APP Outpatient
Position Description:
Position Identification
Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
Job ID#:
Job Name:
Clinical Practitioner
Position Category:
Patient Care
Position Purpose
Advanced Practice Nurse
Provides primary or specialty health care services within defined scope of practice in collaboration with a licensed physician and in accordance with MCW/FMLH/CHW policies and procedures.
Department Position Purpose
The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) works as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team, and physicians in providing a broad range of general OB/GYN services.
The APP will have a strong foundation in evidenced based practice and ensures an environment of safe quality care.
Physician Assistant
Provides primary or specialty medical care within defined scope of practice under the supervision of a licensed physician and in accordance with MCW/FMLH/CHW policies and procedures.
Organizational Structure
Location:
Moorland Reserve Health Center
Department:
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Division:
General OBGYN
Supervising / Collaborating Physician:
Abbey Merryman, MD, Shawn Hake PA, and others
Workweek:
Full-time role with expectations for coverage during core business hours and flexibility required as necessary to accommodate business needs.
Job Dimensions
Collegiality
Exhibit confidentiality, honesty, and actions that build trust and strengthen relationships. Listen to others and effectively communicate in a clear and concise manner through written and verbal communication. Demonstrate respect and commitment to the values of diversity and equity; seek out and incorporate diverse perspectives into decision making.
Excellence & Creativity
Exhibit initiative and ingenuity by taking ownership of tasks to proactively improve services, avoid problems, or develop opportunities. Generate novel and valuable ideas to impact missions. Identify and implement new methods to increase efficiency and quality.
Education & Development
Participate in design, development and/or evaluation of instructional materials, methods, courses or programs. Seek out mentorship and learning opportunities. Develop and maintain professional affiliations.
Agility
Resourceful in deviating from the routine; adapt behaviors, priorities and work methods to meet needs of others. Support transformational change to achieve institutional vision and strategies.
Dependability & Judgment
Demonstrate logical, rational, and objective decision making. Use analysis, experience and logic to solve problems and offer solutions and suggestions that are effective in addressing problems. Show reliability and accountability in the successful completion of all work.
Stewardship & Institutional Citizenship
Be an active and thoughtful participant in institutional initiatives, meetings and committee work. Conserve resources and use in an efficient and cost effective manner across all MCW missions. Look for ways to improve and promote quality within area of influence.
Core Responsibilities
- Performs comprehensive histories and physical exams, identifies normal and abnormal findings, including physical, cognitive and psychosocial status.
- Orders and interprets laboratory and diagnostic tests.
- Develops pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical treatment plans.
- Monitors effectiveness of plan of care.
- Educates patients on disease and treatment plans.
- Performs procedures as trained and appropriately credentialed.
- Documents within the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and completes other necessary documents.
- Collaborates and/or consults with physicians and other health care providers as appropriate.
- Educates, counsels, and assists patients and families regarding current health problems, health maintenance activities and preventive behaviors.
Department Specific Responsibilities
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in the management gyn/oncology patients primarily in the ambulatory setting.
- Current and evidence-based knowledge will inform treatment planning and clinical decision making in the management of women’s health.
- Develops expertise in women’s health and gynecologic care.
- Writes accurate and timely progress and procedure notes,
- Order, perform, and interpret screening and diagnostic procedures and tests, and appropriately communicate and document information.
- Privileged to perform procedures as identified by the OB/GYN services such as but not exclusive to biopsy and incision and drainage.
- Facilitates and communicates with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the continuum of care.
- Attend required training and meets key regulatory requirements, including CMS, and The Joint Commission.
- Evaluates quality outcomes for the patients under the care of OB/GYN programs through participation in the development of quality indicators and outcomes dashboard.
Core Competencies
Medical Knowledge
- Makes appropriate decisions based on education, analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment.
- Uses methods that effectively solve difficult problems, explores available resources for answers, identifies obscure problems.
Patient Care
- Uses time effectively and efficiently. Prioritizes. Completes work by required deadlines. Manages and coordinates a wide range of activities.
- Focuses on essentials. Identifies and manages critical needs, and appropriately postpones or delegates less critical activities. Creates focus, identifies impediments to goals for care.
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- Is approachable. Listens. Displays sensitivity, patience, diplomacy and tact in relationships. Builds rapport.
- Relates appropriately to a variety of people in all positions. Creates effective team relationships. Diffuses high stress situations.
- Writes clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings. Creates effective documents and messages.
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
- Applies current research and evidence based practice guidelines to own practice.
- Identifies personal strengths and areas for improvement. Seeks feedback. Gains insight from mistakes. Is open to constructive criticism and is not defensive. Is receptive to discussing areas for improvement.
Systems-based Practice
- Demonstrates functional and technical knowledge and skills to perform the work at the highest level of accomplishment.
- Incorporates other resources in system to provide optimal health care.
Professionalism
- Adheres to ethical principles. Is widely trusted, direct and truthful. Maintains patient confidentiality. Keeps confidences. Owns mistakes. Does not misrepresent self for personal gain.
Background Checks
Employment in this position is contingent upon successfully passing background, criminal history, and caregiver misconduct check in accordance with the Wisconsin Caregiver Background Check Law
Physical Requirements
Work requires considerable variety of fairly steady active physical exertion with some and/or continuous standing or walking.
Risk Potential
Exposure to hazards that may result in short-term work-related absences. Exposure to blood-borne pathogens and hazardous materials.
Sensory Acuity
Ability to detect and translate speech or other communication required. May occasionally require the ability to distinguish colors and perceive relative distances between objects.
Work Environment
May include exposure to conditions requiring the use of personal protective equipment.
Preferred Schedule:
Position Requirements:
Preferred Experience: Prior Women’s Health experience preferred. Zero prior experience required.
Minimum Education:
Advanced Practice Nurse: Master’s Degree or higher in Nursing
Physician Assistant: Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Physician Assistant Studies
Specifications
Minimum Education:
Advanced Practice Nurse
Master’s Degree or higher in Nursing
Physician Assistant
Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Physician Assistant Studies
Prior Experience:
- Zero years of experienced required
- Women’s Health experience preferred
Certifications / Licenses
(Must be current and maintained)
Department Specific Certifications / Licenses
Advanced Practice Nurse
- Wisconsin RN license
- Wisconsin Advance Practice Nurse Prescriber License
- Certification as Advance Practice Nurse
(ACLS and CPR certifications
FOR APNPS:
Certification in women’s health preferred. Will consider adult of family certification.
DEA
Physician Assistant
- Wisconsin PA license
- Certification by NCCPA
MCW as an Equal Opportunity Employer and Commitment to Non-Discrimination
The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students, as well as ensuring equal educational opportunity, employment, and access to services, programs, and activities, without regard to an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, or military status. Employees, students, applicants or other members of the MCW community (including but not limited to vendors, visitors, and guests) may not be subjected to harassment that is prohibited by law or treated adversely or retaliated against based upon a protected characteristic.
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