APRN/PA - Hospital Medicine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Summary
This position will hire for either APRN or PA. As an integral part of the UAMS Hospitalist Care Team, the APRN works collaboratively with the attending physicians and residents to ensure continuity of care to inpatient patients. The APRN helps plan, implement, and evaluate health care treatments. Daily rounds, a variety of procedures, monitoring patient progress, and providing patient and family education are part of the wide scope of practice.
Job description
Summary of Job Duties
This position will hire for either APRN or PA. As an integral part of the UAMS Hospitalist Care Team, the APRN works collaboratively with the attending physicians and residents to ensure continuity of care to inpatient patients. The APRN helps plan, implement, and evaluate health care treatments. Daily rounds, a variety of procedures, monitoring patient progress, and providing patient and family education are part of the wide scope of practice.
Responsibilities
- Maintains required audits for credentialing.
- Engages in appropriate continuing education programs, maintains mandatory competencies, medical center computer-based learning modules, and health monitoring services.
- Participates in institutional initiatives and encourages the participation of others.
- Collaborates in policy and program development, implementation, and evaluation using best practices in delivering quality service.
- Coordinates the multidisciplinary care of patients, facilitating all necessary consults, assuring that care is timely and appropriate.
- Actively engages in service line meetings and takes an approach to health care that shapes policies, programs, facility design, and day-to-day interactions.
- Provides healthcare services to patients, including comprehensive care during acute and chronic episodes of injury and illness, follow-up care during post-hospital clinic appointments, education and counseling of families, health promotion and prevention, and referral to other healthcare providers and community resources when appropriate.
- Works autonomously as well as in collaboration with a variety of disciplines to diagnose and manage health care problems; serves as a health care resource, interdisciplinary consultant, and patient advocate.
- Communicates and shares complete and unbiased information, assuring colleagues receive timely, complete, and accurate information to make informed decisions.
- May perform other duties as assigned.
Additional Information
Employees in this role must be fitted for, capable of donning and performing routine tasks in personal protective equipment to include N95 masks, Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPR) or Controlled Air Purifying Respirators (CAPR).
Requirements
- APRN: Master's Degree in Nursing - Acute Care
- APRN: Three (3) years of nursing experience
- APRN: Licensed Registered Nurse in Arkansas
- APRN: APRN License
- APRN: 1 year of APRN experience in Acute Care
- APRN: National certification in Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Adult Gero Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, and Family Nurse Practitioner
- PA: Master's Degree - Physician Assistant
- PA: 1 year of PA experience in Acute Care
- PA: PA License
- Must be fitted for and capable of donning PPE including N95 masks, PAPR, or CAPR
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Holiday, Vacation & Sick Leave
- Education Discount
- 401(k) Matching up to 10%
- Basic Life Insurance
- Career Training
- Merchant Discounts
- Concierge Prescription Delivery
Company overview
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) is Arkansas' only comprehensive academic health sciences university and the state's largest public employer. Founded in 1879 by eight physicians, UAMS has evolved into a statewide health system encompassing six colleges: Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Health Professions, Public Health, and Graduate School. As a premier academic medical center, UAMS combines education, research, and clinical care through its UAMS Medical Center, which serves as Arkansas' only adult Level 1 trauma center and the state's sole provider of adult kidney, liver, and pancreas transplants. The institution operates with a $1.3 billion budget and generates over $100 million in annual research funding, maintaining internationally recognized programs in multiple myeloma, aging, and other specialized areas. UAMS supports over 3,000 students, 900 medical residents and fellows, and maintains affiliations with Arkansas Children's Hospital and the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. With eight regional campuses across Arkansas, UAMS provides extensive community outreach and telehealth services, ensuring healthcare access throughout the state while contributing approximately $3.92 billion annually to Arkansas' economy.