Advanced Practice Provider - APRN or PA - Critical Care

Responsibilities

• Completes Quality Assurance chart reviews (25 charts for new grad, 10 charts for an established provider)
• Performs endotracheal intubations, arterial lines, central lines, and temporary hemodialysis catheter lines placement
• Evaluates signs and symptoms, including age-appropriate changes, noting pertinent positives and negatives (patient care)
• Develops and reformulates differential diagnoses by priority, identifies co-morbidities, and uses diagnostic strategies and technical skills to monitor and sustain physiological function and ensure patient safety
• Facilitates effective coordinated patient care during daily team transition huddles
• Utilizes evidence-based practice, prescribing appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment modalities, implementing treatment and referral orders, interpreting and evaluating appropriate lab and diagnostic testing, and reporting to collaborating physician(s) and health care team members
• Maintains quality of care through consultation, collaboration, continuing education, certification, and evaluation
• Improves practice as well as engages in interdisciplinary peer and colleague review
• Adapts teaching and learning approaches based on physiological and psychological changes, age, developmental stage, cognitive status, readiness to learn, health literacy, the environment, and available resources (professionalism)
• Identifies processes, principles to meet quality core metrics and documentation standards and expectations (system based)

Requirements

• APRN: Master’s degree with an Advanced Practice Nursing Focus and National Board Certification required
• PA: Master’s degree required with the appropriate National Certification
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification required

Essential Functions

• Communicate and relate well with staff, provider(s), and the public
• Awareness of patient confidentiality and ability to follow directions well from physician and work autonomously with little direction
• Demonstrate positive interpersonal relationships and critical analysis skills
• Maintain competencies and skills of specialty area of practice
• Assess, diagnose with critical thinking, and implement a plan of care
• Advocate on behalf of the patient population and the profession through active participation in the health policy process
• Address the development and implementation of system policies affecting services