Pediatric Hospitalist Physician

Pediatric Hospitalist Physician at ProLocums summary :

A Pediatric Hospitalist Physician provides comprehensive care for inpatients in a Level II nursery and pediatric unit, performing vital procedures such as lumbar punctures and intubations. The role includes attending to emergency consults, stabilizing critical patients, and managing a varied census of newborn and pediatric patients. The physician may also engage in teaching residents and students while ensuring a minimal call back requirement for emergencies in the hospital setting.

Dates of Coverage :

Apr 19-21

May 20-26

June 13-16

July 1-7

Orientation - budget for 2-3 days.

Details :

• 24 hour call with 8 hours rounding.
• Setting : Inpatinet Levll II nursurey
• Duties : Attending Physician for Inpatient Peds and ED Consults. Rounding on inpatient peds and newborns in Family Birth Center. Stabilize and transfer critical patients.
• FTE : 1.0
• Required Procedures : Lumbar puncture, intubations, umbilical lines
• EMR : Patient Keeper (interface with Meditech

Additional Details :

• 18 bed ward but the bulk of the work will be in Level 2 Nursery.
• Not required to be present for births, just examine and treat neos.
• Call back is minimal
• 6 Bed Peds unit - Average Census of 2 PPD.
• 4-6 Newborns, 0-1 pediatric average per day.
• 2-4 newborns

Call Requirements? 7am-7am (24 hours per calendar day). # hours spent in-house varies depending on census and acuity, on average 5-6 hours on clinical care per day. Can opt to spend extra time teaching students / residents.

• When rounds / discharges are finished, we take calls with a 15-minute in-person response time for emergencies such as neonatal resuscitations. ED calls for consults and admissions don t have as strict of a turnaround time.
• Are circumcisions required? No.
• Are the pediatric hospitalists required to attend every delivery or just high risk? RTs (along with an RN) attend high-risk deliveries and are well trained in NRP. We are very rarely asked to attend high-risk deliveries ( 1-2x / month) but will be called emergently if the baby is not responding to initial resuscitation with RN / RT, or if baby needs persistent CPAP etc outside of the delivery room.
• Patients per day seen on the pediatric Med / Surg floor? Varies, generally 0-4. Average 1-2 during respiratory season
• Open or closed Pediatric ICU? We don t have an in-house pediatric ICU. But we do provide some ICU level care (DKA, high-flow nasal cannula) on the floor; and some level 2 nursery care (CPAP, hypoglycemia management, NG feeds, hemodynamically stable sepsis) for the neonates.
• Neonatology support? Hospital is available for phone consults and transfers. The transfer team is dedicated NICU staff who will help further stabilize the baby as-needed before transporting back.

Keywords :

Pediatric Hospitalist, Inpatient Care, Neonatal Resuscitation, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Level II Nursery, Pediatric Procedures, Hospital Medicine, Stabilization and Transfer, Clinical Care, Teaching Hospital