Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Newborn Hospitalist

About the job

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital in Spokane is hiring a part-time hospitalist nurse practitioner for its newborn nursery. The provider cares for newborns alongside physicians and other advanced practice clinicians.

Sacred Heart has 644 beds and a medical staff of more than 900, serving an area of around 1.5 million people, with specialized centers for orthopedics, women's health and the neurosciences.

What you'll do

• Care for newborn infants born at 35 weeks or later
• Work within a larger provider team that includes ARNP and MD/DO providers
• Handle daytime care responsibilities, with call excluded
• Identify infants who need a higher level of care and arrange their transfer to the NICU
• Consult pediatric sub-specialists when needed
• Coordinate with the outpatient providers who will see babies after they leave the hospital

Schedule

• Part-time at 0.5 FTE
• Daytime care, with call excluded

Benefits

• Pay may include productivity or quality incentives, call pay and extra shift incentives where they apply
• CME benefits may be available to providers