Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Inpatient Cardiac Center
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Job Location:
Wilmington, DE - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Offering recently increased compensation $30000 Sign-on Bonus and Relocation Bonus!!
The Nemours Cardiac Center of the Childrens Hospital in Wilmington Delawareis looking for a qualifiedAcute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our Inpatient Cardiac Center!
The Nemours Cardiac Center (NCC) provides comprehensive care for infants children and adolescents with cardiac thoracic and vascular disease. The Cardiac Center provides patient care performs research educates and trains health care professionals in a variety of settings.
This individual will work collaboratively with physicians nurses and other health care providers dedicating his/her specialized practice to cardiac patients located in either the cardiac intensive care unit on our telemetry floor or in our post anesthesia cardiac unit (cardiac PACU). The APRN or PA will also be involved with cardiac babies delivered on site in our advanced delivery unit.
Our patient population ranges from newborns to young adults with congenital or acquired heart disease. Our surgeons perform all of the complex cardiac repairs including definitive neonatal surgery adult congenital surgery and heart transplantation. They utilize all forms of mechanical support (VADs ECMO ECLS) as an adjunct to our very active heart failure and pulmonary hypertension service.
This position will include working some night weekend and holiday shifts.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Obtain medical histories perform physical exams order and interpret laboratory data and prescribe management and medications on patients admitted to our inpatient service.
- Present patients on rounds write daily progress notes collate inpatient records and complete discharge summaries using the electronic medical record.
- Assist in the preoperative and postoperative care of surgical patients.
- Provide continuity of care when coordinating care with other members of the health care team.
- Attend and present departmental patient care conferences and participate in quality improvement initiatives.
- Interact with families of our patients embracing a family centered focus.
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What we Offer
- Recently increased compensation and generous sign on bonus!
- Extensive benefits package that includes quality-based bonus incentives relocation allowance life insurance comprehensive health dental and vision coverage
- CME and board maintenance allowances
- Retirement plan with employer matching and an additional 457B retirement savings plan
- Educational allowance paid licensure and malpractice fees and professional membership dues allowance
Qualifications
- APRN: Compact State RN license DE APRN License Delaware CSR Delaware DEA; Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certification; AHA BLS and ACLS Certification upon hire
- PA-C: Current:DE State Licensure Delaware CSR Delaware DEA National Certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants AHA BLS and ACLS certification upon hire
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Required Experience:
Junior IC
Key Skills
About Company
Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware an ... View more
