Nurse Practitioner ICU Intensivist

About the role

As a Surgical Complex Specialty Nurse Practitioner, in collaboration with the physician/medical director, you will assume clinical responsibility for tasks performed within the Nurse Practitioner's scope of practice. Join a Legacy of Healing at Saint Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (SJHMC) in Phoenix, AZ—a 571‑bed nonprofit founded by the Sisters of Mercy over 125 years ago. SJHMC is a global destination for life‑changing care, home to the Barrow Neurological Institute, Norton Thoracic Institute, and a Level I Trauma Center. The hospital fosters a culture of excellence and well‑being, values community and collaboration, and serves patients from around the world, united by the power of humankindness.

Responsibilities

• Take patient histories
• Perform physical examinations
• Order appropriate diagnostic tests
• Establish diagnoses
• Provide care and management for various illnesses and disease prevention
• Assist with patient admission, transfer, or discharge
• Make appropriate referrals to specialists and community agencies
• Participate in quality assurance and quality improvement programs
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to develop patient‑centered plans
• Provide specialized care and management for complex surgical patients, often in critical care units
• Respond to acute situations in the periprocedural period
• Collaborate with surgical teams to optimize outcomes
• Deliver comprehensive, highly specialized patient care for complex surgical cases
• Assume clinical responsibility for assessing, diagnosing, and managing patients within the NP scope
• Demonstrate exceptional clinical expertise in performing physical examinations, ordering diagnostic tests, responding to acute situations, and collaborating effectively within a multidisciplinary team
• Actively participate in quality assurance and ensure seamless care coordination throughout the surgical journey
• Perform patient evaluations
• Review pretreatment teaching
• Recommend therapeutic interventions
• Counsel patients and families
• Collaborate with appropriate physicians to provide other appropriate direct care interventions within the NP scope, in collaboration with the Program Director
• Serve as primary point of contact and assume responsibility for managing patient care
• Take 1st call after hours and weekends for all patients on service (ICU/Floor/Tele and after‑hours answering service for clinic patients)
• Perform and document