Location: | Clarksburg, WV (26301) |
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Job Type: | Full Time |
Salary: | $200k |
Industry: | Healthcare |
Company: | Department of Veteran Affairs |
Posted: | 20 days ago |
Reposted: | 6 days ago |
Outstanding Quality of Life & Federal/VA benefits Await You
1 license/50 States - 50-55 days paid time off annually - No Overhead, No Malpractice or Insurance Companys to deal with! Practice Pure Medicine
Education Debt Reduction and Relocation Incentives
Beautiful Clarksburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) is seeking a full-time board certified/board eligible Intensivist. Pulmonary and/or Sleep board certification preferred but not required. Provide continuous vigilance; early intervention and ongoing care to decrease ICU-related morbidity and mortality in the 9-bed maximum ICU unit. In addition, Pulmonary Intensivist proactively communicates with the additional trained and seasoned nursing & staff members of the team to assure optimal results.
ICU Intensivist perform 7 on 7 off; 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. on-site or Monday - Friday. After hours, there is the use of telehealth ICU care.
Intensivist performs various duties:
Examine and evaluate each patient soon after admission to the ICU and notify the admitting physician of assessment and recommendations; Perform and document a Critical Care Medicine consultation on all patients; Write ICU orders in addition to the admitting physician orders as deemed necessary for optimal care; Perform and document the subsequent evaluation of all patients in the ICU on daily rounds once every twenty-four hours and as needed; Coordinate with the admitting physician and consultants to organize diagnostic and treatment plans for all Intensive Care Unit patients; Participate in the Rapid Response Team (RRT) per hospital policy; Respond to all cardiac and respiratory arrests in the ICU, assuming the role of the Code Team Leader.
Specific Pulmonologist Duties:
Diagnoses, treats, and manages patients with pulmonary diseases according to accepted standards of care; Performs outpatient Consultations in Pulmonary Clinic (eight to 15 patients per day); Provides inpatient Pulmonary Consultations; Performs invasive procedures for which s/he has been granted privileges; Performs Compensation and Pension exams and/or reviews as requested; May admit ICU patients critically ill with pulmonary diseases and/or requiring assisted ventilation; Interprets pulmonary function tests; With appropriate skills, may participate in Sleep Medicine Program.
Benefits:
Interested: Please contact and forward your C.V. to Terry Anderson terrance.anderson@va.gov or call (304) 268-0377
Beautiful Clarksburg with its cozy population of 31,000 citizens is located at the center of West Virginia's 1-79 High Tech Corridor. The High-Tech Corridor is anchored on the north by Morgantown, which is the home of West Virginia University Mountaineers, a Carnegie Foundation Research Institution, and a training academy for Cisco Systems and Oracle. Morgantown was recently rated the best small city in America bybizjournals.com .