Genetics Nurse Practitioner

Job Summary :

Leading Westchester Medical Genetics Practice seeks a Nurse Practitioner to manage patients (pediatric through adult) in the Lysosomal Storage Disease Program.

Summary :

WMCHealth Network is seeking a Nurse Practitioner for our Medical Genetics Department. This provider will provide a broad range service for Genetics patients and oversee treatments in the Outpatient Infusion Center as well as assist in daily operations and patient care. They will also be responsible for being the on-site primary provider for the Lysosomal Storage Disease Center.

Responsibilities :

• Evaluating patients in the practice,
• Coordinating patients' care
• Ordering appropriate tests and / or medications as needed
• May also include managing emergencies- both on site and via phone, telephone triage and supportive care.
• The provider will serve as a mentor, role model and resource person for the Medical Genetics staff.
• Assisting with policies and procedures, staff education, and participating on institutional committees.
• The Provider will also have in-patient hospital responsibilities (at WMC), which will include initial and follow-up evaluations of Genetics patients during hospitalization (in collaboration with the Hospitalist team), coordinating in-patient treatments, evaluations, and testing, as well as other activities as designated by the Medical Director.
• This is a fulltime, exempt position.

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About Us :

The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMC Health) is a 1,900-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMC Health employs more than12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region's only acute care children's hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, home care services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMC Health is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley.