Overview
MedStar Health is seeking an experienced full-time Critical Care CVICU 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 six 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 an ECMO referral center.
Responsibilities
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 heart and vascular units include, but are not limited to, patients in cardiac surgery, advanced heart failure including mechanical circulatory devices, vascular surgery and medical cardiac patients.
- 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 andmanage appropriate therapeutic interventions for various pathologies including respiratory failure, heart failure, shock, and acid-base disturbances and 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
- Weekly didactics
- Monthly journal club
- 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, cardiac surgery, or cardiology.
- Competitive salary, retirement contribution matching, generous paid time off allotment, CME/licensing/credentialing reimbursement
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This position has a hiring range between $117,000 - $180,000.
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