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UConn Health is looking for a highly skilled Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant to work in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. This crucial role is responsible for independently performing a full range of tasks in delivery of direct clinical care services.
SCHEDULE: Full time, 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday, four (4) 10-hour shifts, 30 minute unpaid meal break
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:
Evaluates, assesses patient illness/injuries
Completes thorough history and physical examinations, providing a detailed and accurate history, examines and treats patients, orders and interprets laboratory tests and imagining studies; formulating diagnoses and treatment plans and prescribing medications and monitoring responses to medications and adjusting accordingly
Documents and records progress notes and notifies attending physician of significant problems
Develops plans of care
Intervenes in crisis situations or patient deterioration; provides routine and illness care
Provides comprehensive pre- and post-operative education and counseling to patients
Coordinate preoperative evaluations as needed
Assumes responsibility for maintaining continuity of care thru post-operative follow up visits; responds to calls; educates, screens and counsel patients, facilitates patient referrals to appropriate providers
Maintains patient medical records
May develop policies/procedures; participates in or designs changes in the system of care delivery
May participate in clinical research
Participates in medical student, resident, and health professional teaching; acts as a clinical consultant to peers and other health care professionals
Performs all other duties as required
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:
Considerable knowledge of anatomy and physiology, knowledge of medical principles and procedures; knowledge of physical assessment, pathophysiology and pharmacology; knowledge of community resources; knowledge of theories and techniques for teaching/learning/counseling
Knowledge of different disciplines and disease states
Knowledge of medication and their interactions and reactions
Excellent interpersonal skills; effective communication skills [written and verbal]; skilled in principles and practices of effective persuasive communication to elicit information and educate patients and families; good bedside manners; proficient computer skills.
Ability to establish effective working relationships with physicians, ancillary, support staff, other departments and the public; ability to formulate plan of care
Skill in performing invasive procedures such as aspirations, punch biopsies, and removing drains/sutures/staples
Ability to work independently
Ability to work under pressure
Decision making ability
EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:
General Experience:
Graduate of an accredited PA Program and/or completion of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program
Current unencumbered Physician Assistant (PA) or Nurse Practitioner (APRN) License in the State of CT
Connecticut Controlled Substance license and DEA license
SPECIAL REQUIREMENT:
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WHY UCONN HEALTH
UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.
