Newborn Hospitalist - Per Diem - Hartford, CT

About the role

Connecticut Children’s, a nationally recognized, 187-bed not-for-profit children’s hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, is seeking an Academic General Pediatrician to provide inpatient newborn care at its partner birthing hospital.

Responsibilities

• Treat and evaluate term and premature newborns ( >/=35 weeks) during the initial birth hospitalization and promote the health of the child and family.
• Primary areas of care to include the Newborn nursery, Low Risk Delivery Room stabilization within Connecticut Children’s partner hospital.
• Respond to and/or supervise UCONN/CCMC residents and advanced practitioners in managing low risk newborn stabilizations in the Delivery Room as well as normal newborn and transitional care in the Well-Baby Nursery environment.
• Care for transition babies requiring short term management with supplemental O2, dextrose fluids or antibiotics.
• Analyze medical histories, diagnostic lab test and x-ray results and perform physical examinations.
• Perform and maintain competence in required procedures for each site of care as assigned; this may include neonatal resuscitation, circumcision, venipuncture, IV placement. Arterial blood draw.
• Make appropriate patient referrals and monitor outcomes.
• Career coordination with team members, other departments and community agencies and providers as necessary.
• Partner with neonatology team to transfer care of infants requiring critical or intensive care in the NICU environment.
• Practice preventive health care through patient and family education and child health advocacy.
• Participate in teaching and learning in an integrated academic model. Precepting of medical students and residents: performing teaching rounds and didactic teaching.
• Participate in special programs and services as assigned.

Qualifications

• BC/BE MD or DO pediatrician having completed accredited pediatric residency.
• New graduate will be considered on an individual basis.
• Bilingual and bicultural in English and Spanish a plus.
• Eligibility for CT medical license and CT Children’s and partner hospitals credentialing process.
• NRP provider certification to be maintained.
• Specialty licensure/certification may be required, as specified by department.