Physician / Nephrology / Pennsylvania / Permanent / Locums Pediatric Nephrology Need in Pennsylvania Job

Coverage Needed

• ASAP - ongoing

Schedule

• The outpatient clinic operates between 8 am and 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday.
• To ensure reliable service, a provider must commit to a minimum of one week but ideally two weeks of availability per month. The provider is expected to make themselves available for calls during evenings and weekends, beginning on Monday at 7 am and concluding at the same time the following Monday. During the on-call week, the provider must see to a minimum of five outpatients each day at the clinic and be available for inpatient rounds/consults.

Clinical Details

• Hospital varies- OP 7 patients per shift
• 189 beds in hospital
• Trauma level 1
• Typically, the provider covers 70% of inpatients and 30% of outpatients, but this may vary.

Requirements

• Board certified
• Active PA license
• PALS
• Management and Treatment of:
  • Bartter's Syndrome- preferred
  • Fabry Disease- preferred
  • Fanconi Syndrome- preferred
  • Hemolytic- uremic Syndrome- preferred
  • Hepatorenal Syndrome- Preferred
  • Renal Transplant- Preferred
• Procedures:
  • Hemodialysis- Required
  • Percutaneous Renal Biopsy- preferred
  • Peritoneal Dialysis, acute/chronic-preferred
  • Needle biopsy of the kidney- preferred.

Call

• Beeper
• 15 mins response
• 0-5 phone consults on avg per 24 hrs
• 0-10 patients seen on avg per 24 hours
• 0-5 admissions on avg per 24 hours

Support Staff

• 3 MAs
• 1 RN
• 1 PA/NP
• 1 office staff

EMR

• Epic