Advanced Practice Provider - Peds Infectious Disease

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A Brief Overview
The Advanced Practice Provider is responsible for providing quality care for patients and increasing patient access and satisfaction. Standard tasks to be performed by a NP/PA as specified by the Ohio State Board of Medicine and UH entity specific Medical Bylaws:

What you will do

• Round with inpatient team with ownership of established patients and low complexity
• Patient care would be done under supervision of an attending physician
• Low complexity patients may be followed independently after sufficient training is completed
• Serve as the intake point for new consults and questions for the service
• Round on heme/onc unit for BMT patients without active ID issues but at high risk for complications
• Establishment of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy service to follow discharged patients with PICC lines/home care
• Multidisciplinary clinics for select outpatient visits with other services (orthopedics, neurosurgery, cardiology, etc.) to allow for more convenient follow up times for patients and minimize additional travel
• Assist in management of growing number of COVID-19 patients with complications such as COVID-19 long haul or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)
• Establish penicillin allergy oral challenge testing process with inpatients and select low risk outpatients

General APP Responsibilities

* Initiates and maintains positive relationships w/pts/customers (10%)

* Initiates and maintains positive relationships w/co-workers (10%)

* Takes responsibility for self-development and supports a learning environment (10%)

* Displays commitment to the mission of the hospital and its values (10%)

* Performs patient assessment and assigns diagnosis based on recorded assessment data and current scientific and current research (20%)

* Establishes plan of care and implements interventions in accordance w/carepaths, protocols, and standards of care and current research (15%)

* Collaborates w/other health care providers in an interdisciplinary approach to provide care to the patient and family (5%)

* Contributes to the educational development of staff, patients, family and self (5%)

* Demonstrates progressive leadership and effective management (5%)

* Provides education through role modeling and in-services to meet identified learning needs and to promote professionalism (5%)

* Advances own professional development through self-directed learning, continuing education and participation in peer review (5%)