Pediatrics Nurse Practitioner
: Job Details :

ECU Health Physicians and Carteret Health Care are partnering together to expand and are seeking a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner-Acute Care or Physician Assistant for a unique role providing care for newborn infants and pediatric patients, at Carteret Health Care in Morehead City, NC with a monthly on-site rotation at ECU Health Maynard Children's Hospital in Greenville, NC for high-risk resuscitation skills and competency maintenance.

Highlights include:

• Employment by ECU Health Physicians
• Hospital privileges at Carteret Hospital and the ECU Health Maynard Children s Hospital
• Support and continuous competency training provided by Maynard Children s Hospital at ECU Health Medical Center
• Average of 12 x 24 hour shifts per month with return to the Children's Hospital for continued competency for an average of 24 hours per quarter
• Clinical responsibilities when providing coverage will include rounding and coordination of care from admission to discharge for all newborn patients and attendance all at risk deliveries and participation in the resuscitation, stabilization, and transfer of critically ill neonates as needed
• Transfer support provided by ECU Health Medical Center
• Competitive Compensation and Comprehensive Benefits to include: Administrative Stipend, Relocation, PTO, Malpractice/Tail Coverage, 401k matching/457, Medical, Dental & Vision, Disability & Life Insurance.

Job Requirements include:

• Experienced PNP-AC or Physician Assistant- At least 2 years of NICU Experience
• NC RN licensure & NC Nurse Practitioner or NC licensure as a Physician Assistant
• National Board Certification as a Pediatric NP-AC, or as PA required, including maintenance
• 2+ years of experience in health care setting
• Applicants will be required to have BLS certification from The American Heart Association

Carteret Health Care

Carteret Health Care is an independent, 135-bed not-for-profit hospital located in Morehead City minutes from historic Beaufort, Atlantic Beach, and Shackleford Banks, where the wild horses roam. The hospital offers a full range of acute care, diagnostic and outpatient services including a cancer center, imaging center, wound & bariatric center, birthing center, dialysis, and more.

Maynard Children s Hospital at ECU Health Medical Center

The Maynard Children s Hospital, located on the campus of ECU Health Medical Center, is designed to care for children from newborns to 18 years of age (and up to 21 years of age is patient is being followed by a pediatric physician). The 206,499 square foot 198-bed facility provides highly specialized services including a pediatric intensive care (PICU), neonatal intensive care (NICU), kids immunosuppressed specialty unit (KISU), specialty care nursery, mother-baby unit, pediatric ECMO services, 24/7 children s emergency department, acute dialysis and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), pediatric radiology, pediatric rehabilitation, general surgery, cardiovascular surgery, neurosurgery, and craniofacial surgery. The James and Connie Maynard Children s Hospital at ECU Health Medical Center is a designated Children s Miracle Network hospital, placing it among the nation s top children s facilities.

ECU HEALTH PHYSICIANS

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 185 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 110 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research.

ECU Health Physicians includes an academic practice model (ECU employment) and a community practice model (health system employment). There is shared leadership and shared services to support the overall group and to ensure alignment for clinical care, research, education and strategy.

This innovative structure creates opportunities within ECU Health Physicians ranging from acute to ambulatory, academic practice to community practice, regional to rural, and everything in between.

Morehead City, NC

Morehead City is a vibrant waterside community on North Carolina s Crystal Coast an 85-mile stretch of beaches known as the Southern Outer Banks. Its downtown district is home to boutique shops and independently owned restaurants, unique experiences, and recreation opportunities like fishing, boating and hiking.