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Job Description:
CTPA services are needed to support the cardiothoracic surgery program at the Milwaukee VAMC. CTPA services include assisting in the Operating Room (OR) as the first or second surgical assistant to the resident or staff physician, helping to open and close all incisions pertinent to CT surgery, harvesting veins, and other duties as directed within defined scope of practice. CTPAs shall be board certified.
Direct Patient Care: estimated 98% of total time
Scope of Care:
- Contractor’s CTPAs shall be responsible for providing the following duties within their Scope of Practice and possessing the skills below, including but not limited to:
- Assist in the operating room as the first or second surgical assistant to the resident or staff physician to help open and close all incisions pertinent to CT surgery, harvest veins and other duties as directed.
- In an emergency, pending arrival of a physician, the CTPA may perform emergency care within their Scope of Practice and according to the Milwaukee VAMC policies and procedures. The CTPA may perform any procedure; administer or order any medications that would normally be ordered; order any emergency resuscitative drugs required during an attempted Code procedure until a senior staff physician or resident physician is present; and perform CPR and assist in any capacity, including mechanical resuscitation or surgical operative resuscitation in accordance with current Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation standards, required by the physician at hand. The CTPA shall also perform Basic Life Support (BLS in accordance with BLS protocols, to include defibrillation and cardioversion IF the CTPA has current documentation of successful BLS course completion.
- Patient treatment documentation to any/all clinical records will occur immediately following the procedure and may include documenting in the patient’s electronic medical record. VA uses an electronic medical record system and therefore, electronic signatures will be required. The CTPA will document and sign all patient notes within 4 hours of the encounter.
- Comply with appropriate and applicable policies, procedures, rules, and regulations of the Milwaukee VAMC. Examples include narcotic control and use, personnel policies, infection control, and medical records.
- The CTPA shall be physically present in the facility to perform the required services as specified in this task order. All patient encounters are entered into the VA electronic health record and shall provide documentation of workload
- Patient Safety Compliance and Reporting: Contractor’s CTPAs shall follow all established patient safety and infection control standards of care. Contractor’s CTPAs shall make every effort to prevent medication errors, falls, and patient injury caused by acts of commission or omission in the delivery of care. All events related to patient injury, medication errors, and other breeches of patient safety shall be documented in the medical record of those impacted and disclosed to the patient or surrogate. As soon as practicable (but within 24 hours) Contractor’s CTPAs shall notify COR of incident and submit an entry in the VA Patient Safety Reporting System, following up with COR as required or requested.
Technical Proficiency:
- Contractor’s CTPAs shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the Government’s requirements, including the ability to speak, understand, read, and write English fluently.
- Contractor shall provide documents upon renewal or request of the CO/COR to verify current and ongoing competency, skills, certification and/or licensure related to the provision of care, treatment and/or services performed.
- Contractor shall provide verifiable evidence of all educational and training experiences including any gaps in educational history for all Contractor’s CTPAs.
Qualifications:
- Staff/Facility
- License:
- The Contractor’s CTPAs assigned by the Contractor to perform the services covered by this task order shall have a current license to practice as a Physician Assistant in any State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia) when services are performed onsite on VA property.
- All licenses held by the personnel working on this task order shall be full and unrestricted licenses.
- Contractor’s CTPAs who have current, full, and unrestricted licenses in one or more states, but who have, or ever had, a license restricted, suspended, revoked, voluntarily revoked, voluntarily surrendered pending action, or denied upon application may not be considered for the purposes of this task order.
- Board Certification, Education, & Experience:
- All Contractor’s CTPAs shall be Board Certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physicians Assistants (NCPPA).
- All continuing education courses required for maintaining certification must be kept up to date.
- Documentation verifying current certification shall be provided by the Contractor to the COR upon recertification. Additionally,
- Cardiothoracic Physician Assistants shall have a minimum of 1 year experience performing as the first or second surgical assistant to the resident or staff physician.
Hours of Operation:
- VA Business Hours:
- Contractor CTPA services will be provided Tuesdays from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
- Wednesdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Thursdays from 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- CTPAs shall be on time, in location, and available to perform services as scheduled.
- The payment for any leave, including sick leave, vacation time, military leave and educational leave are the responsibility of the contractor.
- On-Call Coverage:
- The contractor shall also be responsible for providing on-call coverage Tuesday 4:30 p.m. to Wednesday 8:30 a.m.,
- Wednesday 5:30 p.m. to Thursday 7:30 a.m., and Thursday 1:00 p.m. to Friday 12:00 a.m.
- On-call means the scheduled CTPA will carry a cellular phone/pager and is able to report to the Milwaukee VAMC within 30 minutes.
- While on-call for the Milwaukee VAMC, the CTPAs covered by this task order are not to be concurrently on-call to both the Milwaukee VAMC and another institution for the same period.
- The contractor shall create a call schedule with a primary CTPA and a secondary CTPA on-call, thus always having someone available for VA call.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Requirements:
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)/Resume of the proposed service providers
- Copy of all current licenses/certifications of proposed service providers including American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).
- BLS is required, ACLS is preferred.
- Up to three completed work related references for each provider.
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Job Type: Contract
Pay: $220.00 – $240.00 per hour
Medical Specialty:
- Surgery
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Ability to Commute:
- Milwaukee, WI 53295 (Required)
Work Location: In person
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