Advanced Practice Provider (PA) or (NP), Critical Care, Variable Shifts, 30 hrs/week

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General Summary: 

This position is for an Advanced Practice Provider supporting the UCSF-MarinHealth Musculoskeletal Service, as a team member with the UCSF Orthopedic Surgery program at MarinHealth Medical Center/Network. The position is anticipated to include inpatient and outpatient care as well as assistance in the operating room. It will be primarily located in Marin County at locations including MarinHealth Medical Center, outpatient clinics, and ambulatory surgery centers. The Advanced Practice Provider will work with multiple attending physicians and will evolve with the growth of the program as a team member.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: 

General Clinical Duties

Work with the physicians/surgeons/colleagues and other clinical and administrative staff to ensure efficient patient management based on accepted practice, including but not limited to, performing histories and physicals, pre-operative planning/coordinating with anesthesia/outside providers and PCPs as applicable, responding to change in patient status, providing needed prescriptions/evaluations/referral/treatments as permitted under their delegation of services agreement.  Provide home health services and DME, DMV evaluations, referrals, consultations, PT, and order radiographic or diagnostic requests, and specialized treatment privileges (e.g. chemotherapy with privilege certification).  May also provide patient education, and arrange follow-up appointments. Performs clinical assessments and management services on Orthopedic patients which includes interpretation of a history and physical exam. Coordinates perioperative patient care including the following roles:

• Performs pre-operative history and physical examinations.
• Facilitates patient education.
• Initiates pre-and-post-operative orders (subject to authorization/co-signature of responsible physician).
• Makes daily rounds on in-hospital patients as needed to evaluate patient progress and enter notes in chart, which will be countersigned by the physician.
• Makes daily rounds on weekends as set by a pre-determined schedule and as necessary
• Dictates discharge summaries.
• Removes sutures, staples, and drains; change dressings and performs appropriate wound care.