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Job Description
Description Job Schedule: Full Time
Standard Hours: 40
Job Shift: Shift 1
Shift Details: Rotating all shifts, all days
Advanced Practitioner Benefits:
- Market-leading compensation and benefits and generous paid time off
- Paid CME time off plus CME budget, reimbursed professional licenses and dues
- Enhanced Tuition Assistance and Higher Education Partnerships
- Voluntary benefits include student loan programs, home, auto, renterxe2x80x99s insurance, identity theft protection, legal services, low-interest loans, pet insurance and more!
- Employee discount programs and colleague assistance offering resources and information for personal and work-life issues
- Family care benefits through Care.com including emergency back-up care benefit for children, adults and even pets!
Position Details:
The Central Region of Hartford Healthcare is hiring a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to join their critical care team. This full-time position offers a unique opportunity to work across both campuses, providing comprehensive care to critically ill patients at both MidState Medical Center and The Hospital of Central Connecticut. As an APP, you will play a crucial role in providing comprehensive and specialized care to a diverse patient population of complex medical and surgical patients. Duties include admissions, discharges, rounding, and procedures such as central lines, arterial lines, and chest tubes.
Role: Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner
Location: 435 Lewis Avenue, Meriden, 06451
Setting: Inpatient, critical care
Schedule: Full-time, rotating schedule (days, nights, weekends, holidays)
Call schedule: No call
Hartford HealthCare supports Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants in practice:
xc2xb7 Dedicated support and voice for our Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants through the Office of Advanced Practice directed by Sarah Clark, MBA, MHS, PA-C, BSN, RN, System Director of Advanced Practice
xc2xb7 Hartford HealthCare is one of the largest, non-profit, fully-integrated healthcare systems providing patient care in the state, allowing our providers to care for their patients no matter where they reside in Connecticut
xc2xb7 With tools like EPIC, Hartford HealthCarexe2x80x99s state of the art clinical and informatics technology promotes improved patient outcomes, streamlined continuity of care and superior provider satisfaction
About MidState Medical Center:
Serving the community since 1998, MidState Medical Center is a vibrant and progressive organization with a genuine concern for its patients, community, and employees alike. Earning top honors for quality stroke care, gold level recognition for organ donation, and employing leaders in the field of cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation, MidState provides the highest quality level of care while also being the only hospital in Connecticut to offer all private patient rooms and free parking for all patients and staff.
About Hartford HealthCare:
xc2xb7 Honored as a xe2x80x9cBest Organizations for Leadership Developmentxe2x80x9d by the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL)
xc2xb7 Prestigiously named one of the xe2x80x9cBest Hospitals to Work for in Connecticutxe2x80x9d by the Becker’s Hospital Review
xc2xb7 Committed to continuous development through The Center for Education Stimulation & Innovation (CESI), our Provider Leadership Development Institute and a robust on demand learning platform including CME, special courses, learning series and tools and resources
xc2xb7 Established Mentorship and Orientation programs specially designed for newly hired providers and providers new to practice
Physician Assistants/Nurse Practitioners Role Scope:
Under established guidelines and in collaboration and/or supervision with the practice physician(s), Physician Assistants/Nurse Practitioners perform routine physical examinations, and formulate medical, educational, and psychosocial plans to treat patients.
In consultation with the physician(s) and care team members, Physician Assistants/Nurse Practitioners develop plans for further evaluation of health needs, e.g., referral to other health team members or specialists.
Physician Assistants/Nurse Practitioners provide appropriate treatment for problems within the scope of the providerxe2x80x99s practice as designated by protocols and identifies problems outside of their scope of practice and refers appropriately to physician.
Qualifications
Requirements:
- Licensure: Unrestricted State of Connecticut Medical License (or eligible)
- Training: Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP certified)
- Experience: 1+ years as an Advanced Practitioner in critical care or equivalent setting