Nurse Practitioner (Thoracic Surgery)
2025 Graduates encouraged to apply!
- Mon-Fri 9 am – 5pm, Onsite
- $135,000 – $140,000
- Surgery experience preferred but not required
Minimum Qualifications
- NY state NP/PA license
- Ability to perform comprehensive history and physical examination.
- Ability to manage and coordinate a patient caseload.
- Work within a collaborative agreement/protocols with a physician and health care team.
- Demonstrate leadership ability to manage patients and interact effectively with peers and physicians.
Responsibilities
- Coordinates medical and surgical management of Thoracic surgery patients in the outpatient setting.
- Assisting Thoracic surgeons in the outpatient clinic to perform comprehensive history and physical exams, develop differential diagnoses, implement plan of care and document patient’s response to care.
- Conduct pre-operative history and physical exams, as well as obtain surgical consents.
- Provide direct patient care by evaluating patients awaiting kidney transplant, as well as post kidney transplant recipients, and kidney donors.
- Collect, order and interpret lab work and diagnostic studies under agreed upon protocols.
- Order and obtain prior authorizations for medications.
- Ensure physicians meet meaningful use metrics.
- Develop practice protocols, standard of care, and patient education material for Thoracic surgical patients.
- In conjunction with the research team, monitor and provide care to patients participating in research studies, as needed.
- In partnership with Quality, Research and Education group, help develop and manage detail clinical databases to evaluate and improve patient outcomes.
- Attend professional meetings and conferences, maintain professional affiliations and enhances professional development to stay current with trends in health care administration.
- Support other functions as assigned.