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Join Our Team and Grow Your Career

Do you want to advance your career? UBMD Pediatrics is seeking our next valued employee. If you are ready to take the next step in your career, UBMD Pediatrics is the place for you. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a strong commitment to work-life balance. This is a chance you don't want to miss!!! UBMD Pediatrics is committed to providing excellent care for children and building strong relationships with families. We're looking for an enthusiastic Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) to join our team and make a difference in the lives of our patients.

About UBMD Pediatrics

UBMD Pediatrics is one of 18 practice plans within UBMD Physicians’ Group, the single largest medical group in Western New York. We provide premier health care to infants, children, adolescents and adults. In addition to primary care pediatrics, we have 18 pediatric subspecialties. Our physicians make up the academic teaching faculty within the Department of Pediatrics at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Buffalo and at Oishei Children’s Hospital. For more information regarding UBMD Pediatrics, please visit www.UBMDPediatrics.com.

Why You'll Love Working Here

• Be part of a team: We are dedicated to providing exceptional care and fostering a supportive, collaborative work environment.
• Make a difference: You'll play a vital role in shaping patient experiences and supporting their health journey.
• Work-life balance: Enjoy a generous PTO plan
• Competitive benefits: Includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with employer contribution, paid time off, and more (details below).
• Supportive Environment: Collaborative work environment with opportunities for professional growth.

Key Responsibilities

Responsible for providing care services to patients with Endocrine disorders, obesity, and diabetes, including assessing, diagnosing, prescribing, treating, and educating patients. Works closely with physicians and other clinicians in a team approach to patient care. 

Provide on-site direct professional services to patients of the UBMD Pediatrics Endocrine/Diabetes Clinics with a minimum of 6 half-day sessions per week.

• Obtain and utilize Certified Diabetes Educator certification.
• Assess patient status by obtaining health history through patient/family interviews and chart reviews; assessing presenting illness, risk factors, family history, and cultural factors; and performing appropriate physical examination of which UBMD Pediatrics will bill the professional component.
• Complete Electronic Medical Record (“EMR”) of each patient encounter within 72 hours of clinic visit. Complete billing encounter information in the EMR for each patient by the time of discharge from clinic.
• Order/perform appropriate laboratory, diagnostic, and other screening tests. Seeks other information as needed, including consultation with physicians and other clinicians, for evaluation of illness. Integrates data to determine diagnosis and therapeutic plan, including identification of any health risks.
• Triage patient calls and provides consultation. Provide follow up on all patient labs and clinic visits.
• Develop and implement treatment plan by prescribing/dispensing medications and/or injections in compliance with medical practice guidelines and state laws. Instructs patient/family regarding medications and treatments.
• Prepare documentation for medical records including updating patient medical chart by posting examination and test results, diagnosis, medications, and treatment in written/computerized manner.
• Participate in peer reviews, chart reviews, staff education, clinical guideline development, and other continuing education and quality assurance activities to demonstrate compliance with standards, regulations, policies, and procedures. Act as consultant/collaborator to clinical team on area of specialty. Comply with patient confidentiality requirements. Promote patient advocacy.
• Collaborate with physicians in managing acute and long-term medical needs of patient. Provide monitoring and continuity of care between visits according to treatment plan including triaging patient calls and provides consultation.
• Maintain and review patient records, charts, and other pertinent information. Reviews and communicates test and examination results to physicians and patient families.
• Perform inpatient consultations in collaboration with the on-service attending. Document in the medical records to facilitate billing and documentation for Kaleida.
• Coordinate home care services, labs, care, and prescriptions for patients.
  Perform related work as required.

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Willing to provide off-site professional services to patients of the UBMD Pediatrics clinics and/or contracted services as needed by the Division of Endocrinology.
• Act as a sub-investigator for clinical research studies with delegation of duties to include recruitment, appropriate physical examinations, adverse event assessments, development of therapeutic plans, and interpretation of labs under the supervision of the principal investigator.

Requirements

• Knowledge of advanced practice of nursing including anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology and therapeutics, basic nutrition, behavioral factors, psychosocial/family systems, diagnostic testing, interpretation of results and clinical decision making, alternative treatment modalities.
• Knowledge of professional nursing theory, practices and regulations related to evaluating and providing patient care, and professional ethics related to the delivery of nursing care.
• Knowledge of medical equipment and instruments used to administer patient care.
• Knowledge of common safety hazards and precautions to establish/maintain a safe work environment.
• Knowledge of health promotion, health risk identification, and patient education principles and techniques.
• Knowledge of community, professional, and educational resources.
• Skill in oral and written communication including interviewing to gather medical histories; providing presentations, consultations, facilitation, and documentation, e.g., writing medical orders, patient education materials, and medical record updates. May require skill in using computerized health information management systems.
• Skill in case management, time management, problem solving, crisis intervention, multitasking, and other organizational matters.
• Skill in modifying methods and techniques of professional nursing to provide appropriate nursing care and in initiating appropriate emergency response and investigatory procedures.
• Ability to analyze complex data and draw conclusions.
• Ability to interpret, adapt, and apply guidelines and procedures.
• Ability to establish/maintain effective working relationships with patients, clinical staff, and the public.