In collaboration with attending surgeons this role is responsible for providing skilled health care to patients in a variety of clinical settings and facilitating clinical management of patients by collaborating with attending surgeons clinical nurses and other members of health care teams The scope of responsibility is to assess plan evaluate and treat human responses to actual or potential surgical problems utilizing appropriate practices standards protocols and guidelinesmiddot Provides direct patient care for in office consultations including assessment workups triage procedures emergency work ins and other patient care activitiesmiddot Obtains and documents health history performs and documents physical exam and orders and interprets diagnostic testsmiddot Provides counseling to patients regarding diagnosis and expected course of treatmentmiddot Collaborate with physicians to provide appropriate direct care interventions within scope of practicemiddot Collects organizes records and discusses data as appropriate and uses sound clinical judgment based on best practice standards and evidence based medicinemiddot Prescribes pharmaceuticals according to patient needs and conducts appropriate patient follow up outreachmiddot Ensures timely retrieval of laboratory and ancillary studies and diagnostic consultation reportsShift ndash hours per weekPrimary Location Post Road Fairfield Provider will be expected to see patients at multiple sites once training is completed as we have satellite officesTraining Location Training for this position may occur at the Fairfield office or at another Hartford HealthCare location within ConnecticutThis role has the potential to evolve possibly including rounding at SVMC and assisting providers in the OR However the core responsibility will be focused on seeing patients in the outpatient clinicIn collaboration with attending surgeons this role is responsible for providing skilled health care to patients in a variety of clinical settings and facilitating clinical management of patients by collaborating with attending surgeons clinical nurses and other members of health care teams The scope of responsibility is to assess plan evaluate and treat human responses to actual or potential surgical problems utilizing appropriate practices standards protocols and guidelinesmiddot Provides direct patient care for in office consultations including assessment workups triage procedures emergency work ins and other patient care activitiesmiddot Obtains and documents health history performs and documents physical exam and orders and interprets diagnostic testsmiddot Provides counseling to patients regarding diagnosis and expected course of treatmentmiddot Collaborate with physicians to provide appropriate direct care interventions within scope of practicemiddot Collects organizes records and discusses data as appropriate and uses sound clinical judgment based on best practice standards and evidence based medicinemiddot Prescribes pharmaceuticals according to patient needs and conducts appropriate patient follow up outreachmiddot Ensures timely retrieval of laboratory and ancillary studies and diagnostic consultation reportsShift ndash hours per weekPrimary Location Post Road Fairfield Provider will be expected to see patients at multiple sites once training is completed as we have satellite officesTraining Location Training for this position may occur at the Fairfield office or at another Hartford HealthCare location within ConnecticutThis role has the potential to evolve possibly including rounding at SVMC and assisting providers in the OR However the core responsibility will be focused on seeing patients in the outpatient clinicmiddot Eligibility to be licensed in Connecticut as a Physician Assistant PA or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse APRN is requiredmiddot Eligibility to be certified as a Physician Assistant PA or National Board Certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner FNP Adult Nurse Practitioner ANP or Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner AGPCNP is requiredmiddot Current State of CT PAAPRN license with prescriptive authority and current DEA number attendance to maintain annual mandatory skill updatesmiddot years of experience in general surgerycolorectal surgery ambulatory surgery or acute care setting for surgical care preferredmiddot Eligibility to be licensed in Connecticut as a Physician Assistant PA or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse APRN is requiredmiddot Eligibility to be certified as a Physician Assistant PA or National Board Certification as a Family Nurse Practitioner FNP Adult Nurse Practitioner ANP or Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner AGPCNP is requiredmiddot Current State of CT PAAPRN license with prescriptive authority and current DEA number attendance to maintain annual mandatory skill updatesmiddot years of experience in general surgerycolorectal surgery ambulatory surgery or acute care setting for surgical care preferred