Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Full-Time - AVALA Physician Network

Summary

The Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant is responsible for caring for patients, maintaining accurate and current patient records and scheduling and administering follow-up appointments to patients as required. They work as a team with our nurses/medical assistants and physicians in delivering premium care to patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide care to patients acting as an assistant to physicians following established standards and practices.
• Conducts thorough medical histories, performs physical examinations, initiates appropriate lab, radiology tests or other special tests required for evaluation of pain to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan with direct review by a physician.
• Must be able to work with autonomy and under direction of supervising physician.
• Assistant in Orthopedic surgical procedures.
• Assess post-operative patients.
• Perform peer-to-peer conferences and assist with necessary items to obtain authorization.
• Provides information and answers routine questions of patients regarding pain management issues
• Educates patients regarding their pain, treatments, related drug and treatment side effects and hazards.
• Performs appropriate record keeping, completes appropriate patient medical chart, transcribes lab data and routine correspondences.
• Demonstrates compassion and professionalism and a commitment to excellent patient care.
• Document examination results, treatment plans, and patients' outcomes.
• Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition.
• Assess characteristics of patients' pain such as intensity, location, and duration using standardized clinical measures.
• Adhere to CDC prescription guidelines.
• May organize referrals and/or consultations when appropriate.
• Will participate in research and education/training as requested.
• Create and implement individualized care plans according to each individual patients health needs.
• Monitor ongoing therapy and compliance of patients
• Monitor patients to determine how well they are responding to prescribed treatments and make changes to ensure further efficacy.
• Delegate's adequate authority to staff MAs to properly perform assigned responsibilities.
• Complete appropriate encounter documentation and prepare medications to be sent in a timely manner.
• Performs other duties as required by the Medical Director, Staff Physicians, Practice Manager.
• Other duties as assigned/required.

The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job related tasks other than those stated in this description.

Education/Qualifications

• 2 years Orthopedic Experience Preferred.
• Graduation from an approved NP/PA Program.
• Meet Louisiana Licensing requirements applicable to a practicing NP/PA.
• Cardiac Life Support (ACLS PALS) Certification. Current Certification by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners or American Nurse Credentialing Center, (NP), or Current Certification by the National Commission of Physicians Assistants.
• Ability to work within a team and take direction.
• Must be familiar with the EHR medical charting system.
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to demonstrate reliability and responsiveness.
• Demonstrates sound judgment in respecting the confidentiality of patient and employee information.
• Seeks guidance and direction in the performance of responsibilities and duties.
• Promotes and demonstrates exceptional customer service skills.
• Shares and receives information, concerns and feedback in a supportive manner.
• Educated on and compliant with HIPAA regulations; maintains strict confidentiality of client information.
• Complies with Infection Control, Standard Precautions and OSHA standards for the healthcare professional.
• Ability to work effectively within role independently and with other team members.
• Ability to organize and complete work in a timely manner.

Core Competencies

Action Orientation - Targets and achieves results, overcomes obstacles, accepts responsibility, establishes standards and responsibilities, creates a results-oriented environment, and follows through on actions.

Communications - Communicates well both verbally and in writing. Effectively conveys and shares information and ideas with others. Listens carefully and understands various viewpoints. Presents ideas clearly and concisely and understands relevant detail in presented information.

Creativity/Innovation - Generates novel ideas and develops or improves existing and new systems that challenge the status quo, takes risks, and encourages innovation.

Critical Judgment - Possesses the ability to define issues and focus on achieving workable solutions. Consistently does the right thing by performing with reliability.

Customer Orientation - Listens to customers, builds customer confidence, increases customer satisfaction, ensures commitments are met, sets appropriate customer expectations, and responds to customer needs.

Interpersonal Skills - Effectively and productively engages with others and establishes trust, credibility, and confidence with others.

Leadership - Motivates, empowers, inspires, collaborates with, and encourages others. Builds consensus when appropriate. Focuses team members on common goals.

Teamwork - Knows when and how to attract, develop, reward, and utilize teams to optimize results. Acts to build trust, inspire enthusiasm, encourage others, and help resolve conflicts and develop consensus in creating high-performance teams.

Professional Requirements

• Meets dress code standards and adheres to dress code policy.
• Completes annual education requirements.
• Maintains regulatory requirements.
• Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
• Reports to work on time and as scheduled, completes work within designated time.
• Wears identification while on duty, uses computerized punch time system correctly.
• Completes in-services and returns in a timely fashion.
• Attends annual review, department in-services, staff meetings and/or reviews all monthly staff meeting minutes per Health Stream.
• Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner.
• Actively participates in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities.
• Complies with all organizational policies regarding ethical business practices.
• Communicates the mission, ethics and goals of the hospital, as well as the focus statement of the department.
• Promotes professional growth of subordinates by sharing knowledge and/or directing them to sources if information appropriate to given situation. Utilizes journals, books, etc. to learn and/or improve new techniques and equipment.
• Assists other staff members in performing any duty that enhances the delivery of patient care.
• Demonstrates sound judgment in respecting the confidentiality of patient and employee information.
• Seeks guidance and direction in the performance of responsibilities and duties.
• Promotes and demonstrates exceptional customer service skills
• Shares and receives information, concerns and feedback in a supportive manner

Regulatory Requirements

• 2 years Pain Management Experience Preferred
• Graduation from an approved NP/PA Program
• Meet Louisiana Licensing requirements applicable to a practicing NP/PA
• Cardiac Life Support (ACLS PALS) Certification. Current Certification by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners or American Nurse Credentialing Center, (NP), or Current Certification by the National Commission of Physicians Assistants
• Must be familiar with the EHR medical charting system
• Educated on and compliant with HIPAA regulations; maintains strict confidentiality of client information
• Complies with Infection Control, Standard Precautions and OSHA standards for the healthcare professional

Skills

• Basic computer knowledge.
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to demonstrate reliability and responsiveness
• Ability to work effectively within role independently and with other team members.
• Ability to organize and complete work in a timely manner.