Ambulatory Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA): Orthopaedic Spine

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.

We are seeking a full-time Orthopaedic Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant to work in The University of Maryland Spine Program. Our spine program offers comprehensive, state-of-the-art evaluation and non-surgical and surgical treatment of all spinal disorders.

In this role, you will help care for orthopaedic patients in an outpatient setting while working with well-respected spine surgeons in a premier academic hospital center as well as working in collaboration with residents and fellows. The position is Monday–Friday with no evenings, weekends, holidays and no call. 

The provider will need to travel between locations which include: Laurel, Columbia, Camden yards, hunt valley and occasional BWMC 

Primary Responsibilities:

•    Interview patients for health history and perform physical examination in both independent and collaborative clinics with spine surgeons. 

•    Order and evaluate appropriate diagnostic and laboratory tests

•    Document H & P, progress notes, and treatment plans

•    Act as liaison between patients and physicians to coordinate recommended patient care as well as pre- and post-operatively

•    Participate in multi-disciplinary quality and service improvement meetings

 

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Education/Training – Graduation from a Physician Assistant program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). Bachelor's degree required OR A Master of Science degree, with completion of a Nurse Practitioner Program.

•    Experience – Experience is preferred, but not necessary. New graduates are welcome to apply. 

•    License/Certification – National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) certification. Current license with the Maryland Board of Physicians. OR Registered and currently recorded with the Maryland Board of Nursing, and certified as a Nurse Practitioner in the area of specialization 

 

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• Pay Range: $54.34-$77.08

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