Onboarding NPs and PAs
According to SHM’s Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Committee, the integration of a new NP or PA hire, whether experienced or not, requires up-front organization and planning for the employee as he or she enters into a new practice.
To that end, the NP/PA Committee created a toolkit to aid health care organizations in their integration of NP and PA staffers into hospital medicine practice groups. The document includes resources for recruiting and interviewing NPs and PAs, information about orientation and onboarding, detailed descriptions of models of care to aid in the utilization of NPs and PAs, best practices for staff retention, insights on billing and reimbursement, and ideas for program evaluation.
Readers can download the Onboarding Toolkit in PDF format at shm.hospitalmedicine.org/acton/attachment/25526/f-040f/1/-/-/-/-/SHM_NPPA_OboardingToolkit.pdf.