Outpatient Neurosurgery Nurse Practitioner
Outpatient Neurosurgery Nurse Practitioner
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Boston Medical Center (BMC) is more than a hospital. Its a network of support and care that touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in need each year. It is the largest and busiest provider of trauma and emergency services in New England. Emphasizing communitybased care BMC is committed to providing consistently excellent and accessible health services to alland is the largest safetynet hospital in New England. The hospital is also the primary teaching affiliate of the nationally ranked Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and a founding partner of Boston HealthNet an integrated health care delivery systems that includes many community health centers. Join BMC today and help us achieve our Vision 2030 which is a longterm goal to make Boston the healthiest urban population in the world.
Position: Nurse Practitioner
Department: Neurosurgery
Schedule: 40 hours
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Department of Neurosurgery at Boston Medical Center is a fullservice clinical and academic program that provides advanced treatment for patients with a broad spectrum of diseases and disorders of the brain nerves spine and spinal cord. Our team includes highly experienced neurosurgeons who subspecialize in all major areas of neurosurgery. We also have multidisciplinary programs in trauma neurooncology and cerebrovascular disease that provide our patients with a broad spectrum of treatment options. We work with our colleagues to provide our patients with the highest level care in a truly compassionate environment.
The Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant hired for this role will perform clinical duties under the general supervision of a paired physician and report to the Chief Physician Assistant and the Administrative Director in the Department of Neurosurgery. The candidate will be responsible for providing outpatient clinical care in support of the overall Neurosurgery practice.
This role will be structured with primary focus on outpatient activities 4 days a week/10hrs No Fridays No nights No weekends No holidays. Responsibilities will include shared clinics with neurosurgery physicians and eventually some clinics where the candidate will function as an independent practitioner seeing ambulatory (primarily established) patients and postoperative patients. Responsibilities also include tracking of a patient panel triaging patient calls managing outside communications including work forms letters insurance paperwork.
The ideal candidate would have excellent interpersonal skills with patients and staff able to manage various tasks in a timely and efficient manner and enjoy working with an underserved / underrepresented patient population.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES:
General Responsibilities:
- Obtaining complete medical history and performing a physical examination.
- Ordering and interpreting laboratory tests and imaging studies.
- Formulating a diagnosis and treatment plan.
- Evaluates outcomes of patient care and makes necessary revisions in care plan.Sets priorities for appropriate and efficient management of patient care that reflects cost effective management of time available human resources supplies and equipment.
- Performs physical examinations within prescribed guidelines and appropriate to patient needs.
- Records pertinent patient care findings in the medical record.
- Maintains interdisciplinary approach to planning and communicating patient care information by discussing patient data with appropriate physicians and other health care professionals.
- Seeks and provides consultative services as required.
- Demonstrates awareness of community resources and assists staff patients and families to effectively utilize them.
- Prescribing and/or dispensing medication.
- Assisting in surgery or other invasive procedures.
- Rounding on admitted patients.
- Counseling patients and families and other patient care duties.
- May be involved with a patients medical care in any role which the attending physician deems proper and consistent with applicable law hospital regulations delineation of privileges and the Physician Assistants training knowledge skill and experience.
- Expert clinical judgment and ability to be selfdirective and demonstrate initiative in an expanded role.
- Demonstrated critical thinking problem solving and conflict resolution skills.
- Organizational skills to set priorities and efficiently complete assigned work.
- Effective interpersonal skills to facilitate communication with the various members of the health care team patients and families.
- Computer proficiency inclusive of the ability to access enter and interpret computerized data/information required.
- Physical ability to meet the core job responsibilities in accordance with the practice setting demands for the patient populations regularly served.
- Full command (verbal and written) of the English language.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
Qualified Nurse Practitioners will:
- Hold Masters degree in nursing
- Have current license to practice as a registered nurse in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with authorization by the Board of Registration in Nursing to practice in an expanded
- Be registered with the ANCC or other accrediting organization for Nurse Practitioners
Candidates will have:
- A Massachusetts Controlled Substances Registration
- A Federal DEA Controlled Substance Registration
- Current BLS and ACLS Certification.
- A minimum of three years of current clinical experience required.
- Prior experience in similar clinical setting/specialty preferred.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans
Employment Type
Full-Time
