APP - Pulmonary Care - Pineville, NC

If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. We invite Advance Practice Providers to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together in our Pulmonary/Critical Care team at Atrium Health - Pineville, NC.

Atrium Health, one of the most comprehensive public, not-for-profit healthcare systems in the nation, is actively recruiting an experienced Critical Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant at Atrium Health Pineville. Our facility is a rapidly growing community hospital with 394 beds. The hospital is located in Pineville, NC, just northeast of the South Carolina border.

Details of this practice and qualified candidate:

• Work schedule – 13-hour shifts (6a-7p or 6p-7a; days, nights, weekends, and holidays)
• Service provides 24/7 coverage with a shift-based model.
• Rotation between Inpatient, Outpatient and Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) - Adults - 100%
• Graduation from an accredited ACNP or PA program
• Nurse practitioners are required to have a master’s degree or doctorate in nursing practice. Certification as an ACNP from a nationally recognized certifying body is required.
• Physician Assistants with certification from the National Commission on Certification of PAs is required.
• Post graduate ICU fellowship or experience in an ICU setting as a PA or NP preferred. Applicants with significant and recent ICU experience as an RN will be considered.
• Interpersonal skills and critical thinking must be demonstrated.
• North Carolina license, North Carolina DEA, BLS and ACLS required.

Our critical care professionals strive to provide world-class comprehensive care to critically ill or injured patients. Our expert critical care team of physicians and advanced practice providers manage patients within our specialty intensive care units: cardiac medical ICU, cardiothoracic surgical ICU, medical ICU, and surgical ICU. Attending Intensivists provide supervision at our busy medical center that includes a 30 adult ICU unit and expanding to include a second 14 bed adult ICU unit in 2024. 

NP and PA duties include:

• Daily management and documentation of complicated critically ill medical and surgical patients.
• Admission directly from the operating room and management of hemodynamically complex, post op cardiac surgery patients as well as admission hemodynamically complex patients directly from the interventional cardiac lab. 
• Familiarity with mechanical support deices i.e. IABP and Impella is preferred, but not required. 
• Experience with procedures including but not limited to central venous and arterial vascular access is preferred. 
• Our site hosts an advanced practice provider fellowship in critical care.

We offer:

• Salary guarantee with Performance Incentive
• Employer paid benefits
• CME Allowance

At Atrium Health, our patients, communities and teammates are at the center of everything we do. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion allows us to deliver care that is superior in quality and compassion across our network of more than 900 care locations.

As a leading, innovative health system, we promote an environment where differences are valued and integrated into our workforce. Our culture of inclusion and cultural competence allows us to achieve our goals and deliver the best possible experience to patients and the communities we serve.

When you join Atrium Health, you will be welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. Practice where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In our nationally-renowned integrated health system, you can work alongside the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine, elevate hope and advance healing—for all.