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Nurse Practitioner Complex Care - General Pediatrics
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- Penn State Health - Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Location : US:PA:Hershey Work Type : Full Time FTE : Shift : Varied Hours : Day Shift Recruiter : Please contact Esther Zechman at for additional information.
- SUMMARY OF POSITION : This APP will work in General Pediatrics to provide care to children from birth through young adulthood with in-depth knowledge and experience in pediatric primary health care including well-child care and prevention/management of common pediatric acute illnesses and chronic conditions.
- The complex care program is responsible for the overall medical management of children with medical complexity: patients who have some type of medical technology ( tracheostomy, gastrostomy tube), are followed by multiple subspecialists and require frequent emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
- The nurse practitioner/physician assistant will be responsible for inpatient consults when patients of complex care are admitted to the hospital to provide continuity of care, outpatient hospital follow-up visits, acute sick visits, as well as answering phone calls and messages from families and other agencies involved in the child's care.
- The nurse practitioner/physician assistant will also assess complex care program referrals to determine eligibility and schedule where appropriate.
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