Physician Assistant / Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Critical Care (Night)

Summary:

The Department of Critical Care is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (APP), Physician Assistant or Acute Care Certified Nurse Practitioner, to join our growing team. In this critical care role, the APP will work alongside experienced physician and APP colleagues managing diverse medical and surgical patients at Health Alliance Hospital in Kingston, NY.

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Responsibilities:

• Performing medical evaluations, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and consultations for diverse critical care patients.
• Responding to, managing and delivering direct patient care as part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team.
• Gaining a working competency of procedures inclusive of, but not limited to intubation, central line placement/removal, insertion/removal of chest tubes, and arterial lines.

Qualifications:

• Candidates must be board certified as a Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and possess or be able to obtain an applicable license in New York.
• Ideal candidates will have a minimum of 2 years of Critical Care experience although motivated and interested new graduates will be considered.
• Must possess excellent communication skills and demonstrate an ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Candidates must have BLS, ACLS, PALS, and ATLS

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About WMC Health Network

The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley.