What are the responsibilities and job description for the General and Acute Care Surgery Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA)- Nights position at Inova Health System?
Inova Surgery is looking for a full-time General Surgery APP to join our General Surgery Service Team. Inova Surgery is currently looking for a full-time APP to join our General Surgery Service Team. The selected candidate will provide initial assessment, stabilization, and subsequent evaluations as part of ongoing care in the acute inpatient hospital setting for patients requiring admission to, as well as those already admitted.
Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.
Featured Benefits:
- Competitive Compensation Package: Includes a market-competitive base salary, comprehensive performance incentive plan, designed to reward quality, patient access, and clinical productivity. Additionally, opportunities for Sign-On, Retention Relocation
- Committed to Team Member Health: offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
- Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
- Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
- Mental Health Support: offering all Inova team members, their spouses/partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
- Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off, paid parental leave, flexible work schedules, and remote and hybrid career opportunities.
Surgery Advanced Practice Provider Job Responsibilities:
- Respond to emergent/urgent care needs for hospitalized patients within scope of practice
- Provide first response coverage while on duty
- Perform initial assessment of general surgery consults, report findings and implement a treatment plan with the appropriate general surgery attending physician, as necessary
- Elicit a detailed health history and a perform physical examination
- Admit patients to the service
- Order and expedite any necessary diagnostic studies, initiate necessary consultations, provide preoperative risk assessment, and post patients for surgery and other procedures
- Perform general surgery bedside procedures as requested on admitted and emergency department/observation patients within scope of practice
- Irrigation and debridement of open wounds
- Application of simple and complex wound dressings and coverages
- Management of drains
- Perform daily assessments of all patients
- Assist in appropriate discharge disposition
- Document patient encounters, both initial and subsequent visits
- Communicate effectively with the attending physician and other caregivers
- Participate in morning report and sign out sessions
- Actively participate in special projects as deemed necessary by the Chief of General Surgery and Lead APP.
- Review and assist with the development and implementation of policies, protocols, guidelines, and procedures related to general surgery care and systemwide initiatives as directed
- Demonstrate compliance with systemwide and departmental policies, procedures, and mandatory education requirements
- Perform assigned work safely, adhering to established department safety rules and practices; report to appropriate persons any unsafe activities, conditions, hazards, or safety violations that may cause injury to oneself, other employees, patients or visitors
- Consistently behave as a lifelong learner, applying and integrating new knowledge and skills
Additional Requirements:
- Completion of a master's degree program as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or completion of a Physician Assistant program.
- Surgical or inpatient experience preferred.
- License or license eligible in the state of Virginia
- DEA
- BLS
- ACLS
As a recipient of federal financial assistance, Inova Health System (“Inova”) does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or age in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services or benefits under any of its programs or activities, whether carried out by Inova directly or through a contractor or any other entity with which Inova arranges to carry out its programs and activities.
This policy is in accordance with the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and regulations of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued pursuant to these statutes at 45 C.F.R. Parts 80, 84, 91 and 92, respectively.
Salary : $5,250