SHSMD Career Center
Durham, North Carolina
New York, New York
Posted: 14-Mar-23
Location: Orlando, Florida
Salary: Unpaid
Categories:
Internal Number: 23000764
Description
All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:
- Benefits from Day One
- Paid Days Off from Day One
- Career Development
Our promise to you: Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. Itâ™s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.
Schedule: Full-Time
Shift: Days/Evenings
Location: 601 EAST ROLLINS STREET, ORLANDO 32803
The community youâ™ll be caring for: AdventHealth Orlando
- Located on a lush sub-tropical campus, our flagship hospital, 1,368-bed AdventHealth Orlando
- Serves as the major tertiary facility for much of the Southeast, the Caribbean and South America
- AdventHealth Orlando houses one of the largest Emergency Departments and largest cardiac catheterization labs in the country
- We are already one of the busiest hospitals in the nation, providing service excellence to more than 32,000 inpatients and 125,000 outpatients each year
The role youâ™ll contribute:
The Physician Assistant (PA) will have prescriptive authority in the State of Florida under a practice agreement with a supervising physician as defined by Florida Statute 59R-30.001. The PA supports the clinical operation of AdventHealth Transplant Center with primary focus on clinical services in the inpatient and outpatient setting within their scope of practice as regulated by Florida Statute 458 and 459. The PA may provide first or second assistant functions during surgery, round with surgeons and other clinical staff, and see patients in the outpatient setting. Delivery of patient care will be conducted in collaboration with faculty surgeons, residents and physicians including, but not limited to, physical exams, diagnosis and treatment, order and interpret tests, counsel on preventative health, write prescriptions, and assist in surgery.
Actively participates in outstanding customer service and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful to all. Under administrative guidance and physician supervision, will provide comprehensive primary care services, acute care services, and extended care services in the area of nursing and or medicine for individuals and their families.
The value youâ™ll bring to the team:
- Cardiothoracic anatomic and patho-physiologic knowledge
- Perform First/Second Surgical Assist duties within the OR setting
- Surgical 1st assistance training & Proficiency in cardiac surgery including CABG, Valve, Aortic, VAD, ECMO, Transplant
- Conduit Arterial harvesting open/endoscopic
- Surgical site opening including sternotomy, femoral & axillary cutdown
- Surgical site closure including sternal wire/cable/complex plating closure
- Invasive bedside cardiothoracic surgical procedural skills
- Central Venous Line Access, Arterial line placement, PA catheter placement, Open/Percutaneous tube thoracostomy, Intra-Aortic balloon pump placement
- VV/VA ECMO Cannulation, Reconfiguration, discontinuation
- · Post-operative patient ICU and floor management
- Call requirements will be rotational to include a 24-hour/7-day coverage system. Out-Of-House SICU & Floor call responsibilities, Donor call organ assessment & OR call responsibilitie
- Attends and participates in transplant team meetings including Patient Review Committee, hospital interdisciplinary rounds, and discharge planning
and QAPI.Communicates with the transplant team in a professional and effective manner. Participation in database & clinical research
The expertise and experiences youâ™ll need to succeed:
Minimum Qualifications:
- State of Florida physician assistance license
- National Commission Certification of Physician Assistant (NCCPA) Certification
- Health Care Provider BLS(CPR)
- ACLS
- Graduate of a physician assistant program approved by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA)
- Minimum of two years post-graduation clinical experience or one-year post-graduate surgical residency training experience
- Minimum of one year of cardiothoracic specialty specific experience
- Pre-Operative, Intra-Operative, Post-operative Surgical patient care experience
- Critical care experience
- Cardiothoracic anatomic and patho-physiologic knowledge
- Cardiothoracic & critical care clinical management knowledge, with sound clinical judgement, decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Ability to self-direct and work without direct supervision
- Conduit Vein/Artery harvesting open/endoscopic
- Surgical 1st assistance training & Proficiency
- Bedside cardiothoracic surgical procedural skills
- Central Venous Line Access, Arterial line placement, PA catheter placement, Open tube thoracostomy
Preferred Qualifications:
· Cardiothoracic Surgery Certificate of Added Qualification (CTS CAQ)
· Fellow of the Association of Physician Assistants in Cardiovascular Surgery (FAPACVS)
· Cardiac Surgical Unit Advanced Life Support Certification (CSU ALS)
· Certified Clinical Transplant Coordinator (CCTC) by the American Board of Transplant Certification (ABTC)
· Invasive bedside procedures
· Robotic surgical training
This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.
