What are the responsibilities and job description for the Inpatient Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Hospitalist Opportunity – Block Schedule – Montana (experience required) position at Benefis Medical Group?
Inpatient Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Hospitalist Opportunity – Block Schedule – Montana (experience required)
Benefis Hospital, in Great Falls, Montana, is seeking a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner to join our pediatric inpatient team at our large regional health system. Only candidates with vast inpatient pediatric experience will be considered, and PICU or pediatric ER experience is strongly preferred.
Our inpatient medical experts include Pediatricians, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Pediatric Psychiatry Nurse Practitioners, Pediatric Anesthesiologists, Neonatologists and Neonatal Nurse Practitioners. Additional outpatient pediatric resources include : Pediatricians, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, Pediatric Cardiology, Child / Adolescent Psychiatry, Pediatric Psychology and Neuropsychology, and Pediatric Therapies.
Pediatric Hospitalist Program Details
- Full time = 182 shifts per year
- Schedule is typically 7 on / 7 off
- Inpatient team of 2 Pediatric Physicians and 2 Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
- 1 physician, 1 nurse practitioner working together per 24 shift and alternating 1 st call every other day / night for work life balance.
- Ability to take call from home
- Inpatient pediatric rounds, newborn rounds, and response to ED for pediatric patients
- Each day can bring its own unique challenges with the variety of patients and families that are cared for in our region. If we are unable to care for a pediatric patient or if the patient requires a true PICU or specialty care, we have a medical jet for transport to Seattle Children's Hospital.
- Acuity ranges from overnight admission for observation to acute PICU level care. A great opportunity to care for a wide variety of conditions and make a difference in our growing community.
- The Pediatric Hospitalist clinical team will need to be comfortable with occasional short term pediatric ventilator management post op (physician resources in pediatric anesthesia are available along with a strong, experienced, Respiratory Therapist team)
Pediatric Unit
Birth Center / NICU
How we support you
Community Information : Great Falls is known as Montana’s base camp for art and adventure with a city population of 70,000, and a draw of over 275,000 people in north central Montana. We have four genuine seasons, experience mild winters and enjoy blue skies over 300 days per year. Great Falls is a wonderful and safe place to raise a family, with nationally ranked public schools, endless activities, two accredited colleges, a brand-new nursing school, a biomedical rural health research institute, and a new not-for-profit medical school, TouroCOM Montana. Additionally, the Missouri River, a blue-ribbon fly-fishing destination, runs through the middle of our community with over 60 miles of paved recreational trails. Our local outdoor activities include camping, backpacking, hiking, biking, horseback riding, water and snow skiing, rock and ice climbing, boating, paddle boarding, kayaking, off-road motor sports, and hunting making our quality of life unrivaled in the Rocky Mountain West. Additionally, in 2023, Montana was named #1 state in the nation to practice medicine by WalletHub and in 2020, Great Falls ranked #10 for best cities to practice in after the pandemic by Business Insider.
Benefis Health System is one of Montana’s largest tertiary centers holding a level II trauma designation. We are proud to be a standalone, financially stable community health system with strong, dedicated leadership focused on providing the best patient care in Montana, in addition to being awarded Becker’s “Best Places To Work in Healthcare” for 7 years. Benefis covers ¼ of the state’s land mass, an area comparable in size to Kansas and can provide advanced care for everything except for burns and organ transplants. We offer great specialty support including neurosurgery, cardiothoracic and vascular, advanced gastroenterology, a regional cancer institute and a state-of-the-art emergency trauma department with a dedicated air ambulance program, including fixed and rotor wing.
Salary : $5,000
