[ref. a7805602] Advanced Practice Provider- APRN or Physician Assistant

Overview:

Advance Practice Provider (APP), Physician Assistant or APRN

Department: YNHH Hospitalist Service

Each APP has a designated supervising/collaborating physician.

EEO/AA/Disability/Veteran

Responsibilities:

Clinical Practice:

• At the instruction of the APP Manager and Director or his/her designee, assists in the care of medicine inpatients assigned to the Hospitalist Service, ensuring safe, high quality, patient-centered and efficient care.
• Collaborates with attending physicians (Hospitalist Service or Private) to execute patient care. Holds primary responsibility for medical record documentation), ordering tests/procedures and communication with consultants.
• Identifies self in EPIC as covering provider by 8:30 am, or earlier if patient assignments are available. Provides the patient individualized business and/or picture cards and writes name daily on the patient’s white board to identify the practitioner taking care of them on any given day.
• Rounds daily on assigned patients and regularly communicates patient status, results and changes in the plan of care to the attending physician.
• Ensures all patient handoff sections are updated in EPIC for assigned patients by 6:00 p.m.
• Serves as a liaison and interacts with the rehabilitation staff, Food and Nutrition staff, and other ancillary services to ensure timely and comprehensive care for all patients. Attends transition of care rounds daily.
• Serves as a liaison to patients and their families.
• Educates patients and families about transition needs. Completes discharge paperwork, including the W-10 and prescriptions (but not the discharge summary). Reviews discharge instructions with patients and nursing at time of discharge. Coordinates outpatient follow-up.
• Performs necessary invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, as credentialed by Yale-New Haven Hospital Office of Physician Services or under the supervision of an Attending physician

Qualifications:

EDUCATION: Graduate from an accredited Nurse Practitioner or an accredited Physician Assistant Program.

Evidence of current competence to practice as {an APRN, PA, CRNA, CNM} via appropriate reference letters from physicians and other practitioners must be able to be obtained during the Medical Staff appointment process in order to be eligible.

Additional licensure, certifications and/or continuing education credits may be required during employment based on position and area of specialty.

Additional Information:

• Identifies informational needs and maximizes opportunities in the clinical setting for informal education of team members, patients and families.
• Acts as a role model/preceptor for PA students. Provides related teaching and education to PA students from the Yale University School of Medicine Physician Associate Program.
• Assists in orientation to new APPs working for the Hospitalist Service.
• Participates in Hospitalist Service educational conferences.
• Participates in a level of continuing medical education (CME) activity annually that improves the quality of care provided by the Service.