Nurse Practitioner​/Physician Assistant; Acute Care​/Trauma

Seeking an Advanced Practice Provider for our trauma and acute care surgery service. We are an accredited Level I trauma center in Southern California with 24 hours of in-house trauma surgeons and APPs.

• The role of the APP is autonomous, dynamic, and fast-paced, with functions of clinically managing trauma and acute care surgery patients through the continuum of care.
• Rounding, completing discharges, seeing new surgical consults, and responding to the traumas in the ED
• Incorporate independent decision-making abilities and collaboration with rotating resident physicians, attending surgeons, subspecialty consultants, and a multidisciplinary team of experts
• Performs all job functions with sensitivity and attention to the age and developmental milestones of the population served which include adult and geriatric
• Attend the surgical clinic every Wednesday to evaluate post-operative patients with a census ranging from 10 to 12 patients

• Work title:
  Acute-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Department:
  Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Division
• Position type:
  Full time
• Shift length: 12 hours, 7 am – 7 pm
• Shift type:
  Day
• Base Pay:
  Commensurate with experience