Advanced Practice Provider - Physician Assistant NICU (Full Time, 24-hour shifts) Naples, FL (Healthcare)

Job Summary

The Neonatal Physician Assistant (PA) is primarily responsible in association with the attending physician(s), for management of the high-risk newborns and infants. The PA provides comprehensive direct patient care for high-risk newborns and infants with life threatening or high acuity conditions that require constant monitoring. Responsibilities include completing history and physical examinations, ordering and interpreting radiographic and laboratory test, diagnosing illness, documenting patient care services with EMR, and performing procedures within scope of practice and demonstrated through competency. 

Job Specific Duties

• Diagnoses medical and surgical problems of the high risk newborn. 
  
• Develops, implements, evaluates, monitors, manages, and modifies a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes. 
  
• Ensures plan of care is of sufficient breadth and depth to guide the interdisciplinary team in achieving the desired health outcomes for patients and families. 
  
• Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care across departments and promoting optimal patient outcomes. 
  
• Contributes to the development of peers, colleagues, and others to improve patient outcomes and to promote growth of the nursing profession by facilitating collaboration and communication.
  
• Ensures understanding and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the developmental level of the patient. 
  
• Generates, collects, and integrates data from a wide variety of sources in order to make clinical judgments and decisions about the initiation of orders, procedures, referrals, and treatments. 
  
• Accountable for maintaining current expertise and skills in order to facilitate a high quality of clinical performance and to promote professional growth.
  
• Models professional verbal and written communication with the interdisciplinary team members involved in the ongoing management of patients to optimize patient outcomes. 
  
• Participates in patient care (writing daily progress notes, coordinating clinical care, discharge planning, etc.). 
  
• Writes orders, monitors/alters drug therapies, and performs other procedures with education and experience within established protocol in collaborative relationship with a Physician(s). 

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Minimum Job Requirements

• Master's Degree Master's degree of an approved program leading to eligibility for licensure as a Physician Assistant  
  
• PA - Physician Assistant Current and valid Physician Assistant Licensure with the State of Florida
  
• NCCPA - Ntl Commission on Certif of PA Certification by The National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCPAA)
  
• NRP - Neonatal Resuscitation Program - maintain active and in good standing throughout employment
  
• American Heart Association BLS - maintain active and in good standing throughout employment
  
• Successful completion of Credentialing by NCHS Medical Administration
  
• Level II Background Check Finger printing background
  
• 2 years PA experience or completion of PA NICU Fellowship

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Able to relate cooperatively and constructively with patients, families, and co-workers.
  
• Able to effectively communicate verbally and in writing.
  
• Able to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.
  
• Able to problem solve to formulate a plan of care and evaluate the patient's response to care.
  
• Able to interpret, adapt, and react calmly under stressful conditions.