Full Job Description
Job Category:
Nurse Practitioner Jobs
Position Type:
Regular
Hours Per Week:
Full time 40 hours per week
FT/PT/PD:
Full time
NP or PA position summary:
Experience: Clinical experience is desired, but recent graduates will be considered
Department: Hospitalist Service
$10,000 Sign on Bonus (New graduates are not eligible for bonus)
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.
