Nurse Practitioner - Cardiothoracic Surgery

Baptist Health Medical Group is expanding the Critical Care Cardiovascular Intensivist program!

The Cardiac and Aortic Surgery Program at Baptist Health Louisville is a regionally recognized and thriving surgical service. The dedicated CVICU team is made up of Critical Care Physicians and Nurse Practitioners who work closely together to provide comprehensive care for the CVICU, performing annually over 650 cardiac and thoracic aortic cases, serving the Louisville metropolitan area and Kentuckiana region. Baptist Health Louisville is a tertiary 613 bed hospital that has 3 other ICUs, 2 large surgical recovery rooms and 25 operating rooms. The new state of the art ICU is designed to support the growing demand of cardiac surgical, structural and temporary circulatory support cases. The unit has 12 beds in close proximity to 3 CV operating rooms, 5 cath labs and 2 CV transitional units.

The job delineation for a night shift NP includes the overnight management of cardiac surgical patients in the CVICU as well as throughout the hospital. These patients include pre- and post-op patients requiring short term care and more complex surgical patients, some of which have mechanical circulatory support devices in place. On night shift, you will manage the CVICU patients as well as Step-down patients for the CV Surgery Service. Procedural experience (intubation, central line placement, arterial line placement, dialysis catheter placement) is preferred, however not required. This full-time position will include 3, 12-hour night shifts per week (Mon-Thur) and will typically not include weekends.

About Baptist Cardiac surgery:

Baptist Health has one of the highest-volume cardiac surgery programs in the Kentucky and southern Indiana region, performing over 1,000 procedures annually. They are only group in the area ranked with 3-star STS surgical recognition in more than 2 categories. It includes 3 cardiac and thoracic aorta surgeons performing all aspects of cardiac surgery except VADs and transplants. They are known for performing the full array of cardiac surgery including all aspects of coronary revascularization, mitral valve repair, complex valve surgery and reoperation, aortic reconstructions and homografts, Ross procedures, pulmonary thromboendarterectomies, aortic thoracic open and endovascular procedures and arrythmia surgery.