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:** ===================== Assists physician in the care and teaching of patients. **Key Performance Areas:** ========================== **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:** ========================================= **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.  #AONN