CV Surgery APP (PRN)

Ascension Saint Thomas is looking for an experienced (PRN) CV Surgery APP to join our elite team!

About Ascension Saint Thomas West Hospital

• With 541 licensed beds it provides adult specialty healthcare to the more than two million residents of Middle Tennessee, Southwestern Kentucky and Northern Alabama.
• Comprehensive stroke center
• The largest adult cardiac surgery and most comprehensive structural heart program in the region
• Saint Thomas Health and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) have an established partnership in Middle Tennessee for training medical residents in a variety of specialties including internal medicine, family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and general surgery.

About Nashville

• Known as the nation's health care capital
• Home to more than 1.9 million people and more than 40,000 businesses
• Nicknamed Music City USA, Nashville has the strongest concentration of the music industry in America.
• The area has plentiful parks and recreation, professional sports, great shopping and livable neighborhoods and suburbs.  
• Ranked Top U.S. City for Job Seekers in 2020 by MoneyGeek

About Ascension Medical Group
When you join Ascension Medical Group (AMG), you are entering a community where physician and advanced practice provider engagement and experience is recognized as a key driver of delivering excellent patient care.
 
With 1,900 sites of care and 7,000 providers strong, AMG is one of the largest healthcare provider networks in the United States. Physicians and advanced practice providers benefit from a collaborative approach to care, significant professional opportunities, career advancement, training and competitive wages.

Ascension Saint Thomas is looking for a PRN CV Surgery APP for our Ascension Saint Thomas Heart West Hospital.

Position Highlights:

• PRN schedule
• Mainly inpatient support with occasional opportunities for outpatient clinic coverage for vacations/PTO
• Cardiac/ICU or Cardiac Surgery experience highly preferred
• Hospital Inpatient experience with Cardiac is ideal

Job Roles/Responsibilities for Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery

• Manage inpatient hospital list for assigned physicians.Participate and collaborate in daily rounds with physician.
• Perform daily visits on patients, with physician collaboration, enter all orders for test,
  labs, medicines and procedures; dictate daily consult notes on in-house patients with
  physician collaboration.
• Assist physician with admissions and transfers from clinic, ER, and referring physician’s
  offices and hospitals.
• Obtain and dictate H & Ps and consult notes with physician collaboration.
• Coordinate complex discharge planning with case management and multidisciplinary
  team members. Including: arranging home IV antibiotics, home inotropic support, Life
  Vest, Home Health, Physical Therapy, Home Oxygen, and follow up labs.
• Facilitate discharge process including: prescriptions follow up appointments, teaching, &
  discharge summaries within 24 to 48 hours.
• Request consults and communicate plans from consultants.
• Schedule procedures and tests in-house and in the clinic environment.
• Follow up and manage daily plan of care including: assessing change in conditions,
  monitoring labs, review test results, and communicating updates to physician and
  multidisciplinary team members.
• General rounding advanced practitioner duties when physician is on call, as needed.
• Cover call with physician on call, every fifth weekend and weeknights until 7pm,
  Monday through Friday.
• Assist with clinic consultations and follow up appointments; enter orders for all labs,
  procedures, tests and dictate encounters in Athena, with physician collaboration

nursing processes in accordance with specific specialty area standards and network nursing policy

Licensure/Certification/Registration:
Required Credential(s):
• BLS Provider credentialed from the American Heart Association (AHA) obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
• Nurse Practitioner credentialed from the Tennessee Board of Nursing obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.
• Licensed Registered Nurse credentialed from the Tennessee Board of Nursing or current home statelicense for multi-state license recognition "Compact State" obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date.

Education:
• Master's degree of Nursing required.

Ascension will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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