Hospitalist, Advanced Practice Provider, North Memorial Health Robbinsdale Hospital - Robbinsdale, MN

Requisition Number: 508094

Become a Hospitalist and advance Practice Provider at North Memorial Health Robbinsdale Hospital!

If you're looking to join a team that works collaboratively, has a calling to empower patients to achieve their best health, and delivers unmatched customer service, you might be the next North Memorial Health Hospitalist Advanced Practice Provider at our Robbinsdale Hospital.

When you join North Memorial Health, you'll serve a wide variety of communities. You will see a wide variety of medical cases with varying acuity levels. What's more, we offer competitive pay and benefits in a community where we're deeply rooted.

Because we are independent, we think differently. Because of our size, we can be creative and agile. We started as a single hospital in 1954 by a doctor who had a vision for the future to do healthcare better, and we've picked that up and run with it. Can a health system make healthcare…healthier? We say yes because we're widely considered a leader in regional health care.

Our Hospitalist APP's work in collaboration and consultation with physicians, staff RNs, and other health care professionals, providing holistic, compassionate care to inpatients and their families and empowers them to achieve their best health. They are a member of the hospital interdisciplinary team and facilitate continuum of care for patients from admission through the discharge process. The hospitalist APP patient load is managed to allow providers to truly focus on their patients' health care.

About this position

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) which may be classified as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA), in collaboration and consultation with physicians, staff RN's and other health care professionals, provides holistic, compassionate care to inpatients and their families. The APP will provide inpatient clinical care to the hospitalist service, practicing within the context of collaboration with a physician(s) in diagnosing, managing, and preventing acute and chronic illness and disease, while promoting wellness. The APP will assist in managing the care of customers hospitalized with complex acute health problems, such as trauma, coronary artery disease, cancer, diabetes and heart failure. The APP will be a member of the hospital interdisciplinary team and facilitate continuum of care for customers from admission through the discharge process, including facilitating the customer's transfer of care back to the primary provider and consult and make referrals to physicians and other members of the health care team as appropriate. The APP will also help organize workload and facilitate provider groups to streamline the care of customers on the service.

What we'll expect from you

• Diagnoses/performs evaluation and management services to customers requiring hospitalist services within the hospitalist practice.

• Participates and leads daily huddles with hospitalist physicians and other practitioners. Assist with assignment of customers amongst the providers and organize daily workload.

• Performs physical examination and clinical evaluation. Assesses customers using physically and technologically derived data, including the evaluation of diagnostic test results and documents assessments in customer record. Recognizes normal and abnormal findings.

• Orders and interprets laboratory and diagnostic tests, such as electrocardiograms, x-rays, ultrasounds, stress tests, cultures, and sensitivities.

• Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, orders pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapeutics and therapies within collaborative agreement established with physician collaborator and based on established competencies.

• Completes admissions from ED.

• Writes progress notes, document customer care and communicates with other care givers, including utilizing the electronic health record.

• Plans and coordinates customers' discharge, rehabilitation, home health care and follow-up, perform dictation of Discharge Summary and Procedure reports.

• Participates in short-term and long-term planning of customer care with members of the inter-professional team.

• Participates in, and sometimes lead, quality improvement and customer satisfaction initiatives.

• Performs such other responsibilities as reasonably assigned by the Hospitalist physicians and within the APP scope of practice.

• Recognizes and complies with legal regulatory, accrediting, and procedural requirements related to area of responsibility.

• Understands and follows principles and standards as outlined in North Memorial's Corporate Code of Conduct.

• Protects customers/team member privacy and only accesses customer/team member related information as need to perform job duties.

• Reports violations or areas of concern to supervisor or Corporate Compliance Officer via established methods of communication.

• Accepts other duties as assigned to promote the accomplishment of organizational goals.

• The team member is accountable to maintain skill proficiency, including improvement where deemed necessary, and upgrading any additional or new skills on the appropriate position skills list.

Interested? Here are our requirements.

Education

• Master's or higher degree in Nursing or completion of a physician assistant program accredited by the Accreditation Review on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA).

• Programs with emphasis on inpatient clinic rotations preferred.

Experience, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• One or more years of experience in a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant role preferred.

• One or more years of experience in hospital acute care medicine preferred (experience in training program will be considered).

• Ability to balance work priorities in a rapidly changing environment.

• Works well independently in addition to being skilled in interdisciplinary collaboration.

• Demonstrates effective written and oral communication.

Licensure/Certification(s) Mandatory

For Physician Assistants

• Current Minnesota Registration/Licensure as a Physician Assistant

• Applicants issued a Temporary Registration by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice may work as a physician assistant but may not prescribe medications. (A temporary registration is granted to physician assistants who have not yet obtained NCCOA certification.)

• Applicants issued a Temporary Permit by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice may work as a physician assistant, including prescribing medications. (A temporary permit is granted to physician assistants who have obtained NCCPA certification.) The PA's sponsoring physician must submit a DEA co-sign letter to the North Memorial Health Care Credentialing Office if applicant does not have a DEA certificate.

• Physician Assistant Certification through National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA). (Applicants may be allowed to complete the credentialing process pending certification if the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice has granted a Temporary Registration.)

• Current medical staff credentials in Specialty/Department

• Current BLS certification

For Nurse Practitioners

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (or Adult & Family)

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing and Nurse Practitioner program

• Current RN license

• Current registration as a nurse practitioner with the MN Board of Nursing

Location

Whether you are looking for a cosmopolitan urban or suburban neighborhood, Minneapolis is nationally recognized as an outstanding place to live. We have award-winning school systems, and an abundance of lakes and parks, affordable housing, and a variety of year-round activities. With the highest concentration of corporate headquarters in a major metro area and research institutions, the Twin Cities area has a cosmopolitan spirit, vibrant international community, and a broad range of cultural institutions. The population of the Greater MSP region (the 16-county Minneapolis-Saint Paul area) is well over 3.4 million and growing. With 22 lakes in the city limits alone, Minneapolis combines a lush green environment with. Music, theater and world-class art, history and culture museums thrive here alongside abundant sports and recreation opportunities.

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Work Group: Non Contract

Hours per two week pay period: 80

Shift: Day/Evening Other

Weekend Requirement: Weekends by Department Rotation

Call Requirement: None

Remote or On-site: On-site

FLSA Status: Exempt

Benefits: Yes