Atrium Health Surgical First Assist and Acute Care Transplant Surgery APP- Charlotte, NC

If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina and South Carolina. We invite Advanced Practice Providers to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together in our Transplant Surgery team at Atrium Health-Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. 

  

The Transplant Surgery Advanced Practice Provider (APP) will join a team of world-renowned Abdominal Transplant Surgeons and highly experienced Advanced Practice Providers (APP) who are committed to delivering exceptional care to treat diseases of the liver, kidney, and pancreas with transplantation. The Transplant Surgery Advanced Practice Provider (APP) will provide comprehensive clinical care to transplant patients and donors in the pre-, peri-, and post-transplant phases of care.  

 

 

Job Summary  

 
The APP will function primarily inpatient/outpatient setting caring for acute and chronically ill patients and will assist in transplant surgical procedures such as kidney, kidney/pancreas, and liver transplantation, donor organ procurements, and other general surgical procedures.  The patient population would include complex surgical diseases and disorders of the liver, pancreas, and kidney. Additional responsibilities include patient education on disease and transplantation process, pre- and post-operative care, and discharge instructions.  

The core of the Transplant APP function will primarily be surgical and acute care focused with weekend rotation coverage and call responsibilities on nights and weekends. The APP would preferably have the experience and background to independently initiate and follow through on the assessment and workup of surgery or transplant patients and will have at least basic surgical assist skills.  

 

Essential Functions 

• Provides 24-hour on-call service to schedule and technically assist transplant surgeon with organ recovery, transplant surgery, and general surgery cases. 
• Checks room prior to procedure to make sure set-up is complete. Ensures correct supplies, instruments, equipment for surgical procedures as requested by transplant surgeon. 
• Assists team in obtaining needed resources for procedures. Anticipates needs of transplant surgeon as needed or as requested. 
• Assists transplant surgeon in operating room as needed or as requested. 
• Maintains aseptic technique for self, tables and other team members. 
• Facilitates communication and planning to increase confidence and continuity of case flow. 
• Assists in promotion of harmonious relationship among operating room staff and transplant surgeons 

• Assures open and clear communications with patients, and the health care team members. 
• Reads documentation in patient’s medical charts to include doctors’ orders. 
• Listens actively to surgeon, patient, and team to ensure safe patient-centered care. 
• Maintains awareness of patient monitoring and responds appropriately to potential complications. 
• Describes the assessment and management of acute trauma. 
• Responds appropriately to emergency conditions. 
• Verifies all implants, supplies, and special procedure equipment is available and functional. 
• Monitors the actions immediately surrounding the sterile field ensuring that the integrity is maintained and/or corrected appropriately. 
• Evaluates potential causes of surgical site infections, communicating concerns and possible corrective actions to prevent and/or treat potential contamination. 
• Utilizes the OR equipment pertinent to the surgical procedure to include Hemostatic equipment and supplies, including monopolar, bipolar, harmonic scalpel, ultrasonic, medications, sponges. 
• Adheres to precautions such as the placement of grounding pad, assists scrub and circulator with accuracy of counts when necessary. 
• Maintains knowledge in usage of all laparoscopic and robotic equipment necessary for a procedure, such as: Camera, light cord, inserting/removing trocars, (performed under direct visualization of the Surgeon), graspers, scoops, sprayers, suction/irrigation systems, clamps, tenaculum’s, etc. 
• Maintains knowledge in usage of open procedure equipment necessary for procedures, including, tissue forceps, retractors, clamps, scissors sponges, suction, irrigation, use of hemostatic agents and any further applicable instrumentation as necessary. 
• Proficient in all pertinent abilities required during procedures and follows necessary and appropriate methods applicable to the procedure to include but not limited to: 

• Clamping, cauterizing, suturing, inserting, injecting, manipulating, retracting, cutting, closure of surgical sites, implant surgical