Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (with RNFA) - Cardiac Surgery, Full-time, Days

Job Description

Northwestern Medicine has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner to work in our Cardiac Surgery department. This position is a mix of inpatient and outpatient (50/50 split).

Responsibilities

• Inpatient duties:
  • Collect laboratory data, vital signs, and any significant events on postop and preop patients.
  • Evaluate the patient and formulate a plan.
  • Round with the surgeon and review the plan in the morning.
  • Write all pre and postop notes.
  • Follow up on any events with the patients and round with the on-call surgeon at the end of the workday.
  • Answer urgent phone calls from cardiac catheterization labs at CDH, Delnor, and Kishwaukee hospitals and facilitate transfers or emergent OR requests.
  • Complete discharges on any patient ready to leave the hospital status post-surgery.
  • Evaluate and initiate work up for new inpatient consultations.
  • Admit patients from outside hospitals or directly from home for evaluation for cardiac surgery.
  • Answer service phone with questions/problems regarding inpatients and outpatients.
• Weekend rounding duties:
  • Same duties as inpatient rounds.
  • Complete discharges on any patient ready to leave the hospital.
• OR duties:
  • First assist with all open-heart cases.
  • Endoscopic Vein Harvesting on CABG patients.
  • Take rotating call for the OR during the week and on weekends for emergency cardiac surgery cases.
• Outpatient duties:
  • See postop patients in the outpatient clinic.
  • Refill medications and facilitate outpatient orders if needed.
  • Debride wounds if needed.
  • Schedule surgery for patients who have been seen in the office as new consults and are deemed surgical candidates.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree from an accredited school/college of nursing OR master's degree from an accredited Physician Assistant Program.
• Acute care certification required for APRNs (inpatient experience as an NP will be considered in lieu of acute care certification).
• Current license as a Registered Nurse in the State of Illinois. Current license as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse in the State of Illinois.
• Certification as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse by a national certifying body as approved by the Illinois Department of Regulation.
• Once licensed may apply for a controlled substance license and DEA number.
• Privileged and credentialed through the Northwestern Medicine Medical Staff Office (MSO).
• Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation – BLS, issued by the American Heart Association.