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Tele-ICU Physician

Employer
Dartmouth Health
Location
Lebanon, New Hampshire
Posted Date
May 15, 2019

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Specialty
Pulmonary / Critical Care
Position Type
Permanent
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Job Details

The Tele-ICU physician is expected to provide continuous vigilance; early intervention and ongoing care with the goal to decrease ICU-related morbidity and mortality. Being able to navigate within multiple EMRs with proper training is necessary in providing timely care to numerous hospital locations. In addition, the Tele-ICU physician must exercise the highest level of expertise to optimize quality of care. The Tele-ICU physician is also a member of a collaborative care team and the highest degree of professionalism and respect for the primary bedside team is expected.

Responsibilities:

Clinical
  • Provides near continuous attendance to the workstation during the shift.
  • Facilitates bedside attendance by MD, PA, NP etc., as needed for procedures, bedside evaluations, or bedside interventions after discussion with the attending/managing physician or primary care provider and at the discretion of same.
  • Responsible for note writing and documentation. All documentation should be completed before leaving at the end of the shift.
  • Obtains consultation from specialty services when appropriate.
  • Intervenes immediately in emergent or life-threatening clinical situations.

Quality
  • Effectively communicates with members of the Tele-ICU team and bedside ICU interdisciplinary team in a collegial and courteous manner to provide safe and error-free care during routine care and emergent conditions.
  • Compiles with best practices and other care directives that the hospital has endorsed in response to Performance Improvement initiatives.
  • Reports clinical, administrative or technical problems (using a defined reporting process) that result in medical errors, unsafe care or sub optimal communication between eICU and ICU health care professionals.
  • Follows through with issues in a timely fashion.

Security
  • Maintain patient confidentiality and privacy.

Customer Relations
  • Demonstrates excellent interpersonal/customer service skills as evidenced by the following:
  • Exhibits communication skills that facilitate interchange between health care workers to provide quality patient care/outcome.
  • Is articulate; uses eye contact and appropriate body language; and is an active listener
  • Asks appropriate, probing questions to identify accurate clinical picture.
  • Assumes ownership for problems and works to provide a resolution.
  • Demonstrates enthusiasm and interest in response to calls to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Tele-ICU Center.

Qualifications:
  • Graduation from an accredited school of Medicine.
  • Board Certification in Critical Care Medicine.
  • Upon employment, current state medical license.
  • Upon employment, current Federal Drug Enforcement Agency license, state controlled substance license when necessary, and staff privileges at all the hospitals for which coverage is being provided

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. With destinations like Boston, New York, the seacoast and ski country within driving distance, the opportunities - both career and personal - truly make New Hampshire the ideal place to work and play.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Company

Our Mission:

We advance health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships, providing each person the best care, in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Our Vision:

Achieve the healthiest population possible, leading the transformation of health care in our region and setting the standard for our nation.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock is a national leader in academic medicine, particularly in evidence-based and patient-centered health care, medical research, and health care policy reform. The
system includes hundreds of physicians, specialists, and other providers who work together at different locations to meet the health care needs of more than 1.5 million patients in northern New England. Dartmouth-Hitchcock patients have access to specialists in almost every area of medicine in addition to primary care services at local community practices as well as world-class research at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. With a focus on achieving the healthiest population possible, Dartmouth-Hitchcock is also leading the transformation of health care in partnership with the Geisel School, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, and Dartmouth College’s business, engineering, and undergraduate faculties. From modest origins as a rural, regional medical college to national stature as a leading academic health care system, Dartmouth-Hitchcock is well aligned with the demands on medicine now and for the foreseeable future.

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