Amergis APP is seeking a Nurse Practitioner Pediatrics CVICU for a locum tenens job in San Francisco, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Pediatrics CVICU
- Discipline: Nurse Practitioner
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days, evenings, nights
- Employment Type: Locum Tenens
Types of cases/procedures Patient population/age: Majority peds, neonatal(8 beds), 8% of total population is adult congenital
• Department description:
• 350 surgical cases/year
• Majority of patients are surgical
• Patients include: a significant heart failure population, patients on vents, patients who are pre & post op, patients with cardiac catheterization, many patients on ECMO, many pre-post op transplant patients Experience with ECMO preferred APPs may do IVs & arterial lines, could intubate or central lines
• Most procedures done by fellow or attending
• Skills required:
• Must be comfortable in PCICU inpatient setting, working with neonatals all the way up to adult populations. Must have knowledge of general cardiovascular critical care, particularly peds, exp managing ECMO/CRRT/Bags.
• Team player, flexible, willing to work nights and weekends, good communication Practice Setting:
• Inpatient
• Hospital Requirements:
• Board Certification: CPNP-AC;
• License required: CA
• NP MUST have CA license
• PA can submit without a CA license
• DEA: Yes, CA with schedule 2
• Certifications required: PALS, BLS
• Minimum experience required:
• 1 years of PCICU(no surgery, no stepdown, must be experienced with pediatric cardiovascular critical care)
• Exp with heart failure would be a plus, although not required Patient Volume Admissions per day: patient load can range from 10-20 patients daily with length of stay 1-2 days Types of cases: pre and post cardiac intervention (Diagnostic Cath and PCI). EMR system Epic Number of Physicians/Support Staff in Department
• Support staff: 2 teams, each with: 1 attending, 3 NP, 1 fellow
• Overnight there's 1 attending, 2 NPs