NP or PA - Cardio & Thoracic Surgery

Start the day excited to make a difference...end the day knowing you did. Come join our team.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Clinical procedures
• apply and change surgical dressings
• remove sutures and staples
• perform venipunctures
• insert IV needles and catheters
• catheterize urinary bladder
• pass nasogastric tubes
• remove chest tubes and monitoring lines
• irrigate chest tubes and catheters
• debride, irrigate, and pack surgical wounds
• remove drainage catheters
• Obtain, record, and dictate medical histories.
• Perform, record and dictate physical examinations.
• Dictate discharge and transfer summaries.
• Make daily rounds, record progress notes, write routine orders (comfort and diet, laboratory tests, non-invasive examinations). Prepare patients for discharge from the hospital.
• Educate patients and family regarding disease, procedures, medications, nutrition, health care and post-discharge care.
• Act as liaison between patients and surgeons.
• Act as liaison between nursing and surgeons.
• Provide education to nursing staff as required.
• Request consults from appropriate physicians.
• Participate in the care and management of patients in the outpatient setting, seeing outpatients either independently of in conjunction with supervising physician.
• Handle phone calls from patients and home health nurses.
• Evaluate patients who require a surgical consult.
• Assist in the operating room
• General Thoracic Surgery Assist
• Prep, position and drape patient
• assist at surgery
• assist in minimally invasive procedures, including thoracoscopy and advanced foregut laparoscopy, open/VATS lobectomy, paraesophageal hernia and nissen fundoplasty
• close wounds and apply dressings
• transfer patient to post-anesthesia care
• Participate in the management of the thoracic surgery database (update patient records, run reports, harvest data for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons).
• Participate in clinical call coverage rotation with the practice's other midlevel providers.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Virginia Physician Assistant license and NCCPA certification required.
• AHA BLS Provider CPR required at hire
• Minimum of 2 years of experience providing surgical first assist support required.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience providing operative support to cardiac, vascular or thoracic service required.

As an EOE/AA employer, the organization will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and veteran or disability status.