Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant, Per Diem
About The Position
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 or Physician Assistant, Per Diem Job Description: Hospitalist Service Job details: The NP/PA 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.
Requirements
- 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 license
- Current American Heart Association BLS and ACLS certification
Responsibilities
- provide consultative medical support to orthopedic and other surgical patients throughout the hospital
- 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
- work closely with the orthopedic/surgical teams to coordinate patient care
- daily rounding
- full assessment of medical conditions
- reviewing accuracy of medications
- management or perioperative medical conditions
- daily documentation
- coordination of discharge with case manager and attending physician
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
