PICU Nurse Practitioner
Aya Locums
Job Description
Specialty: PCICU Start Date: As soon as credentialed Contract Length: 6 mo, option to extend Shift Details: variable 12-hour shifts including weekends, days, nights, & holidays Must be able to provide 50% night or weekend coverage with availability Options for night and weekend call, although not guaranteed.
Work Details: • Support staff: 2 teams, each with: 1 attending, 3 NP, 1 fellow • Overnight there s 1 attending, 2 NPs • Amount of coverage needed per month: Minimum 4 12-hour shifts • Patients per day: 17-18 • 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
• EMR: epic • Hospital bed size: 18
• Special procedures: • APPs may do IVs & arterial lines, could intubate or central lines
• Most procedures done by fellow or attending
Practice Setting: • Inpatient • Hospital
Credentialing Timeframe: 60-90 days Interview Expectations (how many?): Probably 2 interviews, 1 with manager and 1 with Med Director
Internal view: Name clear process?: NO
Willing To License?: YES