Transplant Surgeon - Adelphi Medical Staffing

• Specialty: Transplant Surgery

• Job Type: Locum Tenens

• Facility Location: Burlington VT

• Service Setting: Inpatient

• Reason For Coverage: Supplemental

• Coverage Period: Dec 23, 2024 - Ongoing

• Shifts Needed to be Filled:

      - Dec 23 - Jan 6

      - Feb 22 - Mar 2

• Coverage Type: Call Only

• Call Schedule: 24-hr call

      - No block time in OR

• Patient Volume: Varies

• Rounding Included: Yes

• Specialty Backup: Anesthesiologists

• Mid-level in Practice: NP who does first assist in OR, rounds IP & completes discharges.

• Support Staff: Surgical techs in OR, Transplant Administrator, Transplant Coordinators (all BSNs), Transplant Multidisc team as required by CMS; NP available (IP)

• Duties:

      - Transplant Call, screening/accepting/declining deceased donor kidneys

      - Collaborate w/ the on-call Transplant Coordinator to bring transplant candidate in for potential transplant

      - Rounding on transplant patients in the hospital less than 90 days from transplant in collaboration w/ the Transplant Nephrologist.

      - Collaborate w/ IP staff, Tx Nephrologist & Tx NP can assist w/ IP throughput (Transplant admin & coordinators can assist in navigating transplant candidate throughout. Coordinators call patients in for transplants but do not triage sick calls on acute transplant.

• Required Procedures:

      - Kidney Transplant w/o Recipient Nephrectomy

      - Preferred: Lap donor nephrectomy

• Trauma Level: I

• EMR: Epic

• Other Info:

      - Locum is welcome to attend the weekly Selection Committee meeting.

      -  Locum does not need to supervise NP.

• Travel, lodging, and malpractice insurance covered

• VT License

• BC/BE

• ASTS Certified (Transplant Surgery)

• BLS, ACLS