Pediatric Hospitalist Physician

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.