Locum Tenens - Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine - Colorado -237596

Job Overview

• Specialty: Pulmonary Critical Care
• Hospital Location: Loveland, CO
• Reason for opening: Scheduling Need
• Setting: Hospital (working at 3 different hospitals in the area)
• Details:
  • Medical Center of the Rockies (MCR):
    • Level I Trauma
    • In house coverage: 7a-7p – Includes rounding
    • In house coverage: 7p-7a
    • Other pulmonology physicians will be on-site with locum.
  • Poudre Valley Hospital (PVH)
    • Level II Trauma
    • In house coverage: 7a-7p includes rounding
    • Offsite pager call: 7p-7a
    • Other pulmonology physicians will be on-site with locum.
  • Greeley Hospital (GH)
    • Level III Trauma
    • In house coverage: 7a-7p includes rounding
    • Offsite pager call: 7p-7a
    • No other Pulmonology physicians are on-site with locum.
  • Each locum will only be assigned one location per 12-hour shift.
  • Coverage is capped at 7 days consecutively and will rotate between locations to allow for lighter days between shifts.
  • Coverage needed is 30 shifts per month in total for all locums.
  • Setting: Inpatient, Level I, II, & III Trauma
  • Facility address: 4050 Briargate Parkway, Colorado Springs, CO
  • Required Procedures/Job Duties: Clinical Areas: Inpatient Pulmonology is preferred, Critical Care Intensivist is required for ICU.
  • Required Procedures/Job Duties: Pulmonary Procedures: Ventilation Management, Invasive (ETT/NT/Tracheostomy), Non-invasive (BiPAP/CPAP), Bronchoscopy, Diagnostic, Diagnostic with Bronchial Alveolar lavage, Chest tube insertion, Central line insertion, arterial line insertion, Thoracentesis, Therapeutic with Foreign body extraction.
  • Required Procedures/Job Duties: Critical Care Practice Settings: Medical: Cardiac arrest/failure, respiratory arrest/failure, sepsis, metabolic disorders, renal failure, OD/poising, drowning, etc. patients. Surgical: Pre- and post-operative general, vascular, orthopedic, neuro, and cardiovascular/thoracic patients.
  • Required Procedures/Job Duties: Critical Care procedures: Insertion of PA catheter, Dialysis catheter placement, diagnostic/therapeutic taps, lumbar puncture, and paracentesis are preferred.
• EMR: EPIC
• Support Staff: None
• Worksite resources: Lab on-site, x-ray on-site.
• Reason for Coverage: Gaps in coverage