Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant, Clinical Instructor, Surgery, Breast Surgery

Description

In this role, you will work collaboratively with our breast surgery team, to provide care for patients with breast cancer as well as other non-cancerous breast disease.  As a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA), you will be entrusted with evaluating and treating selected patients within this service area.  This will include new patients and follow-up patients.  Your responsibilities will encompass physical examinations, direct patient interactions (both in-person and through electronic means).  Flexibility is vital, as all NP's/PA's may be required to cover nearby clinical sites to ensure comprehensive patient support.  You may also be involved with quality improvement, research, and educational activities.

Job Responsibilities:

• Takes histories and performs physical examinations.
• Initiates, documents, and communicates the plan of care and follows up to ensure complete screening and preparation of patients.
• Writes orders for medications, laboratory work, and diagnostic tests.
• Interprets laboratory and test results.
• Confers with attending physicians, residents, nursing staff, and/or other care providers to ensure optimum quality of patient care.
• This is mostly an outpatient position.  But there may be rare occasion for inpatient care, such as rounds, discharge planning, discharge summaries, and prescriptions.

Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT:

• Bachelor’s Degree (foreign equivalent or higher).
• Graduate of an accredited (Accreditation Review Committee for Physician Assistant Programs, ARC-PA) program.
• Current license to practice as a Physician Assistant (PA) by the New York State Department of Education.
• Current NCCPA Certification from the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
• Current BLS certification.
• Minimum 2 years experience as a Physician Assistant.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS - NURSE PRACTITIONER:

• Current license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner (NP) by the New York State Department of Education.
• Master’s degree (foreign equivalent or higher) in Nursing and graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program.
• National Practitioner Certification issued by the National Certification Corporation (NCC), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or the Nurse Practitioner Certification Board (AANPCB).
• Current BLS certification.
• Minimum 2 years experience as a Nurse Practitioner.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with breast exams, or other types of breast exams.
• Breast surgery experience (at least 2 years).

Application Instructions

All application materials must be submitted online.  Please use the Apply Now button to begin your application.  For technical support, please visit Interfolio's Support Site (https://support.interfolio.com/) or reach out to their Scholar Service Team at help@interfolio.com or (877) 997-8807.

For questions regarding this position, please contact Tracey Erickson at 631-638-2326.

Special Notes
Non-Tenure Track position.  FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA.

Anticipated Start Date:  As soon as possible.

Campus Description
Long Island's premier academic medical center, Stony Brook Medicine, represents Stony Brook University's entire medical enterprise and integrates all of Stony Brook's health-related initiatives:  education, research and patient care.  It encompasses Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook Children's Hospital, the five Health Sciences schools -- Dental Medicine, Health Professions, Medicine, Nursing and Social Welfare -- as well as the major centers and institutes, programs and more than 50 community-based healthcare settings throughout Suffolk County.  With 624 beds, Stony Brook University Hospital serves as Suffolk County's only tertiary care center and Regional Trauma Center.  Stony Brook Children's, with more than 180 pediatric specialists in 30 specialties, offers the most advanced pediatric specialty care in the region. In the Medical and Research Translation (MART) building, two f