Physician Assistant - Inpatient Surgical Services

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, andtreatment facilitiesin Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) at City of Hope Orange County Cancer Specialty Hospital, As the Advanced Practice Provider you will carry out the functions that will assist the surgeon in performing a safe operation with optimal results for the patient. The Advanced Practice Provider practices peri-operative nursing and is therefore responsible for independent behaviors of peri-operative assessment and post-operative evaluation of care. The Advanced Practice Provider will work with multiple specialties and surgeons in a wide range of cases including, plastics, urology, general surgery, breast surgery, and GYN/ONC. This is a 4 10-hour shifts, rotating Monday - Friday, with a potential for a call schedule for nights and weekends.

As a valued member of the City of Hope nursing team, you play an instrumental role in enhancing the quality of life for cancer patients. Your expertise, empathy, and dedication contribute to creating a supportive and healing environment for individuals undergoing cancer treatment. To learn more about more City of Hope Lennar Foundation Cancer Center CLICK HERE.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Assess the health status of the patient in order to develop an individualized plan of care by collecting, categorizing, and interpreting data (physical and psychosocial) from documented information, observation, patient/family interview and other health care team members.
• Assess the patient including nursing diagnosis, patient goals and nursing interventions necessary to achieve goals of care.
• Will function as a RNFA in the OR to multiple specialties and work with multiple surgeons.
• Implement nursing care to provide optimal individualized patient outcome.
• Rounding on inpatient floors and in the PACU on occasion.
• Instruct the patient and family to assist the patient in the achievement of optimal health status.
• Document nursing activities to provide a permanent record, for continuity of care, quality improvement and professional accountability.
• Identify the patient to ensure the patient, procedure and operative site correspond.
• Plan, supervise and assist with the transfer of the patient to protect the patient and personnel from injury.
• Position the patient to provide access to the operative site while maximizing patient safety and comfort.
• Establish and maintain a surgically clean environment to reduce the potential for infection by applying the principles of the potential for infection by applying the principles of antisepsis, decontamination, disinfection, sanitation, sterilization, and environmental monitoring.
• Establish and maintain a safe environment to protect the patient and the health care team by monitoring the patient (physiologically and psychologically) and the environment and by implementing safety procedures.
• Establish and maintain a sterile field to reduce potential for infection by teaching and supervising the application of principles of aseptic technique and continual monitoring of the sterile filed.
• Coordinate support services need during surgery by anticipating and communicating patient and surgical team needs.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications

Your qualifications should include:

• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program.
• Master's degree
• Three years as a Physician Assistant is preferred.
• Unrestricted, Current Physician Assistant license
• Certified California Physician Assistant license
• Current DEA license required.
• Current BLS certification from American Heart Association
• Current ACLS certification from American Heart Association

City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.