NP/PA: Neurocritical Care

About the role

The selected candidate will work 80 hours every 2 weeks, a combination of 12-hour shifts days and nights, to include weekends and holidays rotation. Our state-of-the-art, eighteen-bed Neurocritical Care Intensive Care unit and six-bed step-down unit, including two rooms with epilepsy monitoring capability, are located on our Newark campus.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with other caregivers within established protocols, guidelines, and scope of practice.
• Utilize teaching/learning principles coupled with expert clinical knowledge to promote and provide education to patients and their families.
• Perform procedures including lumbar puncture, arterial catheterization, and central venous catheterization.
• Assess health status of the neurocritical care patient through complete physical examination and medical history.
• Design individualized management plans in collaboration with physicians, staff nurses, and other healthcare providers.
• Manage care plans and treat patients with acute ischemic stroke (s/p TPA, mechanical thrombectomy, malignant stroke), non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage, non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage, Status epilepticus, Meningitis/encephalitis, post-surgical management of patients with CNS tumors, and cerebrovascular interventions.

Requirements

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner must be a graduate of an accredited program and be certified or eligible for certification.
• Physician Assistant must be a graduate of an ARC-PA accredited program and be certified or eligible for certification by the NCCPA.
• Licensed or license eligible for the state of DE.
• Must have or be eligible to obtain prescriptive authority.
• Previous critical care experience preferred.
• BLS and ACLS certifications required.

Qualifications

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner: Graduate of an accredited program, certified or eligible for certification.
• Physician Assistant: Graduate of an ARC-PA accredited program, certified or eligible for certification by the NCCPA.
• Licensed or license eligible for the state of DE.
• Prescriptive authority.
• Previous critical care experience preferred.
• BLS and ACLS certifications required.

Skills

Comfortable working independently in collaboration with the neurocritical intensivist, performing direct medical management utilizing approved protocols, procedures, and expert consultation for adult neurocritical care patients.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus annual quality incentive bonus.
• Generous CME.
• Paid time and allowance.
• Six weeks + of paid time off.
• 12 weeks paid protected parental leave.
• Options for career growth.
• 403(b) and Defined Contribution Plan Retirement Options with Employer Match.

Pay

$122,903.00 - $154,147.00

Schedule

80 hours every 2 weeks, a combination of 12-hour shifts days and nights, to include weekends and holidays rotation.