Specific Information on Advanced Practice Positions
The University of Kansas Health System’s 400-plus advanced practice providers (APPs) play a vital role in patient care. APPs represent:
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs)
- A certified nurse midwife (CNM) is a licensed provider who cares for the health needs of pre-adolescent, adolescent, and adult women throughout their life span.
- A clinical nurse specialist (CNS) is an advanced practice nurse who provides high-quality healthcare services within a practice team and with a systems perspective.
- A certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) is an advanced practice nurse who specializes in anesthesia care.
- A nurse practitioner (NP) is an advanced practice nurse who provides high-quality healthcare services within a practice team.
Physician Assistant (PA)
Physician assistants (PAs) are healthcare professionals who practice medicine as members of a team with their supervising physicians.
The daily contributions by APPs to deliver high-quality, patient and family centered care is paramount to fulfill the vision at University of Kansas Health System Great Bend to lead the nation in caring, healing, teaching and discovering.
Advanced Practice Providers are educated at the graduate level (master’s or doctoral) and may work in either a specialist or generalist capacity. The basis of Advanced Practice is the high degree of knowledge, skill and experience that is applied within the patient relationship to achieve optimal outcomes through critical analysis, problem solving and evidenced-based decision making.
The Advanced Practice Provider Council (APPC)
The APPC is comprised of APRNs, PA-Cs, CRNAs, CNSs, and CNMs who regularly meet to provide input into operational, research, and policy issues that impact the practice and/or clinical scope of APPs at of Kansas Health System. The council’s mission is to provide support for existing and emerging practices of APPs to deliver world-class patient care and to ensure the excellence of future patient care through caring, healing, teaching and discovering.
Opportunity Areas and General Information
Advanced Practice Professionals work in a variety of areas across the health system:
- Cardiology
- Endocrinology
- ICU
- Neonatal and Pediatrics
- Neurology
- OB/GYN
- Oncology
- Orthopedics
- Surgery
- Trauma
- Urgent Care
- Urology
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