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POSITION SUMMARY

Work in conjunction with the Pediatric faculty to provide medical care for pediatric patients in Wesley Hospital Pediatric Units with possible coverage to Pediatric Faculty Clinic.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statement(s)

General Guidelines:

• Carry out all delegated medical processes and procedures when a licensed physician is immediately available, except during patient emergencies when independent life-saving medical procedures may be performed.
• Perform all medical chart documentation with physician oversight.
• Collaborate on an ongoing basis with the supervising physician to discuss and review the hospital course and plan of care for each patient.
• Participate in daily formal presentation of patient problems, evaluation, and plan of care with the attending pediatrician and resident team. Provide additional brief updates and presentations to the attending and/or resident team as new problems arise and the resident team at checkout.

{=html} <!-- --> - APP shall complete all billing and medical records documentation within thirty (30) business days of the patient visit or less time if required by an insurance company, other payor of services, or the hospital or institution at which APP is performing services. - Reliable Attendance and Punctuality.

New Patients:

• Obtain necessary prenatal, intrapartum, and/or post-natal history as well as a history of present illness and other components of a history when applicable to enable care to be given.

• Perform necessary procedures or therapies to ensure stabilization.

• Perform admission physical examination. Initiate and/or complete all necessary forms to document and facilitate care including admission orders and computerized data base

• Formulate patient care diagnoses and goals based upon physical assessment, historical data, laboratory and radiographic studies

• Develop plan of care based on diagnoses and goals (long and short) in collaboration with the attending physician.

• • Order and interpret laboratory, radiographic, and other diagnostic data. Orders will be signed as follows: First Name, Last Name, APRN
  • Perform diagnostic procedures including, but not limited to: vein or artery puncture and lumbar puncture. At any time, the APRN believes he/she has not had enough recent experience to feel competent; an attending physician is immediately available to supervise the APRN or perform the procedure him/herself.
  • Initiate and direct support of the respiratory system including oxygen therapy and drug therapy. Orders for controlled substances require physician signature
  • Select and institute fluid, blood products and/or nutritional support as clinically necessary.
  • Monitor for infection and institute necessary antibiotic and supportive therapies.

• Establish contact with family; share responsibility with the attending physician for communicating patient problems, status and plans.

• • Assess level of understanding and emotional status to provide appropriate communication, information and emotional support.
  • Along with others, initiate discharge planning process.

• Document in medical chart activities, events, procedures undertaken or completed in collaboration with others and response during the admission.

• Update the referring physician in conjunction with the attending physician regarding patient status.