23157316
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists
Bridgeport, CT
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Description
Job Schedule: Full TimePhysician Assistant Benefits:
Position Details:
Hartford HealthCare St. Vincent’s Medical Center is seeking a Physician Assistant to join their Acute Care/Trauma team. The successful candidate will be responsible for various functions including responding to trauma activations, consulting on acute care patients, first assisting in the operating room, rounding, bedside procedures and hospital consults. APPs will work in collaboration with a number of surgeons including trauma surgeons and general surgeons.
Role: Physician Assistant
Location: 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, 06606
Setting: Inpatient, surgical subspecialties
Schedule: Full-time (40 hours), 13-hour shifts. Rotating days, nights, weekends, holidays.
Call schedule: No call
Hartford HealthCare supports Physician Assistants in practice:
About St. Vincent’s Medical Center:
St. Vincent’s Medical Center is a Magnet Hospital that has been named Best Hospital in Fairfield County and in all of Western Connecticut for 2013 - 2014 by US News & World Report. We are the primary teaching hospital for the Frank Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. St. Vincent’s Medical Center was the first institution in the state to pioneer endovascular vein harvesting.
About Hartford HealthCare:
Physician Assistants Role Scope:
Under established guidelines and in collaboration and/or supervision with the practice physician(s), Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants perform routine physical examinations, and formulate medical, educational, and psychosocial plans to treat patients.
In consultation with the physician(s) and care team members, Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants develop plans for further evaluation of health needs, e.g., referral to other health team members or specialists.
Nurse Practitioners or Physician Assistants provide appropriate treatment for problems within the scope of the provider’s practice as designated by protocols and identifies problems outside of their scope of practice and refers appropriately to physician.
Qualifications
Requirements:
Preferred Requirements:
Interested candidates please contact Jennifer Straka, Advanced Practice Recruiter, at [email protected] or (860) 996-4441.