Orthopedic Surgery - General Job In Richmond, Virginia
Orthopaedic Advanced Practice Provider
Description
Specialization:
Orthopaedic Surgery
Job Summary:
Hospital based Orthopaedic service line is seeking an energetic and motivated APP to join a well-established and cohesive group for employment of Parham Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Virginia.Qualified Candidates:
- Primary role is first response to the ED when Orthopaedic consultation is requested, including any orthopaedic injury or illness.
- Performing history and physical examinations, hospital rounding, floor consultations, admissions and discharges.
- First assisting in the operating room, ordering and interpreting radiographic and laboratory data
- Joint aspiration/injection, reduction of fractures/dislocations, application of casts and splints
- Developing appropriate treatment plans in accordance with Virginia state law and established treatment protocols with the Orthopaedic surgeon
- Strong interpersonal skills are essential as well as basic computer competence
- Ideal candidate will have a minimum of two years’ experience of direct patient care as an Orthopaedic APP who enjoys autonomy while collaborating with Orthopaedic Surgeons, Hospitalists, Emergency Room physicians, APPs and Nurses providing world class care to patients and their families.
- Must be board-certified
- Virginia licensure or ability to obtain
- 200-bed acute care community hospital
- 24/7 adult and dedicated ER
- Bariatric & Metabolic Care Center
- Inpatient & Outpatient Rehabilitation Care
- Orthopedic & Spine Care
- Behavioral Center – Adult Partial Hospitalization Program
- 11 Licensed Operating Rooms – full range of surgical services – minimally invasive program
- Cardiovascular Services
- Sarah Cannon Cancer Center – Oncology Nurse Navigators
- National Clinical Trials
Richmond is a wonderful place to practice medicine and raise a family. With a metropolitan area population of over a million, Richmond offers a great balance of big city excitement and small town charm. The area abounds with parks, nationally recognized school systems, and innumerable recreation and cultural activities. Richmond is within a two-hour drive of the Atlantic Ocean, Washington, DC and the Blue Ridge Mountains. The cost of living is very reasonable; traffic congestion is minimal.
Richmond, the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, has a metropolitan population of approximately 1.2 million people. Richmond is a city deep in history with terrific neighborhoods, museums and festivals year round. The city also boasts the first state-supported art museum in the United States and the Southeast's largest museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. With easy access to Interstates 95 and 64, Washington, DC, Virginia's beaches and the Blue Ridge Mountains are all less than two hours away. In Richmond, you will find a wealth of small-town charm and big-city amenities woven into a landscape catering to all walks of life. The area enjoys four distinct seasons, including one of the most remarkable displays of fall foliage along the Eastern seaboard.
The Parham Campus, located in Richmond's West End on Parham Road near Broad Street, is a 200-bed acute care hospital also acredited by the joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO). HDH-Parham provides excellence in emergency and traditional acute care hospital services, as well as advanced care in orthopedics, physcial rehabilitation, oncology, minimally invasive surgery, and diagnostic imaging. Among the many specialty programs available are a 36-bed inpatient physical rehabilitation unit (treating patients recovering from orthopedic procedures, stroke, cardiac or neurological complications and amputation); a Sleep Center (providing diagnostic and therapeutic sleep studies to patients in a private and comfortable setting) and an accredited Cancer Care Program.