NP/PA Ortho

Responsibilities

• Act as a First Assistant in Orthopedic Surgeries except spine.
• Respond to the Emergency Department for consultations and orthopedic procedural work, and round on the units.
• Rounding on the orthopedic unit.
• Completes patient work-up including patient history, physical exam, order appropriate laboratory tests, x-ray studies, and any other diagnostic studies or procedures needed.
• Interprets test results and physical findings, writing initial and ongoing orders, progress notes and medications, and execute the discharge plan for the patients.
• Provides consultations to physicians, nurses, other allied health professionals, health care agencies, and nursing homes.
• Makes daily hospital rounds including pre- and post-operative and charts progress notes as required or as necessary.
• Performs discharge summaries, chart rounds, and staffing conference summaries.
• Prescribes outpatient medications and therapies and performs diagnostic or therapeutic procedures as needed.
• First call for all orthopedic emergency department patients in conjunction with the orthopedic attendings.

Requirements

• Candidates must have completed their degree from an Accredited Physician Assistant Program and be Board Certified or Board eligible as a Physician Assistant.
• Experience in Orthopedics is preferred, but not required.
• Must have Michigan license or be eligible.

Qualifications

• Analytic ability to fully assess a patient, derive a differential diagnosis, order and interpret data and help develop the treatment plan.

Benefits

• Trinity Health offers the opportunity to utilize the latest orthopedic technology available.
• The facility has earned a reputation as a top health care institution, and leading national and regional magazines rank Trinity Health as a "Top Hospital" with "Top Doctors."

Pay

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Schedule

Details about the schedule are not specified in this posting.