Pediatric Hospitalist Locum job in Rosenberg, OR
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician
Specialty
Pediatric Hospitalist
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Locums/Travel
Work Environment
Hospital
Location
Rosenberg, Texas, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
2/20/24
Dates of Coverage:
Details:
- Apr 19-21
- May 20-26
- June 13-16
- July 1-7
- Orientation - budget for 2-3 days.
Details:
- 24 hour call with 8 hours rounding.
- Setting: Inpatinet Levll II nursurey
- Duties: Attending Physician for Inpatient Peds and ED Consults. Rounding on inpatient peds and newborns in Family Birth Center. Stabilize and transfer critical patients.
- FTE: 1.0
- Required Procedures: Lumbar puncture, intubations, umbilical lines
- EMR: Patient Keeper (interface with Meditech
- 18 bed ward but the bulk of the work will be in Level 2 Nursery.
- Not required to be present for births, just examine and treat neos.
- Call back is minimal
- 6 Bed Peds unit - Average Census of 2 PPD.
- 4-6 Newborns, 0-1 pediatric average per day.
- 2-4 newborns <1 pediatric average admits.
- Call Requirements? 7am-7am (24 hours per calendar day). # hours spent in-house varies depending on census and acuity, on average 5-6 hours on clinical care per day. Can opt to spend extra time teaching students/residents.
- When rounds/discharges are finished, we take calls with a 15-minute in-person response time for emergencies such as neonatal resuscitations. ED calls for consults and admissions don’t have as strict of a turnaround time.
- Are circumcisions required? No.
- Are the pediatric hospitalists required to attend every delivery or just high risk? RTs (along with an RN) attend high-risk deliveries and are well trained in NRP. We are very rarely asked to attend high-risk deliveries (~1-2x/month) but will be called emergently if the baby is not responding to initial resuscitation with RN/RT, or if baby needs persistent CPAP etc outside of the delivery room.
- Patients per day seen on the pediatric Med/Surg floor? Varies, generally 0-4. Average 1-2 during respiratory season
- Open or closed Pediatric ICU? We don’t have an in-house pediatric ICU. But we do provide some ICU level care (DKA, high-flow nasal cannula) on the floor; and some level 2 nursery care (CPAP, hypoglycemia management, NG feeds, hemodynamically stable sepsis) for the neonates.
- Neonatology support? Hospital is available for phone consults and transfers. The transfer team is dedicated NICU staff who will help further stabilize the baby as-needed before transporting back.