Job Requirements
- Join a multifaceted team that covers neurosurgery, neurocritical care, neurointerventional radiology, and elective neurosurgery cases.
o The Advanced Practice Practitioner's (APP) primary role will cover the neurosurgery 25-hour shifts, o The APP will be trained to cover all aspects of the neuroscience team. o Help ensure full coverage of the neuroscience clinical schedule. o The APP will have the opportunity to train and cross cover other APP lead service lines within Cap Region.
- Perform routine and expanded job descriptions as listed in the provider's collaboration agreement on file with the Maryland Board of Physicians or Maryland Board of Nursing.
- In collaboration with the physician care team, the APP will: o Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive health care services to critically ill patients.
o Obtain medical histories, examine patients, daily rounds, orders and interprets tests, makes initial diagnoses, and orders treatments. o Communicate effectively with attending physicians, other medical teams, team members, and patients and their families. o Administer therapeutic procedures and advanced procedures as noted in the Delineation of Privileges, such as placement of intracranial monitoring systems, extra ventricular drains, VP shunt taps, suturing, and wound care. o Instruct and counsel patients and families. o May first assist in the operating room when necessary.
- Essential Skills include: o Highly effective verbal and written communication skills are required to interact with patient families, departmental units, medical and nursing staff on all essential matters o Ability to handle and triage multiple priorities, work independently, take initiative in achieving expected results, and handle confidential information.
o Demonstrate competence and skill in required tasks and procedures. o Demonstrate skills in making effective decisions, quality improvement activities, problem solving, crisis management, organizing work and meeting deadlines, attention to detail and follow through, resource management, ability to work successfully with diverse types of individuals including management, clinical staff, and the public.
- Meets all team and organizational deadlines for task requests, project/ initiative submissions, evaluations, and compliance items.
- Performs according to Maryland Board of Physician or Maryland Board of Nursing standards and expanded job description procedural protocols.
- Facilitates excellence in quality assurance and the delivery of patient care as part of our High Reliability Organization.
o Provides optimal quality of patient care while following safety guidelines, o Contributes to cohesive group relations; uses open communication to resolve problems in and between departments. o Demonstrate commitment to professional department and organizational core values o Follows Capital Region Health's High Reliability Organization principles of patient safety, zero harm, professionalism, and mutual respect for patients, families, and coworkers. o Identifies possible risks in processes, procedures, devices and communicates the same to those in charge. o Demonstrate effective verbal and written interpersonal skills. o Implements policies, procedures, and standards consistently in the performance of assigned duties. o Develop effective working relationships and maintain good communication with other team members.
- Participates in APP Council meetings, service line specific and general APP meetings and events, and organizational meetings and events.
- Engages in leadership activities including, but not limited to, APP representation on organizational committees, training, education, mentorship of other APPs and other learners.
- Participates in APP educational and other learning opportunities as they arise.
- Demonstrates competence and skill in required tasks and procedures.
o Demonstrates knowledge of and competency in required subspecialty. o Completes at least 50 hours of Category I CME every two years. Complete 32 hours of trauma related CME and 16 hours of stroke related CME. o Performs according to Maryland Board of Physician or Board of Nursing standards and expanded job description procedural protocols. o Maintains a procedure complication rate less than the national average.
Work Experience Minimum Qualifications:
PAs:
Bachelor's degree, graduation from an ARC-PA accredited Physician Assistant program, and certification by the National Commission of Certification of Physician's Assistants are required. Candidate must hold an active Maryland license through the Maryland Board of Physicians.
NPs:
Bachelor's degree, RN experience, and completion of Acute Nurse Practitioner degree. Candidate must hold an active Maryland license through the Maryland Board of Nursing. One year of neurosurgery or neurocritical care experience is preferred. Credentialing must be obtained from UM Capital Region Health's Medical Staff Office and maintenance of
BLS /ACLS
certification is required. ATLS certification preferred.
