Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner

2 months ago


Grand Rapids, United States Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Full time

Summary:

  • The Hospital Medicine Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant works collaboratively with the Hospitalist physician to deliver medical care to hospitalized patients.
  • The focus of the job includes providing acute hospital care to complex medical patients.
  • The NP will work with the interdisciplinary care team in coordinating discharge planning and facilitate the patient's transfer of care back to the primary provider.
  • The NP will consult and make referrals to physicians and other members of the health care team as appropriate.

Essential Job Responsibilities

  • Provides patient care, treatment, and services within the scope of their license, certification or registration and as required by law and regulation.
  • The NP / PA provides comprehensive bedside assessment, writes orders/prescriptions for standard formulary medications, laboratory studies, radiographic studies and consultations, coordinating the scheduling of new patients, diagnostic evaluations, follow-up exams, laboratory tests, referrals to home care, social services, and other community agencies, etc., in order to ensure continuity of care and coordination of services.
  • Develops and maintains effective working relationships with all referral's sources, MFB employees, consulting physicians, and MFBMG physicians and staff.
  • Facilitates professional communication with each employee of the referring hospital, MFB, and the MFBMG.
  • Demonstrates excellent customer service standards and behaviors.
    • Encourages, coaches, and monitors teamwork and direct communication with co-workers.
    • Deals discreetly and sensitively with confidential information.
  • Monitors customer satisfaction and facilitates problem-solving with the Internist, patients and families, and referral sources.
  • Encourages a culture of personal accountability, solution-seeking behavior, mutual respect, open communication, openness to change, enthusiasm and pride.
  • As directed by the Internist, assists with daily patient rounding and assists with medical care within approved protocols.
    • Writes medication orders within approved protocols or in collaboration with the responsible physician.
    • Completes required regulatory documentation in accordance with MFB policies, in collaboration with the responsible physician.
  • As directed by the Internist, assists with discharge planning for patients, and completes discharge orders and writes prescriptions according to approved protocols and within the restrictions of the MFB privileges.
    • Completes the discharge summary in collaboration with the attending physician.

  • Ensures that services are provided in accordance with state and federal regulations, organizational policy, and accreditation / compliance requirements.
  • Performs individual assignments as management may direct.
  • Establishes and maintains effective working relationships within the organization.
  • Provides information to senior levels of management on the implication of policies and procedures being formulated and recommends specific actions.
  • Participates in program development and service recovery as needed.

Essential Job Qualifications

  • Certified and licensed as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) by the State of Michigan.
  • Preferable to have previous experience as NP or PA in Internal Medicine
  • BLS, ACLS, and PALS required
  • Time management and organizational skills
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to respond to a highly variable workload including flexibility of work hours
  • Able to maintain effective communication with multiple physicians and referral hospital employees.
  • Excellent computer skills with specific ability to use Microsoft Office Products, Electronic Medical Record, other applications as necessary
  • Reliable transportation and ability to access area Hospitals on a daily basis

Preferred Job Qualifications

  • Previous experience as a Nurse Practitioner
  • Previous experience functioning in a collaborative role
  • Excellent problem-solving and initiative
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Previous experience in quality improvement and research

Physical Demands:

  • The physical ability to lift, position, and transport patients; the ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, bend, kneel, twist, crawl, grasp, reach, and occasionally climb
  • The ability to hear, speak, write, and see (correctable vision)
  • The ability to frequently lift up to 75 pounds, and occasionally lift in excess of 75 pounds
  • The ability to occasionally push, pull, or carry weight anywhere from 1 to 100+ pounds while assisting patients and moving equipment
  • The ability to exert up to 20-50 pounds of force occasionally, 10-20 pounds of force frequently, and exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Embrace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, by:

  • Treating everyone with dignity and respect
  • Opening more doors to opportunities for underrepresented cultures
  • Growing talent and people
  • Evaluating and eliminating disparities
  • Taking action against injustices, bias and racism
  • Honoring our differences and how to collaborate
  • Educating staff, patients, and the communities we care for
  • Restoring Hope and Freedom, together

Mary Free Bed is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristic.

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