Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) - Lung Transplant

About the Role

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) delivers health‑care services to patients in collaboration with a licensed physician at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The role focuses on preventive health, management of acute and stable chronic conditions, and care for complex lung transplant recipients, both pre‑ and post‑transplant.

Responsibilities

• Provide health‑care services within the parameters of a standard care or supervisory agreement with an attending physician.
• Collaborate with physicians, nurses, pharmacists, coordinators, and other clinicians to deliver comprehensive patient care.
• Focus on preventive health, education, counseling, health promotion, and referral to appropriate resources.
• Manage acute and chronic phases of illness, including immunosuppression management and respiratory care for lung transplant patients.
• Deliver highly autonomous care to a medically complex inpatient population, with training for cross‑coverage to outpatient specialty clinics.
• Support transplant pulmonologists and cardiothoracic surgeons in the care of adult lung transplant recipients.

Minimum Qualifications

• Current certificate of authority to practice as an APRN in Ohio or eligibility for Ohio licensure as a PA‑C.
• Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner program (or PA‑C program) that qualifies the graduate to sit for the national certification exam recognized by the Ohio Board of Nursing (or NCCPA for PA‑C).
• Master of Science degree in Nursing (for NP candidates).
• 0 years of relevant experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner strongly preferred.
• 0–2 years of ICU, cardiac, transplant, or hospitalist experience preferred (applicable to both NP and PA candidates).

Career Information

• Function: Advanced Practice
• Subfunction: Advanced Practice Provider
• Career Band: Individual Contributor – Clinical
• Career Level: C3

Schedule

40 hours per week, day shift.