Advanced Practice Provider

Brown University Health; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 128,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Brown University Health's Inpatient PM&R Consult Service at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital seeks a clinically strong PA or NP to deliver high-level consultative rehabilitation care in a fast-paced academic environment. You will work alongside a physiatrist with neurorehabilitation subspecialty.

You will perform inpatient evaluations, guide discharge planning, collaborate with referring teams, and help determine post-acute care options across Brown University Health sites.

Qualifications

• Licensed or license-eligible Nurse Practitioner in Rhode Island.
• Experience caring for complex adult patients in acute care, consultative service, inpatient rehabilitation, or high-acuity academic medical center.
• Strong ability to communicate across teams and synthesize multidisciplinary information.
• Interest in neurorehabilitation and hospital-based PM&R.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and follow medically complex inpatients referred for PM&R consultation.
• Develop rehabilitation-focused assessments and plans with supervising physiatrist.
• Identify functional impairments and post-acute care needs.
• Participate in interdisciplinary discussions across hospital teams.
• Support timely implementation of mobility and rehabilitation recommendations.
• Monitor patient progress and update recommendations as status evolves.

Skills

Clinical judgement

Team collaboration

Professionalism

Operational savvy

Education

Nurse Practitioner license (Rhode Island)

Job description

Summary

The Inpatient PM&R Consult Service supports acute care patients at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital whose recovery depends on thoughtful, early, and highly coordinated rehabilitation assessment. This service works at the intersection of complex medical care, neurologic recovery, trauma, orthopedic and postsurgical management, discharge planning, and systems-based care.

The Advanced Practice Provider will work alongside and in support of a physiatrist with subspecialty training in neurorehabilitation, helping to deliver high-level consultative rehabilitation care in a fast-paced tertiary care academic environment. This role is designed for a clinically strong, operationally savvy, and highly collaborative PA or NP who is energized by medically complex patients, interdisciplinary care, and the opportunity to help shape an expanding hospital-based rehabilitation service.

• Provide high-quality, evidence-based assessment and co-management of acute hospital patients with complex medical, neurologic, trauma, orthopedic, and postsurgical conditions requiring rehabilitation expertise.
• Perform comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation evaluations, including functional assessment, mobility and self-care needs, rehabilitation candidacy, equipment needs, and discharge planning recommendations.
• Collaborate closely with referring medical, surgical, and subspecialty teams to identify rehabilitation needs early, reduce avoidable hospital length of stay, and facilitate safe, efficient transitions of care.
• Help determine the most appropriate next level of care, including discharge to home with outpatient PM&R follow-up, other post-acute rehabilitation services, or admission to Vanderbilt Inpatient Acute Rehabilitation at Newport Hospital within the Brown University Health system.
• Serve as a key liaison among the acute hospital teams, case management, therapy services, social work, nursing, and the inpatient consultative physiatrist to ensure timely communication and coordinated execution of care plans.
• Assist with administrative and care-coordination needs related to inpatient rehabilitation planning, documentation, transition management, and communication across sites and services.
• Provide backup clinical support on the acute rehabilitation unit, as needed, to support staffing and continuity of rehabilitation care.

Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another.

In Addition To Our Values, All Employees Are Expected To Demonstrate The Core Success Factors Which Tell Us How We Work Together And How We Get Things Done. The Core Success Factors Include

Instill Trust and Value Differences

Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and follow medically complex inpatients referred for PM&R consultation.
• Develop and document rehabilitation-focused assessments and plans in partnership with the supervising physiatrist.
• Identify functional impairments, activity limitations, rehabilitation goals, barriers to discharge, and post-acute care needs.
• Participate in interdisciplinary discussions with hospital medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, trauma, orthopedics, intensive care, case management, nursing, PT, OT, SLP, and social work.
• Support timely implementation of recommendations related to mobility, therapy intensity, precautions, equipment, spasticity-related issues, neuro-recovery needs, and longitudinal rehabilitation planning.
• Monitor patient progress and update recommendations as clinical status evolves.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

Licensed or license-eligible Nurse Practitioner in Rhode Island.

Experience

• Prior experience caring for complex adult patients in an acute care hospital, consultative service, inpatient rehabilitation setting, or other high-acuity academic medical center environment.
• Demonstrated strength in assessing medically complex and functionally impaired patients, synthesizing multidisciplinary information, and communicating clearly across teams.
• Strong interest in neurorehabilitation, medically complex rehabilitation, hospital-based PM&R, and transitions-of-care work.
• Ability to work with a high degree of professionalism, efficiency, clinical judgment, and accountability in a fast-paced tertiary care setting.
• Commitment to patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teamwork, operational excellence, and continuous quality improvement.

Supervisory Responsibility

None

Pay Range

$127,504.00-$161,782.40

EEO Statement

Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.

Location

LPG-Providence-765 Allens Ave - 765 Allens Avenue Providence, Rhode Island 02905

Work Type

M-F 8-4:30

Work Shift

Day

Daily Hours

8 hours

Driving Required

No