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Phys Asst - Bone & Joint / Department Of Orthopedics

Requisition ID:

23151122

Business Unit:

Hartford Hospital

Location:

Hartford, CT

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Description

Job Schedule: Full Time
Standard Hours: 40
Job Shift: Shift 1
Shift Details: hour shifts totaling 40hrs/wk (including holiday, off shift, and weekends). Additionally, there will be a component of weekend call and hand call.

  • Perform and document complete H&Ps. Entering appropriate information and orders into the EMR.
  • Perform Emergency Department and inpatient orthopedic consultations
  • Order and obtaining necessary diagnostic tests including imaging studies and laboratory tests. Following through on interpretation of results and communicating with the team.
  • Pre-operative, and operative responsibilities including 1st and 2nd assisting in the operating room.
  • Request consultations from other services, obtain appropriate work up and follow through on recommendations.
  • Participate in daily rounds and assist with implementing management plan in collaboration with multidisciplinary team and attending.
  • Procedures to include: splinting, reducing fractures/dislocations, aspirations/injections
  • Enter, review, and update orders in the EMR to include: PT, OT, Speech, IV therapy, medications, restraints, patient care, and discharge orders.
  •  Addressing and consulting patient and family member concerns and questions.
  • Document patient encounters into the EMR including, but not limited to: admissions, progress, event, procedure or discharge notes.
  • Perform procedures as credentialed.
  • Provide quality, holistic & cost-effective advance practice care for orthopedic patients.
  • Provide inpatient transitional support when needed
  • Perform and document consults and complete H&Ps FOR THE HAND SERVICE. Entering appropriate information and orders into the EMR
  • Order and obtaining necessary diagnostic tests including imaging studies and laboratory tests.
  • Following through on interpretation of results and communicating with the ATTENDING.
  • Pre-operative, and operative responsibilities including 1st and 2nd assisting in the operating room
  • IMPLEMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN IN COLLABORATION WITH ATTENDING HAND SURGEON
  • Procedures to include BUT NOT LIMITED TO: splinting, reducing HAND fractures/dislocations, BEDSIDE HAND I&Ds, HAND LACERATION REPAIR, NAIL REMOVAL
  • Addressing and consulting patient and family member concerns and questions
  • Provide quality, holistic & cost-effective advance practice care for HAND patients

Qualifications

  • Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant / Nurse Practitioner Master’s program preferred
  • Licensed, or eligible to be licensed, as a Physician Assistant / Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) in the state of Connecticut
  • Certification or eligible to be certified as a Physician Assistant or National Board Certification as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse through AACN or ANCC.  
  • AGACNP Board Certification as an acute care nurse practitioner and / or Orthopedic experience
 
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