Cardiac Surgery Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
Cardiac Surgery Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
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10-04-2025
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When you join the growing BILH team youre not just taking a job youre making a difference in peoples lives.
Job Summary: Participates in all aspects of pre and postoperative care of the cardiac surgical patient. This position will interface with various medical staff attending in providing care/coverage of the patients.Job Description:
Essential Responsibilities:- Performs and documents preoperative evaluation (history and physical examinations). Orders and interprets diagnostic tests.
- Examines and evaluates pre and postoperative patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Writes orders for medications and treatments. Performs invasive procedures such as: placement of arterial and central venous lines insertion of chest tubes intubations of patients removal of intraaortic balloon pump catheters.
- Collaborates with staff surgeon and house staff in educating the patients and their families in medical care. Works with staff in providing patient care in the following locations: the intensive care units (CCU CVICU MICU) Cardiac Surgery Stepdown Units PCU Cardiology Units and staff cardiac surgeons clinical practice area.
- Inserts and removes of chest tubes (thoracostomy) central line placements arterial lines and Swan ganz floats. Troubleshoots intraaortic balloon pump catheters. Removes intraaortic balloon pump catheters and temporary pacing wires. Initiates blood products for hemodynamically unstable patients.
- Masters degree required.
- License Nurse Practitioner License required. or Registration Physician Assistant License required. and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required. and Certificate 2 Advanced Cardiac Life Support required.
- 35 years related work experience required.
- NP/PA licensed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- Three to five years experience as a NP/PA with part of that time dealing with highly acute patients on a surgical service.
- American Heart Association BLS/ACLS
- Basic familiarity with computers. Ability to navigate at a basic level within webbased applications.
- Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
- Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied complex and often nonrecurring requiring staff input innovative creative and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.
- Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
- Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
- Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff patients families and external customers.
- Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate indepth knowledge of concepts practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations.
- Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.
- Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner.
Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Young adult: 1630 years Middle Age: 30 60 years Elderly: 60 .
Physical Nature of the Job:
Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently to move objects. Some elements of the job are sedentary but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move through out the hospital campus
As a health care organization we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement.
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