ADVANCED PRACTICE CLINICIAN - PULMONOLOGY HEALTH CENTER-NOCTURNIST NP

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care as the Center's Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner according to established protocols, policies, procedures, and accepted standards of care.
• Follows established nursing standards, procedures, and practices, and gives specific patient care directions to nursing and other staff.
• PARTNERS WITH ATTENDING TO PROVIDE NIGHT SHIFT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL MANAGEMENT FOR CRITICAL-CARE SERVICE.
• 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 (or on-call).
• Advanced skills of comprehensive airway management
• Invasive procedures to include central lines, arterial lines, tube thoracostomy, dialysis catheters
• Selects, implements, manages, and titrates vasoactive drugs, insulin infusions, sedation, and analgesia.

Qualifications

• Completion of an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program approved by the ANCC or AANP or Physician Associate.
• MUST HOLD CURRENT LICENSE AS A REGISTERED NURSE OR PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE, NATIONAL BOARD CERTIFICATION AS AN ANCP (ANCC OR AANP), A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY BY THE DELAWARE BOARD OF NURSING AS A CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER OR PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE.
• MUST HAVE VALID PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY AS ISSUED BY THE DELAWARE BOARD OF NURSING OR STATE MEDICAL BOARD OF DELAWARE.
• MUST HAVE DEA LICENSE OR BE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR DEA NUMBER AND LICENSE.
• MUST HAVE A VALID BLS AND ACLS CARD UPON HIRE.
• CERTIFICATION FOR FCSS AND FORMAL AIRWAY COURSE REQUIRED WITHIN 1 YEAR OF HIRE.
• MINIMUM OF 2 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN CRITICAL CARE, REQUIRED.