Advanced Practice Professional (PA) Division of Hospital Medicine

About This Role

Join the Division of Hospital Medicine as a temporary Advanced Practice Professional (PA or NP) to provide inpatient medical care across multiple service lines, including the Medical Short Stay Unit. This role involves triaging, evaluating, and managing admitted patients, while collaborating closely with physicians and resident trainees.

Responsibilities

• Assess and triage patients referred for admission from external and internal sources for appropriateness and care destination
• Assess new patients for health and medical history, perform physical examinations, and complete admission documentation
• Manage the care of admitted patients, including ordering diagnostics, medications, and treatments
• Review, interpret, and manage diagnostic data
• Write prescriptions under delegated prescriptive authority
• Perform invasive and non-invasive procedures such as lumbar puncture, paracentesis, thoracentesis, and joint aspirations
• Coordinate and oversee patient transfers between care sites
• Coordinate patient and family communication, including education, discussing goals of care, and delineating code status
• Call consultants and carry out recommended work up and plans of care
• Lead and participate in safety huddles, multidisciplinary rounds, and shift sign-outs
• Perform general medicine consults and round on established patients on the consult service
• Manage patients admitted with COVID-19 in moderate care settings, including high flow oxygen and non-invasive ventilation
• Discharge patients, complete discharge documentation, and communicate discharge plans
• Lead and participate in case conferences and collaborative educational series
• Orient and precept newly onboarding APPs, nurse practitioner students, physician assistant students, and medical students
• Maintain knowledge of medical principles, practices, standards, and techniques

Requirements

• Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner specialty certification in Michigan (for NP) OR Satisfactory completion of a Physician Assistant program accredited by ARC-PA and current license to practice as a Physician Assistant in Michigan (for PA)
• Certification as an Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (for NP) OR Certification by the National Commission on Certification for Physician Assistants (NCCPA) (for PA)
• Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program (for NP) OR Satisfactory completion of a Physician Assistant program accredited by ARC-PA (for PA)
• Current DEA registration
• ACLS certification
• At least 1 year of clinical advanced practice provider employment experience
• Ability to adhere to Michigan Medicine protocols for protecting patients and workforce members in the management of patients with confirmed COVID-19 and PUIs

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program OR Satisfactory completion of a Physician Assistant program accredited by ARC-PA
• At least 1 year of clinical advanced practice provider employment experience

Nice to Have

• At least 2 years of advanced practice employment experience in inpatient internal medicine
• Previous inpatient internal medicine advanced practice employment experience within the last 3-5 years
• Previous observation unit advanced practice employment experience
• Intensive care unit or ED advanced practice employment experience
• Current employment as an advanced practice provider
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently and effectively manage multiple clinical tasks with attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively (oral and written)
• Demonstrated ability to excel in a team-based model of care
• Demonstrated ability to role model professional behavior in all situations
• Demonstrated high level of critical thinking
• Demonstrated high level of motivation to learn and participate in diverse patient care activities
• Able to work a flexible schedule to accommodate job requirements
• Able to physically don and doff PPE required for droplet and airborne isolation
• Ability to perform various diagnostic, therapeutic, and specialty procedures

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