Advanced Practice Provider - Urology

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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

The Urology Institute is looking for an APP to provide hybrid care to Elyria inpatient urologic consults and also provide outpatient care for patients. Responsibilities for the inpatient duties include rounding on patients daily, staffing patients with UH Urology attendings, communicating updates to hospitalist team, and responding to pages from UH Elyria for incoming new consults or questions related to follow up care on current consults during office hours. Outpatient responsibilities include seeing new, established, and post-op visit patients for general urologic conditions including BPH, incontinence, urinary retention, hematuria, kidney stones, UTI, elevated PSA, dysuria, catheter changes and others.

• 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%)