Advanced Practice Provider - Nurse Practitioner or Physician’s Assistant Senior Instructor

Advanced Practice Provider - Nurse Practitioner or Physician’s Assistant Senior Instructor-30744Faculty

Description

University of Colorado CU Anschutz Medical Campus

School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine

Job Title : Advanced Practice Provider - Nurse Practitioneror Physician’s Assistant Department of Family Medicine Boulder and Westminster Clinics - Sr. Instructor

Position # 00813123 - Requisition #30744

Job Summary :

In the context of a clinical care team and Patient Centered Medical Home practices, provide float coverage at all UCHealth / Department of Family Medicine clinic locations to include the Boulder and Westminster clinics.

This position will provide full-spectrum ambulatory care including, but not limited to, chronic disease management, acute and urgent care, and wellness and preventative care for adult and pediatric patients both in person and via virtual visits.

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) evaluates, assesses, diagnoses, prescribes and educates patients regarding their particular illness or chronic disease.

The position provides high quality primary care to all patients, evaluate and treat acute and chronic problems for the patient population, complete histories, thorough assessments and physical examinations on all patients with accurate and complete documentation reflected in medical records and collaborates and communicates with other departments and colleagues, such as the pharmacy to ensure optimal patient care.

TOTAL FTE COMMITMENT : 1.00 cFTE (

Examples of Work Performed

The duties and responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to :

Sr. Instructor :

I. Clinical Administration (.20 -.30 Flex FTE) : In addition to clinical administrative time of 8 hours per week described above per 1.

0 cFTE, provide Epic in-basket management support remotely for clinicians as directed by the Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs.

II. Clinical / Direct Patient Care (.70 - .80 FTE max flex time) : Acute care / same day access and patient education; clinic flex time as needed by the clinic for schedule leveling;

no patient panel or call pool participation.

III. Clinical Administration : Provide off-site Epic in-basket management support to patients’ the provider has seen and is following up on as well as patients seen by other clinic’s providers when they are away on vacation or FMLA.

1.Meet with Associate Vice Chair monthly to discuss needs and schedule.

2.Log in to Epic based on clinic needs and as directed by the Clinic Medical Directors to see if any Critical Labs or on-call issues arose overnight.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES

• New tasks appear continuously throughout the day, plan to check in-box continually during clinic hours and over the lunch hour.
• Refill medications, review chart in detail, check PDMP for controlled substances. Task to front desk if patient needs to schedule an appointment.
• Review any "flagged" labs and notify patient of results.
• Answer MHC messages either with a message that their PCP is away and will answer when back or take care of the message completely;

protocols to be developed.

• Place referrals if appropriate.
• Attempt to close the loop in as many tasks as possible.
• Clinical / Direct Patient Care In person, acute care / same day access appointments and patient education based on clinic location staffing needs;

clinic flex time as requested by the clinic for schedule leveling; no patient empanelment.

• Provide quality, accessible, cost-effective primary care for patients served by University of Colorado Hospitals and other DFM sites as designated.
• Provide direct patient care for acute care patients who require / request same-day appointments.
• Collaborate as appropriate with medical staff in the care of complex patients.
• Interact with other health professionals to create guidelines and coordinate patient care.
• Collaborate with other team members in chronic disease management and patient care management.
• Will not participate in afterhours call pool.
• Provide quality care for other populations as assigned.
• Support and collaborate with medical, nursing and office staff.

Other Duties As part of being a faculty member in an academic environment, participate in educational and research activities as opportunities present themselves and / or other duties as assigned by clinical leadership.

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