app burn and wound np or pa-c - , MI, United States - Bronson Battle Creek

Description

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Location

BBC Bronson Battle Creek, BMH Bronson Methodist Hospital

Title

APP Burn and Wound NP or PA-C

Bronson Wound and Hyperbaric Medicine is seeking to hire a Full-time Family Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to support coverage for our wound care centers in Calhoun, Kalamazoo and Van Buren counties.

This position includes:

• Opportunity will include seeing new and follow up patients in the Wound Healing Center and supervising hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatments.
• Primary Location will be Battle Creek
• Candidate must be willing to help cover the system when needed which includes traveling to Battle Creek, Paw Paw, and South Haven, MI.
• This is an employed full-time position

Qualifications

• Ideal candidate will be a Physician Assistant and or Family Nurse Practitioner
• Current Michigan license who has graduated from an accredited program
• Minimum of 1-2 years of recent clinical advanced practice experience
• Wound care certification, previous wound care or surgical experience preferred
• Candidate must also be willing to obtain specialty Burn and Wound care education and certifications, ACLS, and BLS.

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We are striving to employ a diverse workforce to enhance the quality of care we provide and the interactions we have with our patients, families, colleagues and communities.

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Performs comprehensive and problem focused histories and physical examinations, interprets laboratory and radiologic tests. Interprets and correlates subjective and objective patient data, formulating a diagnosis. Under the direction of the physician, reviews patient findings and develops a treatment plan within the scope of practice. Performs above activities in the outpatient and inpatient settings. Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.

Successful completion of a Physician Assistant program

Licensure as Physician Assistant and state DEA license to prescribe medications

Current prescriptive authority and collaborative agreement with oversight physician(s) should also be in place

Must maintain all requirements for medical staff privileges

• Ability to utilize word processing, spreadsheet, presentation programs, and other software relevant to the job
• Regularly communicates clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing (Utilizing SBAR technique)
• Communicates with internal customers such as, physicians, multi-disciplinary team, finance, management and external customers such as, patients, third party payers, community agencies on a daily basis and often simultaneously

Work which produces high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g., interactive and repetitive or small detailed work requiring alertness and concentration for sustained periods of time, the operation of and full attention to a personal computer or CRT between 40 and 70 percent of the time.

The job produces some physical demands. Typical of jobs that include regular walking, standing, stooping, bending, sitting, and some lifting of light weight objects.

• Concurrent Clinical Management
• Coordinates care with the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate implementation of patients' progress towards outcomes, which includes discharge or transfer of care. Acts as a clinical resource for the multi-disciplinary team.

This is accomplished by:
o Assertive coordination among the multi-disciplinary team

o Identifying common patient complications and utilizes appropriate preventative measures.

o Assisting in the development and integration of quality measures/evidence into clinical practice.


Utilization Review:

• Performs an initial comprehensive assessment of the patient to determine if the patient requires a higher intensity of service and requires transfer to a hospital setting.

This is accomplished by:
o Applying knowledge of regulatory and third party payor criteria.

o Utilization Management

o Facilitating timely discharges/transfers to the appropriate level of care.

Clinical Management

• Evaluate and appropriately manage patients.
• Evaluate lab, EKG, imaging studies
• Complete appropriate documentation necessary to support:
• Billing
• Medical care
• Orders
• Progress Notes
• Be available for any nursing questions or to evaluated status changes for patients

Shift

Variable

Time Type

Full time

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Cost Center

7570 Acute Burn Clinic (BBC)

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