Pediatric CVICU- Full Time NP/PA

Advocate Health; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 81,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Health benefits (medical, dental, etc)

Flexible Spending Accounts

Adoption assistance

401(k) with match

Educational Assistance Program

Job summary

Advocate Health, Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, NC, seeks a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to work in the Cardiology Intensivists/ PICU. The role involves 32 hours per week with rotating days and nights (11.5h day shifts, 14h night shifts) and weekend/holiday requirements.

Independent practice in CVICU with a multidisciplinary team, DEA license, and BLS required. Prior APP experience preferred; prescriptive authority in NC/SC is necessary.

Qualifications

• Must be approved to practice as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in the state of North and South Carolina.
• Eligible for prescriptive authority application through the Board of Nursing or Medical Board in North and South Carolina.
• Must have or be eligible for a DEA license.
• BLS for Healthcare Provider from AHA required with expiration date greater than 90 days from date of beginning practice.
• 2+ years of experience as an APP in a relevant field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Functions independently to perform age-appropriate, disease-specific history and physical examination of complex acute, critical, and chronic advanced heart failure patients.
• Rounds daily with interdisciplinary team.
• Manages care and treatment plan as the front-line provider for patients.
• Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests, including laboratory and radiologic.
• Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities.
• Monitors the effectiveness of interventions.
• Documents all patient encounters in the EMR.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary team members.

Job description

Department:

04085 GCMG LC Cardiology Intensivists: 1001 Blythe - Pediatrics: Critical Care/Intensivist

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

32

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Rotating shifts, days - 11.5 hours dayshift and 14 hour night shift; weekends/holidays required

Pay Range:

$59.00 - $88.50

The APP will function independently in the inpatient hospitalincollaboration with a supervising physician and other members of a multidisciplinary teamforcardiac surgical and non-surgical patients in the CVICU.These patients include but are not limited to complex neonatal repairs, VAD,ECMOand transplant patients.

Essential Functions:

• Functions independently to perform age-appropriate,disease-specifichistory and physicalexamination ofcomplex acute, critical, and chronicadvanced heart failure patients.
• Rounds dailywith interdisciplinary team
• Manages careand treatment planas thefront-lineproviderforpatients
• Orders and interprets diagnostic and therapeutic tests,including laboratory and radiologic
• Prescribesappropriate pharmacologicand non-pharmacologic treatment modalities
• Monitors the effectiveness of interventions
• Documents all patient encounters, records observations, interventions, and actions in a medicallyappropriate mannerin the patient’s electronic medical record
• Collaborates with members of the multidisciplinary team including, but not limitedto:physicians, nurses, medical assistants, social workers, pharmacists,dieticians
• Performs chest tube removals, pacer wire removalsand pediatric ICU proceduresincludingchest tube insertion, central and arterial line access and intubations
• Attends,participates, and contributes to group/practice meetings,quality improvement, and policy and procedure development efforts whenrequested.
• Min Work standards-1880 hoursper year- shifts are varied with days, nights and weekends split amongst group excludingnocturnistAPPs.

Must be approved to practice as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in the state of North and South Carolina. Eligible for prescriptive authority application through the Board of Nursing or Medical Board in North and South Carolina. Must have or be eligible for a DEA license. BLS for Healthcare Provider from AHArequiredwithexpirationdate greater than90 daysfrom date of beginning practice. Demonstratesappropriate criticalthinking, interpersonal skills, and the ability to prioritize and concentrate. 2+ years of experience as an APP in a relevant field preferred.

Atrium Health Levine Children’s Congenital Heart Center, establishedin 2010, is currently ranked #7in the country for Best Children’s Hospital for Cardiology & Heart Surgery by U.S. News and World Report. Our comprehensive services include cardiac imaging, diagnostic and interventional catheterization, invasive electrophysiology, dedicated cardiovascular intensive care staff, and regional referral programs in heart failure/transplantation, adult congenital heart disease, and fetal echocardiography. Ourstate-of-the-arttwo lab cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology suite and new outpatient office complex is filled with dedicated staffing and is designed to treat all patients from fetal cardiology to ACHD. Our comprehensive Cardiac Neurodevelopment program provides a multitude of specialty services to our congenital heart patients in the same office suite. Participation in investigatorinitiatedand multi-center industry sponsored studies is ongoing within the Heart Center, with the support of an active clinical research department

Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH)isa state-of-the-artfacility in beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina. LCH has 11 floors and 258 inpatient beds, including on-site PICU and CVICU covered 24/7 by in-houseintensivists, Progressive Care Unit, Inpatient Observation Unit, Pediatric Rehab Unit, and Pediatric Emergency Department. We are committed to being the region’s leading provider of pediatric health care services.

Our Impact:

Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health have come together to do more, be better and go faster to help more people live well. Together, we will deliver the best health outcomes and make care more accessible and affordable for all.

Headquartered in Charlotte and powered by 150,000 talented teammates – including the best and brightest physicians, nurses,researchersand faculty – we are poised to improve safety and health outcomes, advance healthequityand accelerate medical breakthroughs, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine as our academic core.

Our CommitmenttoYou:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate’s job
• Incentive pay for select positions
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, andShort- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.

About Advocate Health

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.