Advanced Practice Provider (APP) / (PA/NP), Department of Surgery, Division of GITES, Instructor

Job Summary

The Division of GI, Tumor and Endocrine Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Colorado, School of Medicine, has a full-time faculty position available at the rank of Instructor for a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA). Under the direction of the full-time faculty or designee, this position provides inpatient and outpatient medical care services at the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH).

Key Responsibilities

• The candidate will be expected to provide independent clinical services as an Advanced Practice Provider for the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (TACS) service at Anschutz Medical Campus. These duties will include both an inpatient rounding and consultative role. The Inpatient responsibilities include rounding, writing orders, independent imaging/laboratory review, patient assessment, patient education, care coordination, disease management, and discharge activities.
• The consult duties will include participating in trauma bay resuscitations, seeing emergency general surgery & trauma consults, admitting patients, collaborating with consultants, preforming bedside procedures and assisting in the operating room if needed.
• There are additional outpatient responsibilities that may be necessary for cross coverage of our service including clinic care, triage of phone calls, emails or faxes, post-op care, follow-up on home care requests, management of referrals and follow-up on diagnostic lab and radiology tests.
• Close collaboration with general surgeons, sub-specialty surgeons, emergency medicine physicians, intensivists and hospital staff will be necessary. One key feature of this position is the need to work in close collaboration with surgical residents. Professional interaction with referring physicians and staff, emergency medical personnel and multidisciplinary providers is essential.
• The candidate will provide care to patients in the on the inpatient wards, the intensive care unit, acute care areas, and occasionally in the outpatient clinics.
• Given the rotating nature of the resident assignments to services, the NP/PA will be a critical part of service continuity and also a link between the inpatient and outpatient environments for patients.
• The census and acuity of clinical practice varies from service to service and NP/PAs may at times be asked to provide cross coverage clinical care on different services to deal with this issue.