Breast Surgery NP/ PA

Nuvance Health Med Practice CT•Danbury, CT

24d•$120,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

Nuvance Health has an excellent opportunity for a full-time, experienced Breast Surgery Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant in Danbury, Connecticut. The Advanced Practitioner will see patients independently in our outpatient office, following a Monday-Friday office schedule with some phone call. The ideal candidate will be a board-certified Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant with strong training and experience in breast surgery. The role includes collaborating with the Breast Team side by side to ensure appropriate patient follow up as well as communication with patients' PCP, managing a patient panel, and evaluating and administering plans and care to postoperative patients as well as seeing long-term follow up patients.

Requirements

Board certified Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant with strong training and experience in breast surgery.
Minimum formal education of Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant training.
State of CT license.
Federal DEA and CT Controlled Substance Registration.

Responsibilities

Assesses the condition of the patient in the breast surgery practice by examination.
Reviews with the patient the medical history and physical data from the patient's medical record.
Establishes a new treatment plan or reinforces the current plan.
Orders the appropriate laboratory and diagnostic procedures required to evaluate the state of the patient's medical condition.
Interprets and integrates data to determine the appropriateness of the therapeutic treatment plan.
Consults with supervising physicians in accordance with the practice's policies and medical standards to assure patient and physician satisfaction.
Records all symptoms, objective findings, assessment, treatment plan and other information that is appropriate in the patient's chart and signs the record.
Instructs the patient and family regarding the patient's diagnosis, testing, expected outcome and future prevention.
Evaluates the outcome of the treatment plan by reviewing diagnostic results with the patient through phone calls and return visits.
Performs total quality improvement processes and initiatives to achieve the Practice's and hospital's mission.