Full Job Description
04085 GCMG LC Cardiology Intensivists: 1001 Blythe - Pediatrics: Critical Care/Intensivist
Status:
Full time
Benefits Eligible:
Yes
Hours Per Week:
32
Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Rotating shifts, days - 11.5 hours dayshift and 14 hour night shift; weekends/holidays required
Pay Range:
$59.00 - $88.50
The APP will function independently in the inpatient hospitalincollaboration with a supervising physician and other members of a multidisciplinary teamforcardiac surgical and non-surgical patients in the CVICU.These patients include but are not limited to complex neonatal repairs, VAD,ECMOand transplant patients.
Essential Functions:
- Functions independently to perform age-appropriate,disease-specifichistory and physicalexamination ofcomplex acute, critical, and chronicadvanced heart failure patients.
- Rounds dailywith interdisciplinary team
- Manages careand treatment planas thefront-lineproviderforpatients
- Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests,including laboratory and radiologic
- Prescribesappropriate pharmacologicand non-pharmacologic treatment modalities
- Monitors the effectiveness of interventions
- Documents all patient encounters, records observations, interventions, and actions in a medicallyappropriate mannerin the patients electronic medical record
- Collaborates with members of the multidisciplinary team including, but not limitedto: physicians, nurses, medical assistants, social workers, pharmacists,dieticians
- Performs chest tube removals, pacer wire removalsand pediatric ICU proceduresincludingchest tube insertion, central and arterial line access and intubations
- Attends,participates, and contributes to group/practice meetings,quality improvement, and policy and procedure development efforts whenrequested.
- Min Work standards-1880 hoursper year- shifts are varied with days, nights and weekends split amongst group excludingnocturnistAPPs.
Must be approved to practice as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in the state of North and South Carolina. Eligible for prescriptive authority application through the Board of Nursing or Medical Board in North and South Carolina. Must have or be eligible for a DEA license. BLS for Healthcare Provider from AHArequiredwithexpirationdate greater than90 daysfrom date of beginning practice. Demonstratesappropriate criticalthinking, interpersonal skills, and the ability to prioritize and concentrate.2+ years of experience as an APP in a relevant field preferred.
Atrium Health Levine Childrens Congenital Heart Center,establishedin 2010, is currently ranked #7in the country for Best Childrens Hospital for Cardiology & Heart Surgery by U.S. News and World Report. Our comprehensive services include cardiac imaging, diagnostic and interventional catheterization, invasive electrophysiology, dedicated cardiovascular intensive care staff, and regional referral programs in heart failure/transplantation, adult congenital heart disease, and fetal echocardiography. Ourstate-of-the-arttwo lab cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology suite and new outpatient office complex is filled with dedicated staffing and is designed to treat all patients from fetal cardiology to ACHD. Our comprehensive Cardiac Neurodevelopment program provides a multitude of specialty services to our congenital heart patients in the same office suite. Participation in investigatorinitiatedand multi-center industry sponsored studies is ongoing within the Heart Center, with the support of an active clinical research department
Levine Childrens Hospital (LCH)isa state-of-the-artfacility in beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina. LCH has 11 floors and 258 inpatient beds, including on-site PICU and CVICU covered 24/7 by in-houseintensivists, Progressive Care Unit, Inpatient Observation Unit, Pediatric Rehab Unit, and Pediatric Emergency Department. We are committed to being the regions leading provider of pediatric health care services.
