Advance Practice Provider Orlando Health Physician Associate- Winter Park Family Medicine

Orlando Health Physician Associates

Position Summary

Location: Winter Park Department: OHPA Family Medicine Status: Full Time Shift: Days Title: Nurse Practitioner (NP), ARNP, APRN, Physician Assistant (PA), PAC, APP, Advanced Practice Provider

Orlando Health Physician Associates is one of the largest primary care provider (PCP) groups in Central Florida with more than 225 providers delivering care in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and podiatry. Our PCPs provide care for every age through every stage from childhood development to pregnancy and childbirth services to chronic disease management and aging concerns. As part of Orlando Health, our providers also can refer and coordinate care throughout the systems integrated network of healthcare services. With convenient locations across Central Florida, we provide patients easy access to quality primary care, including same-day, next-day, and virtual appointments.

Orlando Health Physician Associates is part of the Orlando Health system of care, which includes award-winning hospitals and ERs, specialty institutes, urgent care centers, primary care practices, and outpatient facilities that span Floridas east to west coasts and beyond. Collectively, our 27,000 team members honor our over 100-year legacy by providing professional and compassionate care to the patients, families, and communities we serve. Orlando Health is committed to providing you with benefits that go beyond the expected, with career-growing, free education programs, and well-being services to support you and your family through every stage of life. We begin your benefits on day one and offer flexibility wherever possible, so that you can be present for your passions.

Position Summary

The advanced practice provider provides inpatient, outpatient management, consultations, and co-management of patients in the acute care and practice setting.

Essential Functions

• Assesses the physical and psychosocial status of patients by means of interview, health history, physical examination, diagnostic studies, and recognizes deviations from the normal.
• Then develops a diagnosis and works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team to formulate and implements the treatment plan.
• Surgically close wounds, incision, and drainage, debridement, dressing, and the surgeon must remain in the immediate area.
• Scrub with collaborating surgeon in operating room.
• Performs complex diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as credentialed.
• Diagnosing medical and surgical problems and prescribing necessary treatment and services for quality patient care.
• Implements appropriate management based on laboratory results, physical assessment, routine diagnostic, and follow-up studies, therapeutic measures, admission, and discharge care in accordance with evidence-based medicine.
• Identifies, analyzes, and resolves patient care issues to foster significant improvement in patient care and outcomes.
• Dictates and documents in an accurate and timely manner.
• Performs patient education and maintains provision of preventive health services.
• Conducts or participates in multidisciplinary rounds.
• Participates in the department on call rotation and/or weekend/holiday rounding as required.
• Prescribe medication.
• Participates in quality initiatives to ensure consistent attainment of key quality indicators.
• Supports IRB-approved clinical research trials through a variety of activities, including but not limited to ordering diagnostic tests, prescreening patients, recording laboratory and diagnostic results, administering therapeutic interventions per trial protocols, and documenting outcomes per hospital and trial protocols.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.

Other Related Functions

• Acts as a role model and resource person for staff.
• Assists in teaching students, residents, and interns in complex techniques and procedures.
• Participates in review and revision of policies and procedures.
• Establishes relationships with professional and other health-related groups within the community.
• Demonstrates effective verbal and written communication with diverse populations, including physicians, employees, patients, and families.

Qualifications

• Education/Training:
• Nurse Practitioner (MN) or MSN or DNP or PhD or DNS degree in nursing.
• Physician Assistant (PA) graduate of an accredited physician assistant program.
• Licensure/Certification:
• Nurse Practitioner (APRN) license in the state of Florida.
• After July 1, 2006, licensure applicants are required to have national advanced certification from an approved nursing specialty board.
• Maintains current BLS certification.
• Physician Assistant (PA) maintains current physician assistant licensure in the State of Florida.
• Maintains current BLS/healthcare certification.

Experience

• None