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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