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The Mass General Brigham Medical Group is a system-led operating entity formed by Mass General Brigham to deliver high quality, low cost, innovative community-based ambulatory care. This work stems from Mass General Brigham’s unified system strategy to bring health care closer to patients while lowering total health care costs. The Medical Group provides a wide range of offerings, including primary care, specialty care, behavioral and mental health, and urgent care, both digitally as well as at physical locations in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine. The group also offers outpatient surgery and endoscopy, imaging, cardiac testing, and infusion. We share the commitment to delivering a coordinated and comprehensive experience across all locations, ensuring the appropriate level of care is available to every patient across our care delivery sites.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a full time, 40-hour Nurse Practitioner to join our Anticoagulation Management Service (AMS). This NP will work in a hybrid capacity spending three days per week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays) on-site seeing patients at our South Weymouth practice located at 541 Main Street in the Stetson Medical Center. Our hours of operation are 8:30AM to 5:00PM, Monday-Friday. The NP will work remotely on both Mondays and Thursdays supporting in-basket management, completing administrative hours, and conducting virtual visits with patients.
The AMS uses a primary nurse model to assess and intervene to best meet the anticoagulation management needs of patients and families while striving to optimize day-to-day outcomes of anticoagulation management. Our NPs partner with patients and families and multiple disciplines to manage long-term outpatient anticoagulation therapy in addition to procedural management, and communication among multidisciplinary teams. Major components of the role include patient and family education, short and long-term management of anticoagulation consistent with AMS Policies and Procedures.
Are you ready to bring your talent to this team and join us in driving medicine forward? In this full-time role, you will have access to a competitive benefits package tailored to meet your needs and the ability to work up to the top of your licensure in a fast-paced, team-centered environment.
Job Summary
The Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a licensed provider. The NP is responsible for the assessment and management of various populations of patients, medical and/or surgical, including diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, development of appropriate plans of care and ongoing evaluation. May also perform additional duties, such as precepting a small group of learners.Essential Functions
- Provides direct care, counseling, and teaching to a designated patient population in the ambulatory, inpatient, operative, and/or procedural setting.
- Performs complete histories and physical examinations.
- Orders, interprets, and evaluates appropriate laboratory and diagnostic tests.
- Develops appropriate plans of care and follow-up based on the outcomes of diagnostic, laboratory, and physical examination findings.
- Orders medications and writes prescriptions according to organizational and regulatory policies and procedures.
- Consistently provides high quality and timely documentation including admission and progress notes, procedure notes, operative notes and discharge summaries.
- Performs bedside procedures as are appropriate to the patient population.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
Qualifications
Education
Master's Degree in Nursing required
Licenses/Certifications
Registered Nurse [RN - State License] - Preferred
Basic Life Support [BLS Certification] - Preferred
Nurse Practitioner [NP] / Advanced Practice Registered Nurse [APRN] [State License] - Preferred
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Additional Responsibilities
- Provides a plan for anticoagulation management for patients receiving induction, bridging, and maintenance therapies.
- Is accountable to the patient and family for the initial and ongoing assessment and development of a patient-specific plan of care.
- Collaborates with referring providers to assure that an anticoagulation plan of care appropriate to patient specific risk is established.
- Uses AMS Policy and Procedure to optimize anticoagulation management.
- Monitors dosing and patient clinical response to therapeutic bridging medications and discontinues use per protocols.
- Monitors anticoagulant drug supply, reviews pertinent laboratory values to guide therapeutic decisions.
- Provides outpatient oversight for peri-procedural management of all anticoagulants.
- Provides oversight and collaboration concerning population specific dosing related to renal dysfunction, drug interactions or extremes of body weight.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior NP experience in cardiology, hematology, primary care, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, or anti-coagulation management strongly preferred.
- An autonomous, organized, and highly collaborative provider.
Remote Type
Hybrid
Work Location
541 Main Street
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Employee Type
Regular
Work Shift
Day (United States of America)
EEO Statement:
Mass General Brigham Medical Group Northern Massachusetts, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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