LOCUMS NP/PA Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Needed in Greenville, NC

ECU Health Physicians and The East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU Health Medical Center, located in Greenville, North Carolina, are seeking Physician Assistants and Acute Care Nurse Practitioners to provide locums coverage in their Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.  Locums’ provider should have at least 2 years of ICU experience. Cardiac ICU experience is preferred.

Coverage needed for the next 1-2 months post credentialing completion.

Schedule

• Coverage needed includes (14) 12-hour shifts every 28 days
• Primary need is for nighttime coverage-7pm to 7am
• Options include 3–4 night shifts per week or 7 nights per week depending on locums preference
• Opportunity exists to work weekend day shift 7 am to 7pm

Job Highlights and Clinical Responsibilities

•  24-bed state of the art ICU
• Established team with high quality academic intensivists.
• Ability to perform procedures including:
• Arterial Lines
• Central Venous Lines
• Intubation
• Ventilator Management
• Perform comprehensive patient assessments and diagnoses.
• Develop treatment plans and order diagnostic tests.
• Prescribe medications and therapies in line with scope of practice – provider must have a DEA license.
• Collaborate with healthcare teams.
• Provide patient education and follow-up care

The East Carolina Heart Institute ranks amongst the top cardiac facilities in the country. The six-story, 375,000-square-foot tower houses clinical space, diagnostic services, and cardiovascular operating rooms. It has 120 beds for patients undergoing procedures for cardiac medicine, cardiac surgery, and vascular surgery.

For more information, please contact Joyce Best at (252) 847-6044 or Joyce.Best@ecuhealth.org.

For more information, please contact Cassandra Bryant at (252) 847-6756 or Cassandra.Bryant@ecuhealth.org

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research. www.ecuhealth.org

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.