Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - CVICU - Louisville, Kentucky

BHS•Louisville, KY

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Summary .9 FTE APRN-CVICU dept. Inpatient only Weekends only: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12 hour shifts to include evenings Job Description: Position Details Baptist Health Medical Group is expanding the Critical Care Cardiovascular Intensivist program! The Cardiac and Aortic Surgery Program at Baptist Health Louisville is a regionally recognized and thriving surgical service. The dedicated CVICU team is made up of Critical Care Physicians and Nurse Practitioners who work closely together to provide comprehensive care for the CVICU, performing annually over 650 cardiac and thoracic aortic cases, serving the Louisville metropolitan area and Kentuckiana region. Baptist Health Louisville is a tertiary 613 bed hospital that has 3 other ICUs, 2 large surgical recovery rooms and 25 operating rooms. The new state of the art ICU is designed to support the growing demand of cardiac surgical, structural and temporary circulatory support cases. The unit will have 13 beds (including 5 flexible open heart recovery beds) in proximity with the 3 CV operating rooms, the 5 cath labs and the 2 CV transitional units. The job delineation for a night shift NP includes the management of cardiac surgical cases from early care till transition to step down CV units, structural heart patients requiring short term care, complex surgical patients requiring longer stays and few ECMO, Impella or complex structural cases. On night shift, you will manage the CVICU patients as well as Step-down patients for the CV Surgery Service. Procedures you may be required to perform include arterial lines, central lines, dialysis catheter placement and intubations. The schedule will be variable and depend on candidate preference as well as total number of APCs in the role. About Baptist Cardiac surgery: Baptist cardiac surgery is the largest cardiac surgery group in Kentucky and southern Indiana region. The group performs over 1000 cases in 2 Baptist hospitals and is the only group in the area ranked with 3-star STS surgical recognition in more than 2 categories. It includes 3 cardiac and thoracic aorta surgeons performing all aspects of cardiac surgery except VADS and transplants. They are known for performing the full array of cardiac surgery including all aspects of coronary revascularization, mitral valve repair, complex valve surgery and reoperation, aortic reconstructions and homografts, Ross procedures, pulmonary thromboendarterectomies, aortic thoracic open and endovascular procedures and arrythmia surgery Address: 4000 Kresge Way Louisville KY 40207 Inpatient Weekend Nights only - Friday, Saturday, Sunday 7p-7a ICU Experience preferred The Baptist Health Medical Group (BHMG) APC reflects the mission, vision, and values of BHMG adheres to the organization’s Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards. The APC functions autonomously and collaborates with other health professionals to provide high quality, cost effective care to patients, manages health care systems and influence health care decision-making through expert clinical reasoning, research, theory-based practice. The APC is responsible for providing direct patient care as part of the physician led team in accordance with State Law and approved Medical Staff privileges.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and successful completion of accredited APC program.
National certification from the appropriate national certifying agency for the particular APC. Must maintain national certification.
Eligible at all times to be insured for professional liability.
Current valid and unrestricted license to practice as an APC in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
BCLS required through the American Heart Association.
ACLS as required for position
Acute Care Certification required