CT Surgery - Advanced Practitioner
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Location: Reading, PA 19606
Description:
Title: CT Surgery - Advanced Practitioner
Location: West Reading, PA
Job Type: FTE/Permanent
This position is a Surgical Position. We are looking for a NP or PA who does Consults and rounding, direct admissions, and discharges, First assisting in surgery, runs ICU at night when performing night call and covers floor coverage during the day. Serves as first assist to physicians while in the operating room and performs surgical functions. The APP will also assist surgeons with preoperative work, consults and communications with the patients, prescribe and order pre and post operative diagnostic studies, performs H&P's as well as possesses the advanced knowledge in hemodynamic management of ventilators, ventricular assist devices, the pharmacological effects of vasoactive cardiotonic drugs, and adult critical care in order to function at the highest level of autonomy within limits of advance practice licensure.
Position responsibilities:
This is a Surgical Position
Procedures expected to perform in the practice setting: Pacing Wire Removal, Chest Tube Removal, Wound VAC changes, Wound Care, direct admits to hospital, post op care.
The expected schedule: 3 13-hour days weekly, (2 days 7a-7:30p and 1 night, 7pm to 7:30a, 1 ) weekend about every three weeks
Post op cases, emergency patients and consults
Call is expected 1 weekend every 3 weeks
*All applicants must be certified, with an active Professional Pennsylvania license (PA or NP).
BLS and ACLS must be current.
Location: West Reading, PA
Job Type: FTE/Permanent
This position is a Surgical Position. We are looking for a NP or PA who does Consults and rounding, direct admissions, and discharges, First assisting in surgery, runs ICU at night when performing night call and covers floor coverage during the day. Serves as first assist to physicians while in the operating room and performs surgical functions. The APP will also assist surgeons with preoperative work, consults and communications with the patients, prescribe and order pre and post operative diagnostic studies, performs H&P's as well as possesses the advanced knowledge in hemodynamic management of ventilators, ventricular assist devices, the pharmacological effects of vasoactive cardiotonic drugs, and adult critical care in order to function at the highest level of autonomy within limits of advance practice licensure.
Position responsibilities:
This is a Surgical Position
Procedures expected to perform in the practice setting: Pacing Wire Removal, Chest Tube Removal, Wound VAC changes, Wound Care, direct admits to hospital, post op care.
The expected schedule: 3 13-hour days weekly, (2 days 7a-7:30p and 1 night, 7pm to 7:30a, 1 ) weekend about every three weeks
Post op cases, emergency patients and consults
Call is expected 1 weekend every 3 weeks
*All applicants must be certified, with an active Professional Pennsylvania license (PA or NP).
BLS and ACLS must be current.