Locum - Nurse Practitioner - Surgery - Cardiothoracic - Make $130/hour in Tacoma, WA
Up to $130.00 • hourly
ATC West Healthcare Services
Job Description
Summary: St. Joseph Medical Center is looking for 2 Cardiothoracic Surgery APP to start ASAP pending credentialing!
Schedule/Availability Requirements:
M-F 3-4 days calls & a 1:4 weekend call. Hours are variable, but in general. M-F Schedule is mostly 0700-1500, but it is not shift work, some days may go beyond.
If the Provider is on call the hours for that day would likely be 10-12+ hours. Weekend call shifts are variable depending on patient census, but generally 6--8+ hours per weekend day. Call days include carrying a pager for 24 hours.
Facility Location: Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Cardiothoracic Surgery Saint Joseph Medical Center
Setting: Inpatient
FTE: 1.0
General Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist with pre and post operative patient evaluation and treatment
- OR First assist
- Coronary artery bypass and all valve surgeries
- Aortic reconstruction and aortic arch reconstruction
- Robotic assisted thoracic surgeries
- Endoscopic vein harvest
- Open radial artery harvest
- Minimally invasive valves
- VATS and DaVinci Robot Thoracic Procedures
- Thoracic and fore-gut procedures
- ICU & Step-down management
- Emergent procedures on the floor as required. (Chest tube insertions, arterial line insertions etc.)
- Daily rounds
- Discharge summaries
- Call every 6th night and every 6th weekend
- Pre-and post-op patients, inpatients and outpatients
- Evening, night and weekend surgeries
- Weekend patient rounds
- Walk-in/urgent clinic visits when primary surgeon is not available
- Clinic wound checks as needed
- 5 perm surgeons on staff (3 cardiac, 2 thoracic)
- 4 mid levels (3 PA, 1 NP and 1 in training)
Cases- 6-8 hearts/week, 9-12 thoracic/week
Not willing to train Locum, if they have limited thoracic exp. we can keep them in the heart room or on the floor. ONLY willing to train locum looking to transition to perm.
EMR: EPIC
Support Staff: RN
Reason for Coverage: Staff retirement
Dealbreakers: Robotic assisted thoracic surgeries (90% of thoracic cases are robotics)
Credentialing Information:
Timeframe: 90 days
Requirements: Credentialing application to be completed and returned within 10 days of credentialing kick-off.
Credentialing with other facilities? No
Admissions per day, Patients/day, Types of cases, Disclosures that may need to be made, etc.
- 20 patients per day (Adult)
Submission Requirements
- Board Certification – [Required]
- State License – WA [Highly preferred] will consider IMLC
- Residency Requirements/Fellowship – 3 years of CV/CT surgery experience [Required]
- Other Certifications – ACLS, BLS, DEA [Required]
- Malpractice – Clean [Required]
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