Job Description
Job Description
Description
Seeking an Advanced Practice Provider to join the ICU team at UH St. John's Medical Center. This position will work 12 hr. rotating days, nights, weekends and holidays. Nurse practitioners must be acute care and new grads are welcome to apply.
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A Brief Overview
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The Advanced Practice Provider is responsible for providing quality care for patients and increasing patient access and satisfaction. Standard tasks to be performed by an Advanced Practice Provider as specified by the Ohio State Board of Medicine or Nursing and UH entity specific Medical Bylaws.
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What You Will Do
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\n - Partners with Attending to provide 24/7/365 medical and surgical management for critical-care service.
\n - Critical-care duties include managing the comprehensive care of acutely and chronically critically ill or injured adult patients in collaboration with the intensivist physician on duty.
\n - Advanced skills of comprehensive airway management including endotracheal intubations using direct laryngoscopy and video assisted laryngoscopy, surgical airway management including open surgical cricothyrotomy.
\n - Partners with Attending and Respiratory Therapist to manage ventilator, non-invasive positive pressure ventilation, and high-flow modalities.
\n - Invasive procedures to include central lines, peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC lines), mid-lines, arterial lines, tube thoracostomy, dialysis catheters, cooling catheters, and various urinary catheters as indicated.
\n - Selection, implementation, management, and titration of vasoactive drugs, insulin infusions, sedation, and analgesia.
\n - Responds to all full trauma activations in ED, intracranial hemorrhages and aortic syndromes that are being transferred to a higher level of care in the ED.
\n - The above listed critical-care duties require that this position must be certified as an acute care nurse practitioner (ACNP)
\n - Initiates and maintains positive relationships w/pts/customers (10%)
\n - Initiates and maintains positive relationships w/co-workers (10%)
\n - Takes responsibility for self-development and supports a learning environment (10%)
\n - Displays commitment to the mission of the hospital and its values (10%)
\n - Performs patient assessment and assigns diagnosis based on recorded assessment data and current scientific and current research (20%)
\n - Establishes plan of care and implements interventions in accordance w/carepaths, protocols, and standards of care and current research (15%)
\n - Collaborates w/other health care providers in an interdisciplinary approach to provide care to the patient and family (5%)
\n - Contributes to the educational development of staff, patients, family and self (5%)
\n - Demonstrates progressive leadership and effective management (5%)
\n - Provides education through role modeling and in-services to meet identified learning needs and to promote professionalism (5%)
\n - Advances own professional development through self-directed learning, continuing education and participation in peer review (5%)
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Qualifications
Education
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\n - Master's Degree from an accredited PA educational program (Required)
\n - (MSN) Master's Degree in Nursing (Required)
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Work Experience
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\n - 1+ years as an Advanced Practice Provider (Preferred)
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Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
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\n - Demonstrated leadership skills. (Required proficiency)
\n - Demonstrated skills in interpersonal relationships. (Required proficiency)
\n - Computer skills to access patient medical data from UHHS mainframe. (Required proficiency)
\n - Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Outlook. (Required proficiency)
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Licenses and Certifications
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Physician Assistant:
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\n - Physician Assistant (PA) (Required) and
\n - Basic Life Support (BLS) (Required) and
\n - Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) (Preferred)
\n - Passed the Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination (Required) and
\n - Practice with a supervising physician (Required Upon Hire) and
\n - Maintain national PA Certification (Required)
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Nurse Practitioner:
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\n - Registered Nurse (RN), Ohio and/or Multi State Compact License (Required)
\n - Nurse Practitioner (NP) (Required)
\n - Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) (Required)
\n - Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) (Required)
\n - Current APRN License (Required)
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Physical Demands
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\n - Standing Frequently
\n - Walking Frequently
\n - Sitting Rarely
\n - Lifting Frequently 50 lbs
\n - Carrying Frequently 50 lbs
\n - Pushing Frequently 50 lbs
\n - Pulling Frequently 50 lbs
\n - Climbing Occasionally 50 lbs
\n - Balancing Occasionally
\n - Stooping Frequently
\n - Kneeling Frequently
\n - Crouching Frequently
\n - Crawling Occasionally
\n - Reaching Frequently
\n - Handling Frequently
\n - Grasping Frequently
\n - Feeling Constantly
\n - Talking Constantly
\n - Hearing Constantly
\n - Repetitive Motions Constantly
\n - Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination Constantly
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Job Tags
Holiday work, Work experience placement, Night shift,