly communicate medical information to professional practitioners and/or the general public.
- Ability to educate patients and/or families as to the nature of disease and to provide instruction on proper care and treatment.
- Knowledge of current and emerging trends in technologies, techniques issues, and approaches in area of expertise.
- Ability to communicate therapeutically with patients and families.
- Ability to react calmly and effectively in emergency situations.
- Knowledge of related accreditation and certification requirements.
- Ability to make administrative and procedural decisions.
- Skill in preparing and maintaining patient records.
- Knowledge of primary care principles and practices.
Conditions of Employment:
- Employee Health requires all employed providers to complete a health screen per HFHS policy.
- Successful credentialing process.
- Must maintain professional certification status.
- All offers are contingent on credentialing/privileging.
Working Conditions:
Moderate physical activity. Requires handling of average-weight objects up to 25 pounds or standing and/or walking for more than four (4) hours per day. Work environment involves exposure to potentially dangerous materials and situations that require following extensive safety precautions and may include the use of protective equipment.
Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment. Will work with blood or blood-borne pathogens and will require OSHA training.
Minimum Job Requirements:
Education/Training:
- NP - Completion of a Nurse Practitioner training program accredited by the Commission on the Collegiate of Nursing Education (CCNE) or the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC).
- OR
- PA - Completion of a Physician Assistant training program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA).
Continuing Education:
- Applicant must have sufficient education credits to maintain licensure as required by the applicable State of Michigan licensing board.
Certification:
- NP - Certification by a certification body recognized by the State of Michigan.
- PA - Certification by National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
Other:
- Michigan License, or in process of applying (must have proof of application).
- Electrophysiology experience, preferred.
- 2 years of EP experience, preferred.
Qualifications:
- Education/Training:
- NP - Completion of a NP training program accredited by the Commission on the Collegiate of Nursing Education (CCNE) or the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC).
- PA - Completion of a PA training program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the PA (ARC-PA).
- Certification:
- NP - Certification by a certification body recognized by the State of Michigan.
- PA - Certification by National Commission on Certification of PAs (NCCPA).
- Michigan Licensure.
- DEA/CSL as required through credentialing.
- EPIC Experience, preferred.
- BLS / ACLS.
Additional Information:
- Organization: Henry Ford Jackson Hospital
- Department: HF Allegiance Cardiology
- Shift: Day Job
- Union Code: Not Applicable
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