Thoracic Surgery NP or PA

Description

PeaceHealth is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to work in Thoracic Surgery at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington.

Why you’ll love the practice:

• Join a thriving thoracic surgery service line with an experienced and collegial thoracic surgeon and nurse practitioner.
• Participate in clinic (preoperative and postoperative evaluation) of thoracic patients.
• Participate in hospital rounds.
• Perform inpatient consults.
• Assist in surgery (open, thoracoscopic, robotic)
• Perform procedures (chest tube placement, removal, thoracentesis, placing sutures and suture removal).
• Write orders, complete accurate documentation.
• Take call with the Thoracic Surgeon.
• Patient education and counseling focusing on thoracic and pulmonary pathology and treatment.

Join a team multispecialty group with established general and bariatric surgeo...