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

Job Summary

The Division of GI, Trauma, and Endocrine Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Colorado School of Medicine has a part-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 outpatient medical care services at the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH).

Key Responsibilities

• Obtaining a thorough history, performing an appropriate physical examination, ordering appropriate testing and managing post-operative complications.
• Assisting in the hydroroom with patient pain and sedation management and photo documentation of wounds daily.
• Monitoring overall care and providing education about the risks and benefits of the surgical procedures.
• Working with all residents and providing resident orientation.
• Seeing and evaluating patients in the hospital as well as the clinic, providing documentation, an assessment and care plan for inpatient stay and all discharge care planning.
• Participation in research activities of the clinic and the inpatient unit.