Nurse Practitioner

Boston Medical Center; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 261,000 - 319,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Flexible spending accounts

403(b) savings matches

Paid time off

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Boston Medical Center is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to provide anesthesia care across various clinical settings. The role involves conducting pre-operative assessments and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe delivery of anesthesia services. Candidates should have a Master's degree, experience in critical care or acute settings, and current Massachusetts licensure.

Compensation ranges from $290,000, with benefits including medical coverage, retirement savings matches, and professional development resources.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program.
• Minimum of 1-2 years clinical nursing experience in acute care.
• Current or eligible Massachusetts Nurse Practitioner license.

Responsibilities

• Conduct pre-operative assessments for surgical patients.
• Order and interpret pre-operative testing.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure patient safety.

Skills

Clinical judgment

Collaboration

Patient safety

Critical thinking

Anesthesia knowledge

Communication

Education

Master's degree in Nurse Practitioner program

Tools

Electronic medical records systems

Anesthesia monitoring devices

Job description

Position Summary

The Nurse Practitioner provides anesthesia care across a variety of clinical settings within Boston Medical Center. The role is responsible for delivering safe, effective anesthesia services in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring compliance with institutional policies and regulatory standards. Position: Nurse Practitioner – Department: Anesthesia – Schedule: 40 hours.

Essential Responsibilities / Duties

• Conducts comprehensive pre-admission and pre-operative assessments for surgical and procedural patients, including review of medical history, medications, allergies, prior anesthesia history, functional status, comorbidities, and relevant diagnostic information.
• Identifies patients who require additional clinical optimization, specialty input, testing, medication planning or anesthesia review prior to surgery or procedures.
• Orders, reviews, interprets, and follows up on appropriate pre-operative testing within scope of practice, institutional policy, and established peri-operative protocols.
• Assesses and manages common peri-operative risk factors, including cardiovascular, pulmonary, endocrine, renal, anticoagulation, medication, frailty, and social or access-related considerations that may affect procedural readiness.
• Collaborates with anesthesiologists, surgeons, proceduralists, registered nurses, residents, primary-care providers, specialty consultants, and administrative staff to resolve clinical and operational issues before the day of surgery.
• Provides clear patient and family education regarding pre-operative instructions, medication management, testing needs, follow-up requirements, and peri-operative expectations.
• Completes accurate, timely, and thorough documentation in the electronic medical record and ensures pre-operative assessments meet hospital, departmental, regulatory, and clinical standards.
• Escalates complex, high-risk, incomplete, or time-sensitive cases to anesthesia, surgical, nursing, APP, or operational leadership as appropriate to support safe patient care and reliable OR/procedural throughput.
• Contributes to performance-improvement efforts related to patient readiness, PAT throughput, cancellation reduction, documentation quality, patient safety, resident education, and standard work development.

Job Requirements

• Master's degree or higher from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program.
• Clinical experience sufficient to independently perform pre-operative assessment, patient education, care coordination, and documentation within the nurse practitioner scope of practice.
• Experience evaluating adult patients with common acute and chronic medical conditions in a hospital, ambulatory, surgical, peri-operative, internal medicine, emergency medicine, critical care, cardiology, or procedural setting.

Certification, Licensure, and Registration

• Current or eligible Massachusetts Nurse Practitioner license.
• Current national board certification as a Nurse Practitioner in an appropriate population focus (Adult-Gerontology, Family, Acute Care, or other area acceptable to the department).
• Current BLS certification.
• Massachusetts Controlled Substances Registration and federal DEA registration, as applicable to clinical practice and institutional requirements.
• Eligibility for appointment, credentialing, and privileging as an Advanced Practice Provider at Boston Medical Center.
• Current ACLS certification or ability to obtain within a timeframe determined by the department.
• Additional certification or training relevant to peri-operative medicine, internal medicine, critical care, cardiology, anesthesia, or surgical patient optimization.

Experience

• Minimum of 1-2 years clinical nursing experience, ideally in a critical care or acute care setting.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strong clinical judgment and decision-making ability.
• Team-oriented with a focus on collaboration in high-acuity environments.
• Commitment to patient safety, quality care, and professional development.
• Exceptional critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities, particularly in high-pressure situations.
• In-depth knowledge of anesthesia principles, techniques, medications, and equipment.
• Proficiency in utilizing anesthesia technology, monitoring devices, and electronic medical record systems.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to collaborate with diverse healthcare professionals and interact with patients and their families.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of current anesthesia practices, research, and advancements.

Compensation

Compensation Range: $290,000 - $290,000. This range offers an estimate based on the minimum job qualifications. However, our approach to determining base pay is comprehensive and considers a broad range of factors when making an offer. This includes education, experience, skills, and certifications/licensure as they directly relate to position requirements; as well as business-organizational needs, internal equity, and market-competitiveness. In addition, BMC offers generous total compensation that includes, but is not limited to, benefits (medical, dental, vision, pharmacy), discretionary annual bonuses and merit increases, flexible spending accounts, 403(b) savings matches, paid time off, career advancement opportunities, and resources to support employee and family wellbeing.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Boston Medical Center is an equal employment/affirmative action employer. We ensure equal employment opportunities for all, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic. Boston Medical Center participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program. As an E-Verify employer, prospective employees of BMC must complete a background check before beginning employment. All staff are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and flu, and receive a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.