The appointee shall provide services as assigned by the supervisor in furtherance of the universitys missions and goals of teaching, research, patient care, outreach and public service.

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) serving as the Outpatient Care Unit provider is a faculty member credentialed and privileged to serve as a licensed independent practitioner, and is a member of the OHSU Professional Staff practicing in accordance with the respective bylaws.

The part time Outpatient Care Unit at CHH2 APP has the responsibility to be scheduled and/or allocated to the Outpatient Care Unit for the medical and post- operative management of their overnight stay surgical day patients. The APP delivers care to Day Surgery patients requiring overnight stay up to 2 night stays. When not working in the OCU at CHH2, the APP has the responsibility to be scheduled and/or allocated to Vascular Surgery for medical management of their acute care patients.

Additionally, the Outpatient Care Unit /Vascular surgery APP is responsible to partner with the patient and family and nurse case manager to impact timely and effective discharges and patient flow; impact patient and family experience through communication and education; mentor residents, clinical nurses and others; promote an interdisciplinary approach to care; and support new processes to improve patient outcomes.

In addition to key job responsibilities, qualifications and other job requirements listed below, the APP is expected to comply with scope of practice, other laws, regulations, OHSU policy, and other applicable professional standards of practice.

Clinical Activities (not related to teaching or research): Assure the safe, efficient, high quality and customer oriented management of patient care to identified patient populations, including but not limited to completing a comprehensive assessment of the patients status; developing, monitoring and revising, as appropriate, an evidence-based treatment plan that addresses diagnoses, patterns of disease, risk factors, and treatment alternatives; treat many common acute and chronic health problems; interpret diagnostic tests prescribe and manage medications and other therapies, provide health teaching with an emphasis on prevention of illness and health maintenance; and, refer patients to other healthcare professionals as necessary

Scholarship (improvement science, research, writing, abstracts, grant supported work, presentations, etc.): Keep abreast of changes in field and applies knowledge to identify and recommend enhancements to clinical quality, patient experience/satisfaction, length of stay and to achieve improvement that demonstrates a higher standard of care. Assesses and recommends initiatives to improve performance indicators related to patient experience, quality, and costs. Professional development meeting the expectations of ongoing certification. Demonstrates success or productivity in the field as evidenced by securing research funding, publication in journals and/or other forms of peer presentations

Teaching/ Clinical Supervision: Support OHSUs academic missions by participating in the design, development and assessment of program curricula for professional (advanced practice nursing, medicine, and physician assistant) specialty areas; including course objectives, instructional methods, learning outcomes, projects and assessment measures. Teach program courses as needed according to specified learning outcomes; academic advising and career related counseling for students; monitoring student retention and identifying and assisting at-risk students.

Deliver individual instruction to support fellows, residents, graduate APP students, and other clinical learners to support their personal program of learning in the applicable specialty area. Provide instruction and review of the practices, policies and procedures in a variety of functions; including but not limited to development of treatment plans, interpretation of clinical diagnostic data; developing orders; patient and family communication and education; management of medical equipment, electronic medical records; performing procedures, and transitioning patients to the next level of care. Assures adherence to the specialty specific protocols, best practices, quality, and organizational indicators. Provides input to the performance of the resident or graduate APP student as a provider or graduate APP student provider in the practice setting

Education: Masters Degree as required by specific Advanced Practice Provider role.

Job related Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Demonstrated ability to satisfy standards of performance delineated by law and associated professional practice standards, the latter set forth as an addendum to the position description.

• Ability to manage heavy workload with multiple priorities and inflexible deadlines.


• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.


• Proficient in the use of computing hardware and software, including personal computing equipment, electronic medical record, word processing and spreadsheet software.


• Regular and consistent attendance at work

Registration, Certification and/or Licenses: Required certification in specialty area. Adult Gerontology Acute Care NP, Acute Care NP or Physician Assistant.

Compliance: Code of Conduct, respect in the workplace, Applicable law, policies, procedures, positions certifying agencies and agreements related to position, department, or OHSU as a whole

Education:

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner


• Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Experience:

• Lean performance improvement knowledge and experience.


• Academic medical center experience.

Job related knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Experience in the Microsoft Office Suite of products.


• Experience using Epic EMR


• Other as required for position

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