Physician Assistant - Cardiothoracic Critical Care

Physician Assistant – Cardiothoracic Critical Care Seeking a highly skilled, experienced APP to join our growing cardiothoracic critical care team. This is a 24/7 service therefore this position requires days, nights, weekends and occasional holidays in a rotation with the team. In this position you will be responsible for examining, diagnosing and treating patients with complex cardiac, respiratory, and thoracic diseases under the direction of the attending physician. Our APPs play an integral role in the multidisciplinary care team by coordinating discussion, communication, and implementation of care plans with various consulting physician services, nursing, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, nutritional support, and other ancillary teams. In addition to these skills, you will be expected to have obtained competency in common ICU procedures, including but not limited to endotracheal intubation, arterial blood gas collection, arterial catheter line placement, central venous catheter line placement, temporary dialysis catheter line placement, transvenous pacemaker line placement, and pulmonary artery catheter line placement. Our cardiothoracic critical care providers are also the rapid response team for the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab. Our APPs are expected to interpret and manage endotracheal tubes, tracheostomy tubes, ventilators, pacemakers, sedation (MAC and Deep), ABGs and VBGs as well as complex acid/base derangements, fluid balance goals with diuretics, hemodialysis, and CRRT, vasopressors and inotropes, XRAYS, and laboratory investigations. Knowledge of the following disease states and patient types is also expected: SHOCK - ALL TYPES SEPSIS RESPIRATORY FAILURE HEART FAILURE RENAL FAILURE ACUTE & CHRONIC HTN BRADYCARDIA TACHYCARDIA (SVT, AFIB, AFLUTTER) VT/VF ENCEPHALOPATHY DELIRIUM INSOMNIA CARE OF POSTOP CARDIAC SURGERY PATIENT (CABG, VALVE, THORACIC) CARE OF POSTOP HEART TRANSPLANT PATIENT CARE OF POSTOP LUNG TRANSPLANT PATIENT CARE OF POST CARDIAC ARREST PATIENT Qualifications Physician Assistant – Required Master’s Degree Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant educational program LIC-Physician Assistant - STATE_MI State of Michigan Upon Hire required CRT-Physician Asst Certified (PA-C) – NCCPA National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants Upon Hire required CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS) – AHA American Heart Association 90 Days required Or CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS) – ARC American Red Cross 90 Days required CRT-Pediatric Adv Life Support (PALS) – AHA American Heart Association 120 Days required CRT-Adv Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) – AHA American Heart Association 120 Days required Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan #J-18808-Ljbffr