Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Cardiothoracic - Vein Harvest
Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Cardiothoracic - Vein Harvest
Job Description
Provide high quality health care to Kaiser Permanente members in a cost effective manner and in accordance with accepted professional practice standards.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Provide high-quality health care through active participation in pre-, intra-, and post-operative care for patients in CVT service via direct assessment and formulation/implementation of treatment plan under the guidance of the CVT team physicians. Performing complete pre-operative work-up on patients and performing H & P and patient pre-operative teaching; harvesting conduits and first- assisting in the OR; making rounds and removing lines/tubes/drains on post-operative patients in the ICU and telemetry units; assisting with discharge planning; assuming on-call responsibilities, and education. Document in writing all care in patients permanent medical record in accordance with accepted medical/legal standards. Provide all medical care in accordance with accepted practice standards, hospital/clinic protocols (including supervision by a physician), and State licensing guidelines.
- Coordinate, develop and organize patient or department services or programs. Examples include, but are not limited to: Develop written patient education materials. Provide in-service training. Proctor new employees, as requested. Participate on committees such as CV QI, Policy and Procedure, Point of care, transfusion, etc. As requested. Participate in capital purchase planning and implementation. Collaborative relationship with anesthesia, surgeons, nursing staff and perfusion. Fair share call. Collection of data for databases, quality on audits as needed. Performs other duties as requested.
Basic Qualifications: Experience
- N/A
- Graduate of ANA - approved NP or AMA - approved PA or equivalent requirements to meet State licensure.
- Nurse Practitioner License (Oregon) AND Nurse Practitioner National Certificate AND Registered Nurse License (Oregon)
- Physician Assistant License (Oregon) AND Physician Assistant National Certificate
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Basic Life Support
- Drug Enforcement Administration Registration
- National Provider Identifier required at hire
- Thorough and working knowledge of all common diseases in specialty field; familiarity with less common diseases.
- Working knowledge of State health care laws, licensing board regulations and controlled substance regulations.
- Important to know limitations and when to refer patients.
- Ability to assess, diagnose and effectively treat common thoracic and cardiovascular anomalies.
- Ability to use appropriate procedural/testing equipment, to see large volume of patients, and to interface with large provider and support staff.
- Ability to first assist and harvest vein/radial artery in the OR.
- Two (2) years of clinical experience including endoscopic vein/radial artery harvest.
- Minor surgery or surgical assist skills.
- Graduate of approved PA or NP program with licensure in Oregon.
Provide high quality health care to Kaiser Permanente members in a cost effective manner and in accordance with accepted professional practice standards.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Provide high-quality health care through active participation in pre-, intra-, and post-operative care for patients in CVT service via direct assessment and formulation/implementation of treatment plan under the guidance of the CVT team physicians. Performing complete pre-operative work-up on patients and performing H & P and patient pre-operative teaching; harvesting conduits and first- assisting in the OR; making rounds and removing lines/tubes/drains on post-operative patients in the ICU and telemetry units; assisting with discharge planning; assuming on-call responsibilities, and education. Document in writing all care in patients permanent medical record in accordance with accepted medical/legal standards. Provide all medical care in accordance with accepted practice standards, hospital/clinic protocols (including supervision by a physician), and State licensing guidelines.
- Coordinate, develop and organize patient or department services or programs. Examples include, but are not limited to: Develop written patient education materials. Provide in-service training. Proctor new employees, as requested. Participate on committees such as CV QI, Policy and Procedure, Point of care, transfusion, etc. As requested. Participate in capital purchase planning and implementation. Collaborative relationship with anesthesia, surgeons, nursing staff and perfusion. Fair share call. Collection of data for databases, quality on audits as needed. Performs other duties as requested.
Basic Qualifications: Experience
- N/A
- Graduate of ANA - approved NP or AMA - approved PA or equivalent requirements to meet State licensure.
- Nurse Practitioner License (Oregon) AND Nurse Practitioner National Certificate AND Registered Nurse License (Oregon)
- Physician Assistant License (Oregon) AND Physician Assistant National Certificate
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Basic Life Support
- Drug Enforcement Administration Registration
- National Provider Identifier required at hire
- Thorough and working knowledge of all common diseases in specialty field; familiarity with less common diseases.
- Working knowledge of State health care laws, licensing board regulations and controlled substance regulations.
- Important to know limitations and when to refer patients.
- Ability to assess, diagnose and effectively treat common thoracic and cardiovascular anomalies.
- Ability to use appropriate procedural/testing equipment, to see large volume of patients, and to interface with large provider and support staff.
- Ability to first assist and harvest vein/radial artery in the OR.
- Two (2) years of clinical experience including endoscopic vein/radial artery harvest.
- Minor surgery or surgical assist skills.
- Graduate of approved PA or NP program with licensure in Oregon.
About Kaiser Permanente
At Kaiser Permanente, we’re all focused on helping people and providing high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. Across our organization, we’re fiercely committed to our members, our mission, our communities, and each other. We know that each part of the Kaiser Permanente team is essential to our success. Together, we are more than 235,000 dedicated professionals working to advance Kaiser Permanente’s commitment to delivering a healthier tomorrow.
Driven by our collective passion at Kaiser Permanente, we strive to make health care more innovative and compassionate. With the wellness of our patients and our communities at heart, we work to revolutionize health and care from more than 650 locations in 8 states and D.C.
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