Description
MedStar Health is seeking an experienced full-time Critical Care Advanced Practice Provider at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
MedStar Washington Hospital Center, located in the heart of our nation's capital, is seeking an experienced APP to work in one of our three ICU's. We are a teaching hospital with over 900 beds that is a major referral center in the area for medically complex cases. We are a Level I trauma center, a Comprehensive Stroke Center, in the top 5% of cardiac surgery programs in the country as well as an ECMO referral center.
In this role, critical care APP's work autonomously but collaboratively with intensive care physicians and a large multidisciplinary care team to provide high quality and cost-effective care to patients in critical condition. The CVICU APP will primarily care for patients in cardiac surgery, advanced heart failure including mechanical circulatory devices, vascular surgery and medical cardiac patients.
Essential Job Duties include:
Perform history and physical examination of patients.
Establish appropriate medical diagnoses based on patient history, chart review, physical exam, lab testing, and radiographic imaging
Initiate and manage appropriate therapeutic interventions for various pathologies including respiratory failure, heart failure, shock, and acid-base disturbances & renal failure
Present patients on daily rounds with the ICU attending and multidisciplinary team
Collaborate with all involved care teams including other consultants
Perform bedside procedures including insertion of central venous, non-tunneled dialysis, and arterial catheters, chest tubes, and thoracentesis.
Communicate between healthcare professionals to promote safe patient transition between shifts, services, and/or levels of care.
Educate and supervise new graduate APPs and students where appropriate
Departmental opportunities include participation in the following:
Weekly didactics
Monthly journal club
APP practice committee
Critical care morbidity & mortality
Various process improvement projects
Protocol writing and revisions
Requirements:
Graduation from an accredited physician assistant or acute care nurse practitioner program
NCCPA (physician assistant) or AGACNP (nurse practitioner) certified
BLS and ACLS certifications
Required: 1 or more years as an advanced practice provider in intensive care.
Benefits:
Competitive salary, retirement contribution matching, generous paid time off allotment, CME/licensing/credentialing reimbursement
For immediate consideration, please send CV to dawn.m.skupin@medstar.net
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This position has a hiring range of $117,000 - $180,000.
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