Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Community Medicine Inboxologist

Advanced Practice Provider must be a current employee with Community Medicine. Aligning with scope of practice, this Advanced Practice Provider will proactively manage patient advice, management and medication needs. The Inboxologist will be responsible for completing follow up and adjusting care plans as needed. In-basket management will require thorough, complete and timely responses to in-basket messages, complete actions, and outreaches to patients as necessary. These roles, undertaken in cooperation with nursing, staff physicians and other department staff, may include triage, telephone communication and patient education. Position will be a split role to support in-office primary care (60%) and virtual in-basket management (40%).

Job Description

• Assesses and establishes a presumptive diagnosis and implements treatment plans for their patient population.
• Makes accurate and complete entries into the electronic medical record; orders and interprets diagnostic testing and consults as appropriate and prescribes appropriate medical therapy utilizing evidenced based practice.
• Prescribes, adjusts or discontinues medications or therapies as appropriate.
• Evaluates and reports to collaborating physician any circumstances or approaches to medical management or test results that present a significant risk to patient's health or well-being.
• Performs procedures within the scope of practice of the nurse practitioner license.
• Communicates with collaborative physician, patient, PCP and referring staff through telephone or other means of correspondence.
• Instills confidence in patient acting as their advocate by providing safe, ethical care and health education to the patient and their family in a language that they can understand.
• Interprets and follow policies and guidelines to define procedures and meet goals and deadlines.
• Utilizes clinical knowledge to respond to in-basket messages including, but not limited to, interpretation of results, virtual triage and diagnostic assessments, virtual treatment and follow-up care, and medication management.
• Deploys strategies for effective management of in-baskets for supported providers by following best practice in-basket recommendations and demonstrating effective usage of cross-disciplinary resources.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

Requirements:

At least 3 years, experience with managing patient panels within Community Medicine.

The successful Physician Assistant candidate will work under the responsibility and supervision of the physician and require completion of an ARC-PA (or predecessor organization) approved physician assistant program, current NCCPA certification or eligibility and Pennsylvania State licensure.  

The successful Nurse Practitioner candidate will work in collaboration with the physician and have a certificate of completion from an approved program for Nurse Practitioners or be eligible to hold national certification that allows the NP to work with the patient populations and location settings associated with this position. Must be eligible for licensure as a nurse practitioner in the state of PA.