Position Overview
**Description**
PeaceHealth is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to work in Thoracic Surgery at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington.
**Why you’ll love the practice:**
+ Join a thriving thoracic surgery service line with an experienced and collegial thoracic surgeon and nurse practitioner.
+ Participate in clinic (preoperative and postoperative evaluation) of thoracic patients.
+ Participate in hospital rounds.
+ Perform inpatient consults.
+ Assist in surgery (open, thoracoscopic, robotic)
+ Perform procedures (chest tube placement, removal, thoracentesis, placing sutures and suture removal).
+ Write orders, complete accurate documentation.
+ Take call with the Thoracic Surgeon.
+ Patient education and counseling focusing on thoracic and pulmonary pathology and treatment.
Join a team multispecialty group with established general and bariatric surgeons and advanced practice clinicians...