Experienced Orthopedic PA (Hand) - Union

Job description

If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. We invite Advanced Practice Providers to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and visionaries together in our Orthopedic and Musculoskeletal team at Atrium Health in Charlotte, NC. Essential Functions: - Assist in the management of hand surgery as-well-as general orthopedic injuries/conditions - Participate in the initial evaluation & treatment of in-patient orthopedic consults: obtaining history, performing physical exams, ordering and reviewing appropriate diagnostic studies and imaging, and conferring with supervising orthopedic surgeon - Perform splinting, bracing, casting, orthopedic injections/aspirations, and local wound care in the in-patient and out-patient settings - Assist in the OR as needed for elective and urgent/emergent cases - Assist the supervising physician in clinic - Manage and direct patient post-operative care in the hospital and clinical setting - Participate in the rotating APP orthopedic practice call and ED call schedule - Assist in facilitating the discharg...