Advanced Practice Provider (APP, NP, PA), Cardiac Surgery - Full Time Rotating

About the role

Join UChicago Medicine, as an Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) within the Cardiac Surgery department. We offer advanced surgical solutions to treat atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valve disease and many other heart conditions.

Responsibilities

• Provide daily management of patients undergoing Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic procedures, including heart and lung transplantation and ventricular assist devices.
• Gathers pertinent information systematically and skillfully from all sources: history, diagnostic tests, comprehensive physical examination, and psycho-social assessments.
• Differentiates normal and abnormal variations for all body systems.
• Assesses patient and family adaptation, coping skills and the need for crisis or other intervention.
• Accurately interprets diagnostic tests.
• Analyzes multiple sources of data in making clinical judgments and in determining the effectiveness of a plan of care.
• Develops problem lists with associated differential diagnosis.
• Incorporates assessment findings into a plan to direct patient care.
• Plans and implements appropriate pharmacological therapies.
• Accurately and appropriately performs routine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques according to established protocols and standardized procedures for nurse practitioners.
• Initiates referrals based on patient and family need.
• Seeks appropriate consultation dependent upon patient health care needs.
• Accurately presents and documents the database, impression and plan of care.
• Promotes, has knowledge of and utilizes appropriate patient care protocol relating to the physical, psychosocial and developmental needs of adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Participates in research projects in the practice area.

Requirements

• Nurse Practitioner (NP): Required Qualifications - Master's of Science in Nursing, Current and/or eligibility for State of Illinois RN and APN licensure/registration, Certified as a Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurse's Credentialing Center or American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Ability to qualify for Illinois and DEA prescribing numbers OR Physician Assistant (PA): Required Qualifications - Completion of an accredited (Physician Assistant) educational program, Certification by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), Current and/or eligibility for State of Illinois licensure/registration, Certification in ACLS.

Qualifications

• Experience using automated IS including but not limited to: keyboards, computer terminals, telephones, battery-operated devices, heat-copying devices, and automated dispensing machines.

Benefits

Sign on bonus up to $10,000.00 and relocation available.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the job description.

Schedule

Details about the schedule are not specified in the job description.