Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitoner (APRN) / Urology Plainville at Hartford HealthCare

Description

Excellence, Safety, Caring, Integrity…. What do you value?  

Join us at Hartford HealthCare Medical Group as we live our values every day. As part of Hartford HealthCare, we create a better future for healthcare in Connecticut and beyond. By embodying these values, we have become nationally respected for patient care and most trusted for personalized coordinated care. Come be part of something special!

Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is one of the largest medical practices in New England with multiple locations throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island. Hartford HealthCare Medical Group consists of a team of professionals ranging from Medical Assistants to Physician Assistants and everything in between.  This physician led medical group enjoys an excellent reputation with patients and the medical community, offering primary care, urgent care and more than 30 different specialties.

Physician Assistant Role Scope-

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) will work in an ambulatory setting and will be responsible for the evaluation of urology patients presenting with urgent and/or elective kidney stones as well as management of patients following emergency care and surgery. The Stones APP will counsel patients on stone prevention, schedule patients for stone surgery, when appropriate, and coordinate care for testing for metabolic stones evaluations, collaborating with urologists, nephrologists and other healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive care for stones patients.

Our APPs initiate patient care meetings with the health care team to revise the plan of care as warranted. They participate in total quality management to positively affect patient and system outcomes to improve care. The position does allow for the possibility to cover nearby practice locations with Monday through Friday schedules with no call!

•       Provides direct patient care in office consultations, including assessment, workups, triage, emergency work-ins, and other patient care activities. Position specializes in treating patients with kidney stones and other general urologic conditions

•       Obtains and documents health history, performs and documents physical exam, and orders and interprets diagnostic tests

•       Provides counseling to patients regarding diagnosis and expected course of treatment

•       Collaborates with physician(s) to provide appropriate direct care interventions within scope of practice

•       Collects, organizes, records, and discusses data as appropriate and uses sound clinical judgment based in best practice standards and evidenced based medicine

•       Prescribes pharmaceuticals according to patient needs and conducts appropriate patient follow-up & outreach

•       Ensures timely retrieval of laboratory and ancillary studies and diagnostic consultation reports

•       Consults with appropriate internal and external staff to make appropriate referrals for acute, chronic and preventive care

•       Coordinates patient care and visits with appropriate clinical and non-clinical staff

Shift - Full Time

Monday – Friday

Travel is required between Hartford and Central Region

Advanced Practitioners Enjoy

At Hartford HealthCare newly graduated and experienced practitioners are provided with the support and mentorship they need to succeed through on the job, classroom, and procedural training. Our benefits include: 

• Great work location in Central Connecticut


• Competitive compensation


• Matching 401K, tiered medical, dental, and vision plans 


• Generous paid time off


• Reimbursement for CME, professional society membership, licensure, and malpractice


• State of the art clinical and informatics technology


• LEAN process improvement to drive quality outcomes and positively enhance both the patient and the provider experience


• EPIC electronic medical record


• Mentorship and training to work independently with opportunities to provide


• Well run, efficient clinical and administrative business operations in a growing and financially secure organization


• Proven and effective onboarding with supportive ongoing mentorship

Qualifications

Advanced Practitioner Requirements

•        Master’s degree in nursing

•       National Certification in Advanced Practice and current CPR certification

•       Current State of CT APRN license with prescriptive authority and current DEA number

•       2 years of experience (urology preferred)

•       Excellent clinical management skills and proven ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and take lead when appropriate

•       Positive, customer-focused approach, with commitment to providing excellent patient care

•       Excellent written and verbal communication skills.  Ability to communicate in other languages – highly desirable

•       Ability to communicate technical information clearly to patients of all ages

•       Highly organized with demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize competing tasks with full autonomy

•       Knowledge of computer systems, including experience with medical software (Epic)

•       Ability to adhere to HHC MG policies and standards of service as well as HIPAA requirements, OSHA regulations and Infection Control standards

•       Communicates tactfully and effectively and demonstrates a commitment to superior patient care

•       Establishes and maintains effective work relationships and an achievement-oriented attitude

•       Displays courtesy and helpfulness when interacting with all internal and external customers

•       Exhibits strong personal initiative and proactively acts to achieve goals beyond what is required or assigned