Advanced Practice Provider for Trauma, Surg Critical Care & ED - Riverside Health, Newport News, Virginia

As a provider with Riverside Medical Group, you would join a team of providers who are respected leaders and part of our collaborative care delivery team.  Our providers care for our patients as if they are those they love.  Our core values are built into our provider compact that outlines our dedication to our patients as our first priority.  Our providers encourage patient involvement, embrace change, and take ownership in the success of the team and the organization.  If that resonates with you, we would like to speak to you.

Riverside Medical Group is currently seeking a full time Advanced Practice Provider for Trauma, Surg Critical Care & ED to join our team in Newport News, Virginia.

Qualifications

• Virginia Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner license required
• AHA BLS Provider CPR required at hire
• New graduates will be considered only if they possess Emergency Medicine, ICU or surgical tech experience
• Current approval for prescriptive authority in Virginia
• Currently holds a valid DEA certificate
• Must be ACNP (Acute Care Nurse Practitioner) certified

Responsibilities

• The APP will work with the group of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Emergency Physicians in providing pre-, intra- and post-operative care for the patients admitted to the Trauma, Emergency General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care services at Riverside Regional Medical Center
• The APP works closely with and assists the physician in providing quality, efficient, continuous, and cost-effective care throughout the patient’s hospitalization
• Obtains, records, and dictates medical histories and physical examinations
• Performs pre-operative and post-operative evaluations on patients
• Makes daily rounds, records progress notes, writes routine orders (comfort and diet, laboratory tests, non-invasive examinations, etc.)
• Admits patients to the hospital
• Orders and interprets diagnostic tests per written protocol
• Participates in trauma resuscitations
• Evaluates patients in the Emergency Department and Surgical ICU
• Performs repair of simple lacerations, I&D simple wounds, and skin biopsies
• Performs procedures such as, general wound care, obtains cultures, and suture/staple removal
• Performs critical care procedures (arterial lines, central lines, and chest tubes) per protocol under direct supervision and direction of the physician
• May perform other procedures such as catheterize urinary bladder, place nasogastric tubes, insert IV catheters
• Dictates discharge and transfer summaries
• Educates patients and family regarding disease, procedures, medications, nutrition, health care and post-discharge care
• Acts as liaison between patients, nurses, and surgeons
• Requests consults from appropriate physicians
• Evaluates patients who require a surgical consult
• Closes wounds and applies dressings
• Performs other duties as assigned

Full-time - 12 hours shifts 

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More about Riverside, a great place to work
We are one of the area's larger employers, with about 10,000 team members. More than 2,300 have worked here 10 years or more! Riverside has been certified by the Great Place to Work organization since 2017.