Urgent Need for a locum Critical Care Physician in Iowa

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Job Description

Last updated: 12/27/24
  • Practice Setting: Inpatient, Call, Rounding/Admitting (special props if the physician can do ION and other pulm procedures)
  • Dates of Coverage: mid September
  • Call Ratio: 1:4
  • Average Number of ICU Patients Per Day: 18, with support of NP
  • Average Number of Inpatient (non ICU) Patients per Physician per Day: 10, with support of NP
  • Average Number of Admissions per Physician per Day: 3-5
  • Trauma Level/Designation: 3
  • Total Number of Beds: staff 300 or less
  • Number of ICU Beds: 20
  • Number of Critical Care Physicians in Group: 3, with one hired for 2025
  • Documentation System/EMR: Cerner

Job Responsibilities

• Practice Setting: Medical, Adult
• Ventilation Management Procedures Required: Invasive (ETT/NT/Tracheostomy),Non-Invasive (BiPAP/CPAP)
• Required Insertions: Central Line, Arterial Line
• Diagnostic/Therapeutic Taps Required: Paracentesis, Thoracentesis
• Procedures Required: Chest tube insertion, Bronchoscopy, Bronchoscopy w/ Bronchial alveolar lavage (BAL), Evaluation and Management of Acute Volume/BP Issues
• Procedures Required: Pulmonary Function Testing, Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS), ION
• Treatment and Management of: Asthma, Bronchiolitis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Interstitial Lung Disease, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Pneumonia, Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Pulmonary Nodules
• Estimated Credentialing Timeframe: 60 days

Working Hours

Monday-Friday day hours, one weekend per month 24 hour on call coverage Fri-Mon am
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