Physician Assistant​/Nurse Practitioner

UConn Health is looking for a highly skilled Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant with surgical experience this position will work in the Neag Cancer Center in the Outpatient Patient Breast Surgery Clinic.

This crucial role is responsible for independently performing a full range of tasks in delivery of direct clinical care services to surgical patients.

$10,000 Sign on bonus

SCHEDULE :
Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday, five 8-hour shifts or four
10-hour shifts. 30 minute unpaid meal break

• Evaluates, assesses patient illness/injuries
• Completes thorough history and physical examinations, providing a detailed and accurate history, examines and treats patients, orders and interprets laboratory tests and imagining studies; formulating diagnoses and treatment plans and prescribing medications and monitoring responses to medications and adjusting accordingly
• Documents and records progress notes and notifies attending physician of significant problems
• Develops plans of care
• Intervenes in crisis situations or patient deterioration; provides routine and illness care
• Provides comprehensive pre- and post-operative education and counseling to patients
• Coordinate preoperative evaluations as needed
• Assumes responsibility for maintaining continuity of care thru post-operative follow up visits; responds to calls; educates, screens and counsel patients, facilitates patient referrals to appropriate providers
• Maintains patient medical records
• May develop policies/procedures; participates in or designs changes in the system of care delivery
• May participate in clinical research
• Participates in medical student, resident, and health professional teaching; acts as a clinical consultant to peers and other health care professionals
• Performs all other duties as required

• Considerable knowledge of anatomy and physiology, knowledge of medical principles and procedures; knowledge of physical assessment, pathophysiology and pharmacology; knowledge of community resources; knowledge of theories and techniques for teaching/learning/counseling
• Knowledge of different disciplines and disease states
• Knowledge of medication and their interactions and reactions
• Excellent interpersonal skills; effective communication skills [written and verbal]; skilled in principles and practices of effective persuasive communication to elicit information and educate patients and families; good bedside manners; proficient computer skills.
• Ability to establish effective working relationships with physicians, ancillary, support staff, other departments and the public; ability to formulate plan of care
• Skill in performing invasive procedures such as aspirations, punch biopsies, and removing drains/sutures/staples
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to work under pressure
• Decision making ability

• Graduate of an accredited PA Program and/or completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program
• Current unencumbered Physician Assistant (PA) or Nurse Practitioner (APRN) License in the State of CT
• Connecticut Controlled Substance license and DEA license

• Surgical APP experience

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades.

In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.