Nurse Practitioner​/Physician Assistant-Primary Care

Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant-Primary Care

CT, United States (On-site)

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Connecticut Children’s is the only health system in Connecticut that is 100% dedicated to children. Established on a legacy that spans more than 100 years, Connecticut Children’s offers personalized medical care in more than 30 pediatric specialties across Connecticut and in two other states. Our transformational growth establishes us as a destination for specialized medicine and enables us to reach more children in locations that are closer to home.

Our breakthrough research, superior education and training, innovative community partnerships, and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion provide a welcoming and inspiring environment for our patients, families and team members.

At Connecticut Children’s, treating children isn’t just our job – it’s our passion. As a leading children’s health system experiencing steady growth, we’re excited to expand our team with exceptional team members who share our vision of transforming children’s health and well‑being as one team.

Independently completes thorough evaluations of pediatric patients (from neonates to adolescents and young adults). Develops and implements informed management plans encompassing complicated and atypical diagnoses, with the ability to modify plans as necessary. Anticipates and triages urgent and emergent issues. Collaborates care and facilitates communication with the supervising physician and the inter‑professional team. Coordinates recommendations to optimize patient care and foster collaborative practice.

Incorporates a broader organization awareness into decision‑making and interpersonal relationships.

Primary Care. Serves as the PCP for a panel of patients, emphasizing comprehensive care and continuity of care in a PCMH model. Routinely incorporates quality metrics and reports from CT Children’s and payers. Reviews reports and consults from other care providers and independently generates a plan of care, including for those with complex or uncommon conditions and proactive outreach. Supports less experienced APPs and trainees in panel management skills.

Medical knowledge

• Clinical knowledge. Integrates a breadth of medical knowledge that includes complicated and atypical conditions to guide patient care, incorporating evidence‑based practice and current literature to support care.
• Diagnostic Evaluation. Prioritizes and optimizes evaluation based on risks, benefits, indications, and alternatives to clarify the diagnosis(es). Interprets clinical significance of diagnostic study results while considering study limitations.

Patient History. Gathers, filters, prioritizes, and synthesizes patient history to develop a differential diagnosis in real‑time for complicated or atypical presentations in addition to the uncomplicated or typical.

Patient care

• Clinical reasoning. Integrates clinical facts (e.g., history, exam, tests, consultations, etc.) into a unifying diagnosis(es); reappraises in real time to avoid diagnostic error.
• Organize and prioritize patient care. Organizes, prioritizes, and collaborates with others on patient care responsibilities even when patient volume approaches the capacity of the individual or facility; anticipates and triages urgent and emergent issues.
• Patient management. Develops and implements informed management plans for complicated and atypical diagnoses, in addition to common and typical diagnoses, with the ability to modify plans as necessary.

Procedures as defined by clinical department. Applies full competency in core procedures. May assist in mentoring less experienced APPs in the performance of procedures. Please reference the “APP Procedures Listing” for those relevant to the Medical Specialty.

Interpersonal and Communication

• Patient and family centered communication. Establishes a culturally competent and therapeutic relationship in straightforward and complex encounters with patients/families, including those with ambiguity and/or conflict. Elicits patient/family values and incorporates awareness of these in communications with patient/family and in patient…