Nurse Practitioner (APRN) or Physician Assistant / Physical Medicine Rehab

Company: Hartford HealthCare Medical Group
Location: East Hartford
Posted on: May 2, 2025

Job Description:

Work where every moment matters.


Every day, over 30,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to become part of Connecticut's most comprehensive healthcare network.

Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is one of the largest medical practices in New England with multiple locations throughout Connecticut and Rhode Island. We consist of a team of professionals ranging from Medical Assistants to Physician Assistants and everything in between. Our physician led medical group enjoys an excellent reputation with patients and the medical community, offering primary care, urgent care and more than 30 different specialties.

Interventional Pain/PM&R Nurse Practitioner (APRN) or Physician Assistant Responsibilities:

• Provide acute and chronic pain specialty care with the cognizance or supervision of a physician. These include musculoskeletal, orthopedic, and spine diagnoses and their appropriate management.
• Provide immediate evaluation and management of emergent problems as they occur.
• Collect and record, in proper format, medical and social historical data appropriate to the patient's condition. Perform an orthopedic/spine physical examination and/or a pain focused examination.
• Outpatient clinic duties to include seeing postoperative patients, follow up appointments, and new patient referrals.
• Responsible for examination of patients and formulation of differential diagnostic plans. Define and order required diagnostic testing including imaging. Interpret exam findings and test results, and implementation of treatment plans.
• Direct the care provided by nurses and technicians in the clinic.
• Recognize more complicated cases, initiate treatment (if appropriate), and refer to a higher level of medical expertise for diagnosis and/or treatment. Plan and initiate proper treatment within defined privileges and the scope of practice of the facility.
• Communicate to other health personnel either orally or in writing the findings, diagnosis, and planned treatment regimen as well as answer any questions from the team and/or patients. Stabilize and manage a patient in a medical or surgical emergency and/or transfer to physician care. Maintain inpatient and outpatient medical records.
• Perform clinic injections and other invasive procedures as directed by the supervising physician. Serve as a subspecialist consultant to other departments. Qualifications
  
  --- Licensed as Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner (APRN) or Physician Assistant.
  
  --- Certified BLS Provider credentialed from the American Heart Association (AHA) obtained within 2 Months (60 days) of hire date or job transfer date.
  
  --- Certified BLS Provider credentialed from the American Red Cross obtained within 2 Months (60 days) of hire date or job transfer date.
  
  --- 2 years' experience preferred, including Pain Management, Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, or Emergency Medicine.
  
  We take great care of careers.
  
  With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge - helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance. Every moment matters. And this is your moment.
  
  

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