Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Cardiac Cath​/EP Lab - Part Time on call

Position: Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Cardiac Cath/EP Lab - Part Time, Days, on call required
Job Description

NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk is a 306-bed medical center, providing care to residents of eastern Long Island. The hospital facility is home to the Knapp Cardiac Care Center-an advanced heart disease diagnostic and treatment facility-as well as a modern ambulatory surgical pavilion with specialized services including women's imaging, a sleep laboratory, and bariatric surgery. Our Provisional Level 2 Trauma Center delivers comprehensive and specialized care for patients with traumatic injuries.

The Stroke Center at NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk is designated by the New York State Department of Health as a Primary Stroke Center, with expert neurologists available to provide treatment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Additionally, NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk has multiple outpatient sites, including an outpatient wound care center, a hemodialysis center, and various primary care and specialty offices.

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Position Summary:

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Cardiac Cath/EP Lab - Part Time, on call required.

Nurse practitioners NP are dedicated to providing quality professional cost effective health care to all patients at NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk. At NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk NPs provide services as a licensed independent practitioner LIP collaborating with a licensed physician fulfilling a broad range of medical services that would otherwise be provided by the physician A NP shall be permitted to provide any service within his/her scope of training/skills outlined in the collaborative agreement between the NP and the collaborating physician that has been approved by the Credentials Committee NPs may provide care for all patients throughout the hospital as permitted by their certification and licensure NPs work collaboratively with the patient's physicians assisting in providing high quality care and a well planned timely discharge NPs provide patient centered care as members of interdisciplinary teams emphasizing evidence based practice and accepted standards of care A NP shall document according to the practices included in the Clinical Documentation Initiative CDI NPs with Registered Nurse First Assistant RNFA documentation working in surgery have the primary responsibility of assisting in surgery A NP working in surgery must have a collaborative agreement with a surgeon A NP working in surgery will also perform surgical functions in other areas of the hospital as needed by the surgeons or the Chief PA A NP on the Trauma Team must have privileges to first assist in surgery experience in emergency medicine and current Advanced Trauma Life Support ATLS documentation or acquire it within six months A NP on the Trauma Team may be required to be on call

Job Responsibilities:

Assessment and Reassessment of Patients

Introduces/identifies self as a nurse practitioner

Assists the physician with patient management focusing on quality care and a well planned timely discharge

Communicates professionally and effectively with the patient #39;s physician and as appropriate consulting physicians case managers nurses and other Hospital staff any patient information that may affect discharge or the patient #39;s hospital course

Performs initial and ongoing assessment/history and physical examination

Assesses/reassesses patient #39;s condition and care plan

Orders and interprets tests/results lab radiology ekg etc based on patient need

Orders medications and treatments

Documents care in the chart in accordance with hospital policies and procedures

Formulates diagnoses

Formulates and implements patient care and treatment plans Discusses patient care and treatment plans expectations needs and any other information with physicians nurses case managers and other hospital staff Uses established Long Island Health Network LIHN guidelines if applicable

Obtains consents for blood/blood product transfusion CAT scan and MRI contrast administration and for procedures performed by the PA

Initiates consults…