Acute Care Np Pa Hospitalist
american oncology partners pa
📍 us-tx-houston united states💰 $80,000–$170K/yr🕐 3mo ago🔗 workday
Job Description
**Location:**
Oncology Consultants - Willowbrook
**Pay Range:**
$80,000.00 - $170,000.00
**Position Summary:**
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Assists physician in the care and teaching of patients.
**Key Performance Areas:**
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**KPA 1 – Inpatient support**
* Conduct hospital rounds.
* Assist with admissions and discharges.
* Provide on-call support.
**KPA 2 – Assessment**
* Assess the physical and mental condition of patients by performing and obtaining a comprehensive or problem-focused physical examinations and medical histories.
* Orders, collects, interprets, and evaluates laboratory and other diagnostic tests to assess patient problems and health care needs.
* Prescribe medications and make recommendations for other therapeutic forms of treatment.
* Refer patient to appropriate sources of care as clinically indicated.
**KPA 3 – Documentation**
* Ability to counsel patients concerning medical and psychological/psychiatric conditions, treatment plans, and behavior modification.
* Maintain appropriate records detailing the patient’s treatment plans and outcomes.
* Initiates timely consultation and referral when the problem exceeds the scope of practice and /or expertise.
* Capture charges in a timely manner.
**KPA 4 – Communication**
* Effectively communicate with admitting and referring team.
* Triage and respond to all forms of communication in a timely manner.
* Performs other duties and projects as assigned.
**Position Qualifications/Requirements:**
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**Education**:
* **Graduate from an accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician’s Assistant program**
* Master’s degree required
**Certifications/Licenses**:
* APRN or PA license in appropriate state
* Prescriptive privileges or eligible to apply
* Maintain Board Certification
* Current BLS
**Previous Experience**:
* Minimum 5 years experience as APRN or PA, Oncology required
**Core Capabilities**:
* **Analysis & Critical Thinking:** Critical thinking skills including solid problem-solving, analysis, decision-making, planning, time management, and organizational skills. Must be detailed oriented with the ability to exercise independent judgment.
* **Interpersonal Effectiveness:** Developed interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence, diplomacy, tact, conflict management, delegation skills, and diversity awareness. Ability to work effectively with sensitive and confidential material and sometimes emotionally charged matters.
* **Communication Skills:** Good command of the English language. Second language is an asset but not required. Effective communication skills (oral, written, presentation), is an active listener, and effectively provides balanced feedback.
* **Customer Service & Organizational Awareness:** Strong customer focus. Ability to build an engaging culture of quality, performance effectiveness and operational excellence through best practices, strong business and political acumen, collaboration and partnerships, as well as a positive employee, physician and community relations.
* **Self-Management:** Effectively manages own time, conflicting priorities, self, stress, and professional development. Self-motivated and self-starter with ability work independently with limited supervision. Ability to work remotely effectively as required.
* Must be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, multi-site environment with demonstrated ability to juggle competing priorities and demands from a variety of stakeholders and sites.
* **Computer Skills:**
* Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook required.
**Travel**: 0%
**Standard Core Workdays/Hours**: Monday to Friday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
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