Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant, Perioperative Anesthesia

Job Posting Description

The newly created Perioperative APRN team is expanding and adding additional APPs to our team.

The Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant in Perioperative Anesthesia will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with the perioperative and anesthesia teams to provide comprehensive care to patients preop/intraop/postoperatively in the main OR and other anesthetizing locations.
• Conducting patient/family interviews and documenting patient medical history, review of systems, physical exam in the preanesthetic evaluation.
• Communicating the necessity, preparation, nature, and anticipated effects of anesthesia to patients and families
• Offering expertise as consultant and educator to peri-operative nursing staff
• Participating in or leading the collection of data for anesthesia cancelations, criteria changes, and improvement processes
• Ordering, scheduling, and/or performing laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures such as urinalyses, pregnancy, blood tests, and x-rays
• Functions as a liaison between the anesthesia attending in charge, primary anesthesia, nursing team, and family to optimize patient care
• Prescribing and administering premedication prior to anesthesia
• Assisting the anesthesia team in procedural areas
• Future opportunities exist to become competent in Vascular Access and PICC line placement
• The role will include possibilities to work in a hybrid fashion and locations include Lexington, Waltham and Boston.

To qualify, you must have:

• A Master of Science in Nursing and certification as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician assistant.
• MA licensure as an Advanced Practice Nurse
• 5 years of nursing or Physician assistant experience in pediatrics (inpatient or outpatient) is preferred

*Sign-on bonus of $5,000.00 (who have not worked at BCH in the past 2 years.)