JOIN OUR MUNSON HEALTHCARE PLASTIC SURGERY TEAM! Full-time | Monday - Friday | Call GENERAL SUMMARY: Munson Healthcare Plastic Surgery Clinic has an excellent opportunity for an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) to join their team in desirable Traverse City, Michigan. This position is supported by two physicians and two APPs. The ideal candidate is attracted to a busy practice, works well independently, and is a team player. The schedule is full time, Monday-Friday, with variable day time hours to accommodate operating room start and end times. Weekend hospital coverage and evening weeknight call are expected. Join a not-for-profit healthcare system and find the right balance between a rewarding career and living in a region that offers a rich blend of adventure, relaxation, and breathtaking natural attractions. BENEFITS: Munson Healthcare offers a comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health and work-life balance goals.
Competitive compensation and full benefits
401(k) matching
Continuing education credits
Malpractice insurance
Generous paid time off, holidays and flexible scheduling
Our employees receive special discounts on a wide range of products and services
Exceptional health, dental, vision and prescription drug insurance plan
Savings & retirement plans, disability insurance, identify theft protection and even home and auto insurance
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Ambulatory Setting
Performs comprehensive patient assessments in the ambulatory setting, including history and physical examinations, new surgery consultation, routine office follow up care, and post-operative care.
Orders diagnostic tests, develops plan of care, and interprets clinical test results.
Prescribes pharmacologic and other therapeutic treatment for the benefit of patient health.
Performs therapeutic procedures, as needed, including post-procedure wound care.
Inpatient
Admit patients to the hospital, perform daily rounds, write orders, daily progress notes, discharge summaries, etc.
Pre & post op education and teaching with patient and family.
Prescribe both pharmacologic agents (pre & post-op), and non-pharmacologic therapies (ie: PT, OT, NST, etc.).
Order/interpret diagnostic imaging and tests/labs.
Coordinate care provided by multiple specialists including surgeons, hospitalist providers, cardiology, urology, nursing staff, etc.
Diagnosis and comprehensive patient assessment and management.
OR 1st Assist
First assist surgeons in operating room daily with scheduled and add-on surgical cases.
Assist OR coordinators with correct case card selection/supply/equipment needs.
Assist OR circulating RN and surgical tech with appropriate supplies and equipment/flow of surgical cases to enhance efficiency.
Pre & post-op order placement/management.
STANDARD QUALIFICATIONS
Education / Training:
Master's Degree in Nursing OR a Masters in Physician Assistant studies
Work Experience :
Plastic Surgery experience preferred but not required
Certification, Licensure, Registration :
State of Michigan Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant license required .
ABOUT MUNSON HEALTHCARE
Munson Medical Center – the regional referral center for all of northern Michigan – has earned a national reputation for top quality care. The 442-bed hospital offers the only verified Level II Trauma Center and Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Michigan’s northern lower peninsula, nationally recognized cardiac care provided at the Webber Heart Center, advanced oncology services in the leading-edge Cowell Family Cancer Center, a Primary Stroke Center, heart and cancer research programs, a robust teaching hospital for residents, interns, medical students, and nursing students, and a stellar orthopedics program. Munson Medical Center has served Grand Traverse, Leelanau, and Antrim counties since 1915, with a long history and heritage of keeping patients at the center of all they do.
COMMUNITY
As a non-profit healthcare system, Munson Healthcare provides more than $60 million annually (https://www.munsonhealthcare.org/grayling-hospital/about-us/community-benefit-grayling) in:
Community Education
Free, discounted and unreimbursed healthcare services
Healthcare programs
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
Munson Healthcare grants equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, genetic information, marital status, height, weight, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected category.