GENERAL SUMMARY:

• Great opportunity for a team player has good communication skills and can work independently.
• Provides inpatient hospitalist care for the observation unit
• Takes patient history, performs physical examination, orders, and interprets tests, makes diagnoses, and institutes appropriate treatment programs.
• Works in collaboration with staff physicians, house officers, nurses, and other medical care team members to ensure that patient outcomes are achieved safely and efficiently.
• Specific procedures are individually credentialed as indicated by training and experience.

• Current certification as a Certified Nurse Practitioner -OR- Must be a Masters prepared Physician Assistant who has graduated from an AMA approved Physician Assistant program.
• Current ACLS/BLS as required. Current ATLS/PALS provider status as required.