APP - Virtual Critical Care - Nocturnist
APP - Virtual Critical Care - Nocturnist
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Job Description
Atrium Healths Virtual Critical Care Team is actively recruiting an experienced Critical Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant.
Description for Internal Candidates
If its possible you will find it at Atrium Healththe leading communityfocused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia. We invite Advance Practice Providers to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together in our Virtual Critical Care team at Atrium Health Charlotte NC.
Atrium Healths Virtual Critical Care Team is actively recruiting an experienced Critical Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant.
The APP will be expected to:
- Manage medical and surgical ICU patients and is encouraged to practice at the top of their license
- Obtain a medical history physical exam document findings and prepare a plan of care in a timely manner including ordering medications and appropriate tests/procedures
- Attend participate in and contribute to group/practice meetings development of policies and procedures and quality improvement initiatives
About the position:
- Unique job opportunity working telecritical care from home
- Nocturnist shifts
- Patient population includes adult general medical and surgical ICU patients
- Shifts are 9 hours in duration and include days evenings nights weekends and holidays
- Shifts are rotated equally among staff
- Employer paid benefits
- CME Allowance
- Salary guarantee with Performance Incentive
Candidate Qualifications:
- Acute Care Board Certified NP or PA actively working in critical care
- Minimum 2 years bedside experience in critical care as an Acute Care NP or PA
- Will require Georgia and North Carolina state licenses and DEA
- ACLS/BLS
About the program:
Current team consists of 30 APPs 60 physicians 42 critical care RNs 6 critical care respiratory therapists and 3 critical care pharmacists
Our virtual critical care program provides 24/7 coverage via a shiftbased model to 16 different facilities across North Carolinas and Georgia
Critical care services provided by using twoway audio video communication realtime bedside waveform monitors and integrated EMR for review of documentation labs vitals and diagnostics
When you join Atrium Health you will be welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. Practice where your voice is valued your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In our nationallyrenowned integrated health system you can work alongside the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine elevate hope and advance healingfor all.
Job Summary
Includes Neonatal critical care emergency services and includes cardiothoracic surgery. Patients are typically intubated on ventilators and/or have hemodynamic instability. The focus is on very invasive procedures and the hemodynamic management of very critical patients. Manages ventilator settings vasopressors and solve complex clinical cases. Schedule consisting of night shifts for 90 or more of the time.
Essential Functions
- Performs initial and periodic medical history physical examinations and daily assessments.
- Records findings of examinations assessments and plan of care.
- Performs a wide range of surgical and/or medical procedures.
- Writes appropriate prescriptions and administers medications.
- Orders and interprets laboratory and radiology examinations.
- Determines treatment plan for patient.
- Documents all patient encounters records observations interventions and actions in a medically appropriate manner on the patients medical record.
- Demonstrates appropriate critical thinking interpersonal skills and the ability to prioritize and concentrate.
- Acts as a patient advocate for the population served.
- Attends participates and contributes to group/practice meetings and development of policies and procedures when requested
Cardiothoracic Surgery Setting with less than 5 years CVTS experience - Manages STS Database data collection pre and postoperatively.
- Performs clinic duties one day a week with assigned physician.
- Provides weeknight Call on a Q3 or Q4 rotation; weekend Call responsibilities on a Q3 or Q4 rotation.
Physical Requirements
Work requires walking standing sitting lifting reaching bending stooping pushing and pulling. Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients medical equipment and supplies. Must speak English fluently and in understandable terms. Must possess intact sense of sight hearing smell touch and finger dexterity. Must have the ability to react and perform in stressful situations.
Education Experience and Certifications.
Must have or be eligible for a DEA license. Approved to practice as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in the state one works. Eligible for prescriptive authority application through the Board of Nursing or Medical Board in SC required. BLS for Healthcare Provider from AHA required with expiration date greater than 90 days from date of beginning practice. Demonstrates appropriate critical thinking interpersonal skills and the ability to prioritize and concentrate.
Nurse Practitioner
Masters Degree or Doctorate of Nursing Practice required. License to practice as a Registered Nurse required. Certification in the area of practice from a nationally recognized certifying body required. ACNP AGACNP PNPAC or NNP board certification preferred according to population served.
Physician Assistant
Graduate from an accredited Physician Assistant program required; Masters Degree preferred. Certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants preferred.
Employment Type
Full-Time
