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The Advanced Practice Clinician (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) practices in the acute care hospital setting as an integral member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team. In collaboration with physicians and other clinical staff, the APC delivers comprehensive, patient-centered care in both the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Progressive Care Unit (PCU). This role includes rotating coverage between the 12-bed ICU and 10-bed PCU (Intermediate Care Unit), as well as responding to Code Blue events, Rapid Response activations, and stroke alerts during overnight shifts.
Job Description
Responsibilities
The Advanced Practice Clinician (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) practices in the acute care hospital setting as an integral member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team. In collaboration with physicians and other clinical staff, the APC delivers comprehensive, patient-centered care in both the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Progressive Care Unit (PCU). This role includes rotating coverage between the 12-bed ICU and 10-bed PCU (Intermediate Care Unit), as well as responding to Code Blue events, Rapid Response activations, and stroke alerts during overnight shifts.
- Shift: Rotating, 40%/60% day/night.
Assessment & Management
- Performs complete history & physicals and documents in the medical record.
- Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
- The APP may serve as the first responder for both nursing and house staff in the event of patient status changes, orders, and in situations requiring procedural and resuscitative interventions.
- Assesses for risks associated with the care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions and diagnostic procedures.
Diagnosis
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.
- Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
- Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.
- Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions.
Formulates Plan of Care
- Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs.
- Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.
- Implements and modifies plan of care.
- Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.
- May perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation.
Communication and Collaboration
- Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team.
- Facilitates and communicates with patient, family, and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.
Documentation
- Documents/dictates key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and or clinic note where applicable. (H & P, daily progress notes, plan of care, problem lists, procedure notes, acute event note, discharge summaries, in medical record per specific patient unit or service, death summary)
- Documentation is timely, meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.
Professional Practice
- Demonstrates professional practice behaviors including preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of graduate students.
- Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice.
- Actively participates in Advance Practice Grand Rounds and specialty specific meetings.
- Maintains CEUs, and membership in a professional organization.
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree
- National Board Certification as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
- BLS & ACLS certification
- APC or nursing experience in critical care preferred
Work Shift
Rotating (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Jefferson University Physicians
Primary Location Address
2301 S Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
Job Details
The Advanced Practice Clinician (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) practices in the acute care hospital setting as an integral member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team. In collaboration with physicians and other clinical staff, the APC delivers comprehensive, patient-centered care in both the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Progressive Care Unit (PCU). This role includes rotating coverage between the 12-bed ICU and 10-bed PCU (Intermediate Care Unit), as well as responding to Code Blue events, Rapid Response activations, and stroke alerts during overnight shifts.
Job Description
Responsibilities
The Advanced Practice Clinician (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) practices in the acute care hospital setting as an integral member of a multidisciplinary healthcare team. In collaboration with physicians and other clinical staff, the APC delivers comprehensive, patient-centered care in both the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Progressive Care Unit (PCU). This role includes rotating coverage between the 12-bed ICU and 10-bed PCU (Intermediate Care Unit), as well as responding to Code Blue events, Rapid Response activations, and stroke alerts during overnight shifts.
- Shift: Rotating, 40%/60% day/night.
Assessment & Management
- Performs complete history & physicals and documents in the medical record.
- Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
- The APP may serve as the first responder for both nursing and house staff in the event of patient status changes, orders, and in situations requiring procedural and resuscitative interventions.
- Assesses for risks associated with the care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions and diagnostic procedures.
Diagnosis
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.
- Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
- Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.
- Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions.
Formulates Plan of Care
- Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs.
- Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.
- Implements and modifies plan of care.
- Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.
- May perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation.
Communication and Collaboration
- Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team.
- Facilitates and communicates with patient, family, and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.
Documentation
- Documents/dictates key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and or clinic note where applicable. (H & P, daily progress notes, plan of care, problem lists, procedure notes, acute event note, discharge summaries, in medical record per specific patient unit or service, death summary)
- Documentation is timely, meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.
Professional Practice
- Demonstrates professional practice behaviors including preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of graduate students.
- Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice.
- Actively participates in Advance Practice Grand Rounds and specialty specific meetings.
- Maintains CEUs, and membership in a professional organization.
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree
- National Board Certification as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
- BLS & ACLS certification
- APC or nursing experience in critical care preferred
Work Shift
Rotating (United States of America)
Worker Sub Type
Regular
Employee Entity
Jefferson University Physicians
Primary Location Address
2301 S Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as a Practice Assistant
Target practices with established hiring infrastructure
Large medical groups, hospital systems, and multi-location specialty practices hire Practice Assistants regularly and are more likely to have HR teams familiar with OPT work authorization and the H-1B visa sponsorship process than small independent offices.
Lead with your OPT authorization upfront
Mention your EAD and remaining OPT validity in your cover letter. Employers unfamiliar with F-1 OPT often assume international candidates require immediate sponsorship. Clarifying your current authorization reduces hesitation and moves your application forward faster.
Connect your degree directly to the role
Practice Assistant positions qualify for OPT when the work relates directly to your field of study. Be explicit in applications about how your degree in health sciences, biology, or administration connects to the specific responsibilities of the role.
Ask about H-1B sponsorship before accepting an offer
Raise sponsorship in later-stage interviews, not at the first contact. Ask whether the organization has sponsored H-1B visas for similar roles before. A yes means infrastructure exists. A no means you need to assess whether they are willing to start that process.
Track your OPT end date and cap-gap window carefully
If an employer files your H-1B petition before your OPT expires, cap-gap protection extends your work authorization automatically. Missing this window means a gap in employment eligibility, so coordinate your job search timeline around the April H-1B filing period.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for OPT-friendly employers
Migrate Mate surfaces Practice Assistant roles from employers who have sponsored international hires before. Filtering for visa-friendly positions saves significant time compared to applying broadly and discovering sponsorship limitations late in the hiring process.
Practice Assistant OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Practice Assistant role qualify for F-1 OPT work authorization?
Yes, if the position is directly related to your field of study. Practice Assistant roles typically qualify when your degree is in health sciences, healthcare administration, biology, or a closely related field. Your DSO can confirm whether a specific offer meets the OPT employment relationship requirement before you accept.
Can I work as a Practice Assistant on STEM OPT extension?
Yes, if your degree is in a STEM-designated field and the employer meets the E-Verify requirement. Many healthcare administration and health informatics degrees qualify for STEM OPT. The employer must also sign a formal training plan with you. Confirm your CIP code with your DSO to verify STEM eligibility before applying.
How do I find Practice Assistant employers who are open to sponsoring an H-1B?
Migrate Mate lists Practice Assistant jobs from employers with a documented history of international hires, which is the strongest signal that H-1B sponsorship is feasible. Beyond job boards, large hospital systems and academic medical centers sponsor most consistently. Asking directly during interviews about prior sponsorship history is the most reliable filter.
What happens to my work authorization if my OPT expires before I find a Practice Assistant job?
Your F-1 status includes a 60-day grace period after OPT expires, but you cannot work during that window. If an employer files an H-1B petition before your OPT end date, cap-gap protection keeps you authorized through September 30. Planning your search around the April H-1B filing window is critical if your OPT expires in the spring or summer.
Do Practice Assistant roles at small clinics or private practices typically offer visa sponsorship?
Less often than larger organizations. Small independent practices rarely have experience with immigration compliance or the budget for legal fees associated with H-1B petitions. Multi-location specialty groups, hospital-affiliated practices, and academic health systems are more realistic sponsorship targets. For OPT authorization alone, any employer can hire you without those constraints.