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Advanced Practice Provider-Hospitalist

Position Title: Hospitalist Advanced Practice Provider (APP)

Location: Bear River Hospital- Tremonton, UT.

Department: Internal Medicine

Position Type: Part-time

Work Schedule:

• 7-19:00: 12-hour shifts, including shared weekends and holidays?

• 2 shifts per pay period, 53 shifts annually

• Opportunity for additional hours to cover PTO requests
  

Job Description Summary

We are seeking an experienced inpatient APP to join our Hospitalist team at Intermountain Bear River Valley Hospital in Tremonton. Bear River Hospital is a 16-bed facility that offers a broad range of wellness, diagnostic, and treatment services, features a Level IV Trauma Center, and is supported by Intermountains virtual hospital and Life Flight air medical transport.

The Hospitalist Advanced Practice Provider (APP) plays a critical role in the management of adult and pediatric hospitalized patients, with a primary focus on those on general medicine floors. In this role you will work with a multidisciplinary team of doctors, case managers, nurses, dietitians, and pharmacists to provide optimal patient care and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) are accountable for the provision of patient care at the top of licensure, within their scope of practice. Licensed, credentialed and privileged to perform such duties as:

• Conduct comprehensive assessments, including history and physical examinations.

• Develop, implement, and evaluate treatment plans in collaboration with attending physicians.

• Manage acute and chronic medical conditions, including initiating appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.

• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, including physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists, to ensure coordinated patient care.

• Facilitate communication between patients, families, and healthcare teams, ensuring that patients and their families are informed and involved in care decisions and care transitions.

• Maintain accurate and timely documentation of patient encounters, treatment plans, and progress notes in the electronic health record (EHR) system.

• Ensure compliance with hospital policies, regulatory requirements, and best practice standards.

• Participate in ongoing professional development and continuing education to stay current with advancements in critical care and internal medicine.

• Engage in quality improvement initiatives within the hospitalist program and hospital.

• Participate in hospital committees, task forces, and meetings as required.
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About us:

Intermountain Health is a model health system by providing extraordinary care and superior service at an affordable cost. We are an integrated not-for-profit system of 33 hospitals, 385 clinics, and a medical group with more than 5,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers across seven states in the mountain west.

Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us. Learn more about our Mission, Vision, and Values.

What does it mean to be a part of Intermountain Health?

It means joining the Power of We, building an environment where providers and caregivers can deliver the best in healthcare. Realizing each caregiver and volunteer is vital to providing care to our patients, because WE can only achieve the extraordinary together. Committed to the best in research and most advanced technology, the results are better clinical patient outcomes

Qualifications

• Licensure/Certification:

• Current licensure as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) in Utah

• Board certification as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP), Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Physician Assistant (PA-C)

• DEA Certificate II through V - DOJ Drug Enforcement Division

• ACLS and BLS certification for healthcare providers

• PALS Certification for healthcare providers

• Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years of inpatient APP experience; hospitalist or critical care setting preferred.

• Pediatrics and Adults.

• Skills and Abilities:

• Strong clinical decision-making and critical thinking skills.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, high-acuity environment.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

• Commitment to patient-centered care and continuous improvement.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to work in a hospital environment, which may involve exposure to infectious diseases and high-stress situations.

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.

• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.

• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.

• May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.