1860 Pennsylvania Avenue
Fairfield,
CA
94533
US
2024-03-01
2024-08-25
Employment Type:
Permanent
Specialty: Neonatology
Job Number: 29811
Job Description
- JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Round on all NICU babies
- Attend high risk deliveries (typically 67 shifts / month)
- Back up the Pediatric Hospitalist as requested
- Attend High Risk Followup Clinic once per month for a half day
- Attend Medical Staff Meetings (General, Peds, Perinatal M&M)
- Serve on Medical Staff Committees as requested (usually 1 committee)
- Cover 10 shifts/year at 2nd facility: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland
- DETAILS:
- Level 3 16bed NICU
- All highrisk deliveries <35 weeks gestation are covered by the Neonatologist
- Highrisk deliveries >35 weeks are shared between the Hospitalists and the Neonatologists
- NICU averages about 170 admissions per year
- Average daily census is approximately 78
- The NICU manages infants >28 weeks gestation and provides short term conventional ventilation and BCPAP
- Typically 78 hrs a day are spent doing NICU care with roughly 4-6 hrs being on rounds and the remainder attending high risk deliveries.
- Day shift is from 7AM through 5PM. The night shift begins at 5PM and ends 7AM the following day
- Call is from home
- When not on service, rounding, attending deliveries or meetings it is not the expectation to remain in house
- Expect to be called in for a delivery once or twice every third time on call though this may be quite variable. Typically, <1 telephone call should be expected between the hours of 5pm and 7am
- Neonatologist is expected to cover 24 weekends per year, and a share of the major holidays
- COMMUNITY:
- Located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Commutable form Sacramento or San Francisco
- Easily accessible to major highways such as I80 and I-680
- Convenient proximity to the Napa Valley wine region as well Â
- REQUIREMENTS:
- BC/BE Neonatology
- NRP instructor course completion and facility in all NRP procedures (including intubation and UVC placement)
- Core procedures including, but not limited to:Â ETT, UAC, UVC, LP, Chest Tube placement and circumcision
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