Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner: Surgical Service

University of Maryland Medical System; Baltimore (MD); On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Baltimore is seeking a Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner to enhance surgical patient care. This role involves preoperative readiness, postoperative management, and effective communication within a surgical team, ensuring high-quality patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an approved Physician Assistant program required.
• Minimum of one year experience as a Nurse Practitioner required.

Responsibilities

• Support surgical service at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
• Evaluate and manage surgical consults and document timely.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Clinical Acumen

Education

Master’s Degree Physician Assistant Training Program

Basic Cardiac Life Support Certification

ACLS/PALS Certification

Job description

Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner: Surgical Service

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Company Description

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Company Description

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Job Description

UMMC is seeking an experienced Physician Assistant to support the growing surgical service at the University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus. This role will enhance the care provided to patients undergoing surgery, from the preoperative readiness to managing the postoperative course and assuring safe discharge. The successful candidate will possess strong clinical acumen as well as superior communication and interpersonal relationship skills. Duties will include evaluation and management of surgical consults, developing and executing treatments and plans of case, prompt and effective communication between the surgeons, hospitalists, consultants and medical team members, and timely documentation. **This position is working 3 12's - No Weekends**

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Graduation from a Master’s Degree Physician Assistant Training Program approved by the Board of Physician Quality Assurance is required. Evidence of current certification as a Physician’s Assistant by the Maryland Board of Physician Quality Assurance.

Certification or eligibility for certification by National Commission for Certifying Physician’s Assistants is required.

PHYSICIAN’S ASSISTANT

Registration by Maryland State Board for Medical Examiners as a Physician’s Assistant is required.

Copy of a letter of agreement approved by Board of Physician Quality Assurance is required.

Current Basic Cardiac Life Support Certification is required.

ACLS/PALS as required

A minimum of one (1) year experience as a Nurse Practitioner required.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient population(s) served. Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s requirements relative to his or her population-specific and age specific needs.
• Highly effective verbal and written skills are required to work with all levels of hospital personnel, administrators and clinical staff. Demonstrated/documented effective interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a team atmosphere and maximize efficient system operations.
  
  
  

Additional Information

• Pay Range: $54.34-$77.08
• Review the 2024-2025 UMMS Benefits Guide
  
  
  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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