Nurse Practitioner Physician Assistant Critical Care Specialist

1 month ago


Hackensack, New Jersey, United States Hackensack Meridian Health Full time
Job Title: Critical Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Job Summary:

The Part-time Critical Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant at Hackensack Meridian Health performs the role utilizing the patient-centered coordinated care model demonstrated through the following competencies: leadership, direct clinical practice, consultation/collaboration, coaching/guiding, research, and ethical decision making.

Responsibilities:
  • Leadership:
    • Participates in decisions affecting APRN practice and in opportunities to advance nursing practice within the institution.
    • Seeks opportunities to promote HackensackUMC APRN practice recognition locally, nationally, and internationally at conferences, round table discussions, manuscript publications in journals and texts, and conference presentations (poster and podium).
    • Provides excellence in the patient experience through modeling Service Excellence Standards.
    • Communicates a shared vision with the department of patient care and the department of specialty practice.
    • Participates in APRN interviewing, credentialing, and peer review process as requested.
    • Participates in a minimum of one professional specialty organization.
    • Supports the nursing blueprint by providing evidence of practice outcomes.
    • Displays support of the institutional pillars through systems management, change management, and scholarly practices.
    • Ensures consistency with HackensackUMC nursing protocols, standards of care, and accomplishment of disease specific quality indicators.
    • Provides 24/7 patient care coverage.
  • Evidence-based Practice (direct clinical practice):
    • Applies evidence and value-based practices to achieve positive outcomes for patients and families.
    • Evaluates patient/family transition of care planning for resource utilization, cost, quality, and promotion of self-management for chronic health maintenance.
    • Demonstrates clinical expertise by utilizing advanced assessment and leadership skills.
    • Completes medication reconciliations.
    • Completes annual APN peer review.
    • Evaluates current protocols and standards of care for translation of 'best practice' into clinical practice.
    • Provides culturally diverse and educationally appropriate health management education.
    • Facilitates patient-centered coordinated care through participation at daily interdisciplinary team rounds and staff RN patient rounding.
    • Supports organizational and department of patient care strategies through annual professional cascading goals.
    • Coordinates the development of evidenced-based practice protocols and standards of care that include interventions and treatments to achieve desired outcomes.
    • Aligns practices with the organizational pillars.
    • Analyzes patterns of variance in practice and makes recommendations for evidence based practice changes to improve patient outcomes.
    • Serves as a clinical resource to nursing staff, patients/families, and other multidisciplinary team members across the continuum to evaluate complex patients and identify appropriate interventions and evaluation of outcomes.
    • Identifies practice gaps and initiates practice changes supportive of evidence-based practice 'best practices' with nursing staff within area of practice and population.
    • Participates in policy/procedure reviews for updating with current evidence-based and value-based practices.
  • Consultation/Collaboration:
    • Acts as a resource to staff for addressing clinical, process, and system opportunities for improvement which promote excellence in care and clinical outcomes.
    • Serves as a member of organizational and departmental meetings, work-groups, and committees as requested representing APRNs and/or the department of patient care.
    • Builds credibility with medical staff as nursing experts for patient care, quality of care, and the profession of nursing.
    • Collaborates with medical staff leaders to support nursing-led protocols to enhance the nurse's ability to function at their highest level of education and skill applying 'lean' system and change management principles.
    • Acts as a mentor for APRN and graduate students of other disciplines.
    • Acts as a clinical resource for evidence based practice.
    • Identifies educational needs of patients/families and collaborates with other multidisciplinary team members to implement appropriate teaching materials.
  • Coaching/Guiding:
    • Coaches nursing and other disciplines on applying evidence-based and value-based care.
    • Participates in enhancing RN practice, applying expert clinical skills, through staff RN patient rounding and making recommendations for improvement in inter-shift 'hand-off' communications for assessments, nursing quality indicators, and core measure assessments.
    • Facilitates, coordinates, and participates in formal or informal nursing educational programs as clinical experts.
    • Creates a shared vision for patient and family-centered care by applying shared governance concepts to engage staff and other disciplines in decision-making.
    • Promotes a collaborative work environment which supports the organizational mission, behavior expectations, values, and pillars (quality, people, finance, growth, and service).
  • Research:
    • Utilizes and disseminates relevant research findings through clinical practice, education or consultation.
    • Promotes innovation within clinical practice by seeking opportunities to bring new clinical knowledge into practice.
    • Actively engages in research as a primary investigator or co-investigator.
    • Acts as a mentor and or reviewer for research proposals.
    • Disseminates research findings to enhance the practice of nursing by participating as presenters at conferences locally, nationally, and internationally and through publications.
  • Ethical decision-making:
    • Identifies ethical care issues and coordinates interdisciplinary collaborative meetings to resolve those issues.
    Qualifications:
    • Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
      • Graduate of an NLN/AACN accredited program in nursing.
      • Master's degree.
      • Maintains clinical competencies through participating in continuing educational programs (contact hours per years), and clinical practice as mandated by Board of Nursing and national certification body.
      • Experience in relevant patient care setting or as regulations dictate.
      • In collaborative agreement with physicians on staff- fulfills terms of collaborative agreement.
    • Licenses and Certifications Required:
      • NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.
      • Advance Practice Nurse License.
      • AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification.
      • Maintains Nation or Board Certification as appropriate in area of specialty.
    • Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:
      • Successful completion of an approved physician's assistant program, accredited by the AMA Council on Medical Education.
    • Licenses and Certifications Required:
      • Physician Assistant License.
      • Certification by the National Commission for Certified Physician's Assistants (NCCPA) within one year of initial employment by the Medical Center.

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