Physician Opportunity: Critical Care - Springfield

CoxHealth in Springfield, Missouri, seeks a physician for our pulmonary/critical care department. This physician must be BC/BE in critical care medicine and will join an existing practice of eight physicians.

The physicians within this department practice outpatient pulmonary medicine and lead the intensivist program at Cox Medical Center South, a 706-bed, Level 1 Trauma Center in Springfield, Missouri. Cox Medical Center South includes 76 adult critical care patient rooms.

NOCTURNIST CRITICAL CARE---INTENSIVIST

Clinical Patient Management – Tele-ICU

Typical Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Evaluate and treat new adult admissions and intervene to prevent further deterioration.
• Diagnose and stabilize critically ill medical and surgical patients with impending or active organ failure (respiratory, cardiac, neurologic, hepatic, gastrointestinal, hematologic, renal, etc.) or life-threatening electrolyte and acid-base disturbances or poisonings.
• Initiate advanced cardiac life support until the code team arrives, then supervise and support the code team.
• Use data from appropriate monitoring devices to titrate therapy in the ICU.
• Initiate, manage, and wean patients from mechanical ventilation using various techniques and ventilators.
• Act as the ICU team leader where appropriate and increase the clinical skill of ICU nurse practitioners, nurses, and ancillary personnel in caring for critically ill patients.
• Institute best practices
• Respond to patient alarms and alerts
• Proactively communicate changes in patient status to the appropriate physician(s)
• Effectively communicate with members of the tele-ICU team collegially to provide safe and error-free care during routine care and emergent conditions.
• Participate in educational programs for the critical care unit personnel and the medical staff.
• Participate in monitoring the quality, safety, and appropriateness of patient care as requested by the director or designee.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited School of Medicine
• Board Certification or eligibility in Critical Care Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine or Anesthesia or the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine or Anesthesia.
• state medical license
• Current ACLS certification.