Physician Assistant, Orthopedics

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Newton-Wellesley Hospital

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The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system‑led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality, low cost, innovative community‑based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham’s unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.

The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites.

We are seeking a Per Diem Physician Assistant to support our Inpatient Orthopedics team. Schedules are settled months in advance giving per diem employees the opportunity to select from a variety of shifts on a monthly basis (days, evenings, nights, weekdays, and weekends) with no minimum or maximum coverage requirements. Depending upon the PA's availability, our per diem shifts can range from 8-13 hours.

We are located on the NWH Main Campus at 2014 Washington Street, Newton, 02462.

Our PAs are responsible for covering the Emergency Department and the inpatient floor while also conducting inpatient surgical consults and providing Operating Room coverage. The Physician Assistants on the Pediatrics Orthopedics team share some of their time with the NWH Neurological Surgery Service. Providers work autonomously to the top of their licensure and are responsible for:

• Present and discussing their evaluations with Attending Surgeons to determine proper treatment plans
• Ordering diagnostic tests and interpreting results
• Performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including but not limited to: wound care/debridement; tube/drain insertion, care or removal; suturing/suture removal; insertion or removal of traction pins; splint, brace or cast application or removal; medication administration including IV push drugs and the injection of steroid and anesthetic agents; insertion or removal of central venous lines; insertion of nasogastric tubes; bladder catheterization; phlebotomy and IV insertion;
  
  and electrocardiograms
• Conducting daily patient rounds and attending weekly grand surgical rounds
• Participating in the discharge planning process
• Educating and counseling patients and families
• Orienting medical students, physician assistant and surgical residents to the environment, patient care practices, and hospital policies and procedures
• Participating in the quality improvement/quality assurance process

• Provides direct care, counseling, and teaching to a designated patient population in the ambulatory, inpatient, operative, and/or procedural setting.
• Performs complete histories and physical examinations.
• Orders, interprets, and evaluates appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests.
• Develops appropriate plans of care and follow-up based on the outcomes of diagnostic, laboratory, and physical examination findings.
• Orders medications and writes prescriptions according to organizational and regulatory policies and procedures.
• Consistently provides high quality and timely documentation including admission and progress notes, procedure notes, operative notes and discharge summaries.
• Performs bedside procedures as are appropriate to the patient population.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.