Nurse Practitioner Physician Assistant - Hospital MedicineHospital at Home
Nurse Practitioner Physician Assistant - Hospital MedicineHospital at Home
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Not Disclosed
Salary Not Disclosed
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Are you a current UMass Memorial Health caregiver CLICK HERE to apply through your Workday account.
Everyone Is a Caregiver
At UMass Memorial Health everyone is a caregiver regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care academic excellence and leadingedge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 16000 employees working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients community and each other. And everyone in their own unique way plays an important part every day.
I. Position Summary:
The overnight APP is a core member of the UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) Hospital at Home (HAH) and Hospital Medicine (HM) clinical teams and plays a central role in admitting patients from the UMMMC University and Memorial campus emergency departments and med/surge floors to the UMMMC HAH and HM programs during the late evening admitting hours and crosscovering patients on the UMMMC HAH and HM teams overnight. The overnight APP supervises UMMMC HAH admitting processes supports HAH nursing/paramedic teams performs tuckin video visits for patients newly admitted into the HAH program and provides crosscover services overnight for the HAH and HM program. To this end the overnight HAH/HM APP will work closely as a highly collaborative liaison between the HAH patient acquisition team HAH care team and HM care team to identify appropriate HAH candidates and admit them safely into the program.
II. Major Clinical Responsibilities:
1. After initial onboarding program with indepth exposure to HAH and HM care teams and processes the overnight HAH/HM APP will work 12 hour shifts overnight located on campus at UMMMC
2. The overnight HAH/HM APP supports all HAH patient acquisition efforts and HAH admitting processes during evening admitting hours and provides crosscover overnight for UMMMC HAH and HM services.
- a. Shift starts at 7:30 pm with handoff from HAH/HM daytime provider teams.
- b. Shift ends at 7:30 am with handoff back to HAH/HM daytime provider teams.
- c. Fulltime is defined as 156 shifts per year (avg three shifts per week)
- d. For the HAH program
- i. Completes inperson H&Ps per night for UMMMC HAH patients being admitted to the HAH program supervised by the HM TCT physician
- ii. Completes virtual admission tuckin visits per night for UMMMC HAH patients transferred from UNV/MEM campuses to the home in the evening with tuckin video visits prioritizing ongoing acute medical management medication reconciliation social determinant identification and safety planning supervised by the HAH physician
- iii. Provides virtual crosscover overnight for HAH patients
- iv. Assist with screening already admitted patients in brick/mortar hospital for transfer to HAH that evening or following day
- e. For the HM program
- i. Provides inperson crosscover for HM patients at UMMMC campus
3. Serves as key contributor in identify opportunities to improve HAH/HM admitting processes and ongoing care.
4. Flexible creative and open to adjustments/changes in role in mutually beneficial way for patients APP HAH and HM care teams to optimize care delivery with service maturation
5. Highly collaborative caregiver closely partnering with physician and nursing team with excellent verbal and written communication skills
6. Joins regularly scheduled HAH and HM team meetings and every other week HAH provider team meetings.
All responsibilities are essential job functions.
III. Position Qualifications:
License/Certification/Education:
Required:
1. NP or PA Degree.
2. NP or PA licensure in the State of Massachusetts.
3. BLS and ACLS certification
Experience/Skill:
Required:
1. Minimum of two years of clinical experience as provider in acute inpatient floor or emergency department settings with acutely ill inpatients
2. Ability to proactively and creatively manage a panel of inpatientlevel acutely ill patients using combination of remote monitoring tools and inhome rapid response capabilities facilitated by UMMMC HAH nurses and MIH paramedics and supported by UMMMC HAH hospitalist and leadership team
3. Ability to proactively reach out and secure specialist expertise as appropriate
4. Comfort with ECG and mobile xray interpretation
5. Comfort with bringing clarity to ambiguity in the home environment
6. Comfort with telehealth or growth mindset to learn telehealth
7. Comfort with caring for a vulnerable patient population and holistically balancing risks of brick/mortar hospitalization and risks of home hospitalization to provide secondtononquality care in the home.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status.
Were striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health for our patients our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge Listen Communicate Be Responsive Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone every day.
As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation national origin age disability gender identity and expression protected veteran status or other status protected by law.
If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability please contact us at We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.
Employment Type
Full-Time
