Trauma Services Advanced Practice Provider

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) you will be a pivotal healthcare professional delivering compassionate high-quality care that truly impacts our patients well-being and recovery.

Every day you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized comprehensive care making critical assessments performing skilled procedures and meticulously implementing patient care plans. Youll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role you will possess keen assessment skills acute critical thinking and a patient-first mindset driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Performs routine physical/psychosocial assessment to collect basic data: follows the written plan of care standards practice guidelines utilizes pathways which includes notifying physicians as appropriate
• Formulates a plan of care for individual needs including patient population needs. Participates in the planning of routine transitional health care needs (i.e. treatment options patient placement options)
• Adapts planned educational programs and information to individual patients and family by modifying teaching strategies or content. Integrates education during the delivery of patient care
• Ensures efficiency in the delivery of care to determine immediate priorities and to offer solutions for problems
• Makes independent clinical decisions based on knowledge drawn from education and experience
• Actively advocates for patient rights and identifies potential conflict. Seeks counsel for resolution of conflict

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Job Requirements

Required:

• Graduate as a Nurse Practitioner from an accredited school of nursing (MSN)
  OR
• Graduate as a PA from an instititution accredited by the Commission on Education of Physician Assistants (with a Bachelors Degree)
• NP or PA with Critical Care and/or Emergency Care experience required
• One year of experience in an acute hospital setting required
• Advanced Trauma Life Support training required
• Current ACLS and BLS certifications required (must be certified through the American Heart Association)

Preferred:

• English-Spanish bilingual fluency preferred
• Prefer an NP with ACNP or Trauma Trained PA-C
• Prefer PAs with a Masters Degree

Where Youll Work

Mercy Medical Center Redding offers comprehensive health care to nearly 300000 residents in a six-county region. It is one of only two Level II trauma centers the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the only Joint Commission-certified Advanced Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center north of Sacramento north of Sacramento. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a 266-bed regional medical center providing inpatient and outpatient services as well as specialized cardiovascular care stroke care orthopedics neurological surgery comprehensive cancer care maternity care and a robust robotic surgery addition the hospitals network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living.