• App (NP/PA) - Neurology/Stroke

    Beth Israel Lahey Health (Burlington, MA)


    **Job Type:** Regular

    **Time Type:** Full time

    **Work Shift:** Day (United States of America)

    **FLSA Status:** Exempt

     

    When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

    Job Description:

    Join our rapidly expanding Vascular Neurology service at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center! We're a certified Comprehensive Stroke Center committed to providing superb, multidisciplinary care in a collaborative environment. Quality and safety are our top priorities as we grow our stroke APP service.

    Details** **:

    + **Full time:** 40 hours/week

    + **Outpatient Training:** One-third of your time will involve training in outpatient settings, typically for general neurology, headache, and stroke follow-up visits.

    + Opportunity to train in outpatient procedures like lumbar punctures, Botox administration, and nerve blocks.

    + **Collaborative Team:** Work closely with Neuroradiology, Interventional Neuroradiology, Vascular Neurosurgery, and Vascular Surgery.

    + **Our Team Includes:** 6 stroke physicians, 5 neuro-intensivists, 12 stroke/neurocritical APPs, and 3 stroke RNs.

    + **Role:** Function as a primary stroke APP under the guidance of a stroke physician.

    + **Key Responsibilities:**

    + Admitting, rounding on, and discharging patients with ischemic stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, and other cerebrovascular disorders.

    + Initial evaluation.

    + Development and implementation of diagnostic and therapeutic plans.

    + Interpretation of laboratory, imaging, and physiologic data.

    + Discussion of patients with consultants.

    + Clinical documentation, including discharge planning.

    + **Growth Opportunities:** Research and teaching opportunities are available if desired.

    What We're Looking For** **:

    We need a dedicated professional committed to delivering outstanding patient care with excellent interpersonal skills. You should be able to function semi-autonomously in the care of challenging and ill patients, and have enthusiasm for teaching, learning, and quality improvement as we build our stroke program.

    Qualifications:

    + Master's degree from a Nursing or Physician Assistant program.

    + Current NP or PA certification and license to practice in Massachusetts.

    + DEA.

    + MCSR.

     

    _Beth Israel Lahey Health, including all of its employing entities, are a purpose-driven, values-based organization that unites our workforce of people who provide exceptional health care to everyone we serve._ _All of the employing entities of Beth Israel Lahey Health maintain policies of equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination in employment. Please see here for more information about our purpose and values (_ _https://bilh.org/about/purpose-values_ _) and here for more information about our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy (_ _https://bilh.org/careers/eeo-policy_ _)._

     

    As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more (https://www.bilh.org/newsroom/bilh-to-require-covid-19-influenza-vaccines-for-all-clinicians-staff-by-oct-31) about this requirement.

     

    More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

     

    Equal Opportunity** **Employer/Veterans/Disabled