Telehealth Advanced Practice Provider - Temporary

Bargaining Unit: EAP

Rate of Pay: $84.91/hour + DOE (Base pay of $80.87 includes 5% temporary rate)
Summary
The Clinics Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant is responsible for the primary care of those individuals directed to the clinics via hospital based programs.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Demonstrates clinical competence to provide adult or family primary care through telehealth modalities, with or without sub-specialty expertise, within the APP's scope of practice, clinical privileges, and applicable laws and regulations.

- Provides primary care medical services for assigned patients through telehealth, including preventive care, evaluation and treatment of acute illnesses and injuries when clinically appropriate for virtual management, chronic disease management, health maintenance, and referrals to appropriate in-person services, specialties, or facilities.

- Conducts comprehensive and focused patient assessments through video and other approved telehealth modalities, including obtaining an appropriate medical history and performing an appropriate virtual examination.

- Recognizes the clinical limitations of telehealth and appropriately determines when an in-person physical examination, diagnostic testing, laboratory services, imaging, urgent care, emergency care, or other in-person evaluation is necessary to safely assess and manage the patient.

- Verifies patient identity and location and follows applicable telehealth consent, privacy, security, documentation, and regulatory requirements.

- Orders, performs, and interprets diagnostic tests as appropriate, recognizing when testing or diagnostic evaluation requires coordination with an in-person healthcare location.

- Prescribes medications, therapy, and other specialized medical care consistent with the standard of care, scope of practice, clinical privileges, organizational policies, and applicable laws and regulations.

- Performs appropriate medical procedures within scope of practice as defined by licensing requirements and the health system's credentialing and privileging processes and appropriately identifies procedures or interventions that cannot be safely performed through telehealth.

- Considers a thorough range of treatment and preventive options and arrives at a recommended course of action that is age appropriate, culturally appropriate, realistic, attainable, and appropriate to the patient's ability to access necessary in-person services.

- Appropriately manages patient care and health status following initiation of a treatment or preventive plan through virtual follow-up, monitoring, and reassessment, and adjusts the plan of care as warranted.

- Communicates effectively with patients and families in a virtual environment so that they understand their diagnosis, treatment plan, medications, follow-up requirements, and circumstances that require escalation to in-person or emergency care.

- Educates and encourages patients to become active participants in their healthcare and provides appropriate patient education materials, digital resources, and self-management tools.

- Documents telehealth encounters accurately and in a timely manner within the electronic medical record to facilitate continuity, coordination, and quality of care. Demonstrates the ability to distinguish between normal and abnormal findings based on available patient history, virtual examination, diagnostic information, and other clinical data, and recognizes when the limitations of virtual assessment require additional in-person evaluation.

- Makes appropriate referrals to physicians, specialists, community agencies, and in-person healthcare services based on the patient's clinical needs.

- Collaborates with and consults supervising physician(s) and other members of the healthcare team when appropriate and required by policy. Completes chart review as required by health system policies and escalates care appropriately when a patient's condition exceeds th