General Surgery Physician Assistant

<h3>Your future role at a glance</h3><p style=" margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt"><span><span style=" font-style: normal; text-decoration: none"><strong>Location:</strong></span><span style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none">  Murfreesboro, TN</span></span></p> <p style=" margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt"><span><span style=" font-style: normal; text-decoration: none"><strong>Facility Name: </strong></span><span style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none">Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital</span></span></p> <p style=" margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt"><span><span style=" font-style: normal; text-decoration: none"><strong>Schedule: </strong></span><span style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none">Weekend mainly, PRN </span></span></p> <p style=" margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt"> </p> <p style=" margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt"><span><span style=" font-style: normal; text-decoration: none"><strong>Position Highlights</strong></span><span style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none"> </span></span></p> <h3>How you’ll make an impact in this role</h3><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working 8-9 hour Saturday and Sunday (on occasion helping fill in for vacations during the week)</span></span></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working with General Surgeon on call with hospital patients</span></span></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Manages assigned patients; performs new consults; Assessments during rounding</span></span></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prepare and execute discharge orders and notes</span></span></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Collaboration with other services and frequent interaction with hospitalist</span></span></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><strong>About the facility:</strong></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">407 beds, this regional referral center features a modern facility built in 2010 and a newly-renovated 16 operating room suite </span></span></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The hospital is centrally located in the fastest growing county in the state of Tennessee on a beautiful 68-acre campus on the bustling “Medical Center Parkway†corridor with convenient access to dining and shopping areas </span></span></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The hospital campus is currently undergoing a $110M expansion project, which includes the addition of 36 new high acuity beds, a parking garage dedicated to hospital employees and physicians, 18 new critical care unit beds, six additional NICU bassinets, 17 new post-surgery bays </span></span></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The hospital is well known in the community for its women's services and well-established heart surgery program </span></span></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saint Thomas Health and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) have an established partnership in Middle Tennessee for training medical residents in a variety of specialties including internal medicine, family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and general surgery </span></span></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><strong>Why Providers Choose Ascension</strong></span></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Physician-led, collaborative culture</span></span></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Long-term practice stability</span></span></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National network with local autonomy</span></span></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mission-centered care rooted in service</span></span></li></ul><h3>What minimum requirements you’ll need</h3><p style="margin: 0px;">Licensure / Certification / Registration:</p><ul><li>BLS Provider obtained within 1 Month (30 days) of hire date or job transfer date required. American Heart Association or American Red Cross accepted.</li><li>Physician Assistant credentialed from the Tennessee Committee on Physicians Assistants obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date required.</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;">Education:</p><ul><li>Graduate of accredited Physician Assistant program. Master's degree preferred.</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;">Work Experience:</p><ul><li>1 year of experience preferred.</li></ul> <h3>Benefits that help you thrive</h3><ul style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"> <li><b>Retirement:</b> 403(b) plan</li> <li><b>Well-being support:</b> Employee Assistance Program, counseling and peer support, spiritual care and stress management resources</li> </ul> <div> </div><h3>Life at Ascension: Where purpose meets opportunity </h3><p>Ascension is a leading nonprofit Catholic health system with a culture and associate experience grounded in service, growth, care and connection. We empower our 99,000+ associates to bring their skills and expertise every day to reimagining healthcare, together. Recognized as one of the Best 150+ Places to Work in Healthcare and a Military-Friendly Gold Employer, you'll find an inclusive and supportive environment where your contributions truly matter.</p> <p><b>Equal employment opportunity employer</b></p> <p>Ascension provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, lactation, breastfeeding, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, all as defined by applicable law, and any other legally protected status or characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. 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