Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Cardiac Surgery

Job Summary:

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 ac...