Critical Care PRN Physician

This is a PRN position. Hourly rates are $230/hour days, $250/hour nights

• Work cooperatively with the Director of Medical Critical Care (MICU), Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Chairman of Medicine, Nurse Manager, ICU to enhance the overall function and education in the Medical Critical Care Units
• Responsible for the overall care of patients on the Medical Critical Care Service with appropriate consultative input from the designated specialty consultants as identified by the monthly schedule.
• Responsible for day-to-day utilization of the Medical Critical Care patients including triage activity.
• Provide critical care for all non-cardiac patients on CCB 2N
• Evaluate/stabilize each medical critical care admission in a timely fashion and discuss a therapeutic plan with the primary/specialist physicians
• Intervene and communicate when problems/disagreements arise concerning patient care
• Ensures that the care of all patients in the Medical Critical Care Units appropriate and consistent with the guidelines developed by the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American Thoracic Society, or the American College of Chest Physicians.
• Supports Rapid Response and Code Blue Teams
• As part of the Critical Care Consult service, provides Critical Care support for the Emergency Department or other non-medicine services as requested (e.g. ED, OB)
• Coordinate the care to accept critically ill patients transferred to SJUMC for other facilities (e.g. Neurological & Neurosurgical patients transferred to the comprehensive Neuro/Stroke Center)
• While providing day shift coverage at SJ Wayne Medical Center, if an APN is providing in-house overnight coverage, the intensivist will provide phone coverage during the overnight hours. The overnight hours are typically between 7pm and 7am. The average time to return phone calls will be 5 minutes. As determined by the intensivist and in conjunction with the in-hospital team, the intensivist will return to the hospital to provide care.
• Responsible for any additional clinical responsibilities assigned periodically by the Chairman, Department of Medicine.