University of Maryland Medical Center is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to provide comprehensive care to patients presenting to our ambulatory orthopaedic practice sites.  *This position will require travel to the various ambulatory orthopaedic practice sites*

The NP/PA performs examination, evaluation, assessment and interpretation of clinical data to provide care to patients seeking treatment for bone fractures, degenerative joint diseases, and soft tissue injuries. Our Department of Orthopaedics serves as a referral center for patients in Maryland and beyond.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Independently take patient history and perform physical evaluation. 
• Order and evaluate appropriate diagnostic and laboratory tests (including, but not limited to X-ray, CT scan, MRI, and EMG) to help formulate a differential diagnosis and working diagnosis
• Within the scope of practice, and using shared-decision with patients, create and implement a treatment plan that may include prescription medication, durable medical equipment, injections, splinting and casting.
• Document H & P, progress notes, and treatment plans.
• Refer patients to supervising orthopaedic surgeon, and other health professionals as appropriate.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary quality and service improvement meetings

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

What You Need to Be Successful:

• Education/Training – Graduation from a Physician Assistant program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA). Bachelor's degree required OR a Master of Science degree, with completion of a Nurse Practitioner Program.
• Experience – Experience is preferred, but not necessary. New graduates are welcome to apply. 
• License/Certification – National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) certification. Current license with the Maryland Board of Physicians. OR Registered and currently recorded with the Maryland Board of Nursing, and certified as a Nurse Practitioner in the area of specialization 
• Must have CRNP - FNP, or PA-C license

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