The Nurse Practitioner complements and assists the work of the attending faculty and surgical residents to provide integrative inpatient and outpatient care in the surgery services, which includes acute care, gastrointestinal, bariatric, colorectal, hepatopancreatobiliary, surgical oncology, breast, plastics, and endocrine surgery. The Nurse Practitioner serves as a high-level professional, whose activities will span the full range of adult inpatient care of surgical patients, taking responsibility for the safe delivery of care under the supervision of attending physicians and residents.Full assumption of these responsibilities will follow a training period, during which time the Nurse Practitioner will be monitored by a physician supervisor in order to determine that kn