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Nurse Practitioner
Boston, Massachusetts
Organization Facility: New England Baptist Hospital Category: Advanced Practitioner / Advance Practice Provider / Physician Assistant Job ID: JR51915 Date posted: 05/22/2024Job Type: Regular
Time Type: Full time
Work Shift: Day (United States of America)
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Nurse Practitioner who possesses a thorough and detail-oriented approach to patient care as well as provide consultative medical support to orthopedic and other surgical patients throughout the hospital.Job Description:
The NP will provide consultative medical support to orthopedic and other surgical patients throughout the hospital. Responsibilities include performing initial consultation on high-risk post-operative patients in the orthopedic and spine services. Daily follow-up of these patients is required as determined by the patients’ medical status. Hospitalist NPs and PAs are expected to work closely with the orthopedic/surgical teams to coordinate patient care. This includes daily rounding, full assessment of medical conditions, reviewing accuracy of medications, management or perioperative medical conditions, daily documentation, and coordination of discharge with case manager and attending physician. The hospital is staffed, 24 hours a day, by a hospitalist physician who provides assistance and clinical supervision. Communication with patients’ PCPs is required when changes to patients’ medication profile are instituted and to arrange for follow-up of any post-operative complication. New England Baptist Hospital is a center of excellence for orthopedic surgery, and a large number of the post-operative orthopedic population has multiple co-morbidities. Therefore, a thorough and detail-oriented approach to patient care is essential, and a strong acute-care medical background is required.
EDUCATION, LICENSE, CERTIFCATION REQUIRED:
- Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner Program
- Current licensure to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) or Certification to practice as Adult or Family Nurse Practitioner
- A minimum of 2 to 4 years of acute care inpatient experience is required, preferably in the management of complex medical patients.
- Current DEA licenseCurrent American Heart Association BLS and ACLS certification
- Will consider New Graduate with Acute Care RN experience
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