Casual Pediatric Hospitalist for Step Down Cardiac Unit

The Nemours Cardiac Center of the Children's Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware is looking for a qualified casual pediatric hospitalist to join our inpatient acute care/stepdown cardiac unit!

The Nemours Cardiac Center (NCC) provides comprehensive care for infants, children, and adolescents with cardiac, thoracic, and vascular disease. The Cardiac Center provides patient care, performs research, and educates health care professionals in a variety of settings.

This individual will work alongside advanced practice providers (APPs) and collaboratively with physicians, nurses, and other health care providers to provide specialized care to cardiac patients located in our telemetry/stepdown unit and in our post anesthesia cardiac unit (cardiac PACU).

Our patient population ranges from newborns to young adults with congenital or acquired heart disease. Surgeries are performed on a variety of complex congenital heart abnormalities, including definitive neonatal surgery, adult congenital surgery, and heart transplantation.

This is a Casual position, and the schedule is flexible and made in conjunction with other team members (including APN, PA, cardiology fellows). Shifts include day, night, weekend, and holiday.

About Us

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized children's health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children's hospitals - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we're on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children's health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child's world a place to thrive. It's a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children's and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org .