Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant – Surgical ICU

Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant – Surgical ICU

Requirements

• Didactic education
• Clinical competency
• National certification in identified area of clinical practice
• Demonstrates medical knowledge
• Demonstrates clinical judgment
• Demonstrates technical competence
• Demonstrates professionalism
• Demonstrates interpersonal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Obtains and documents a health history; performs and documents complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific physical examination, assessment and plan of care.
• In collaboration, provides healthcare services for primary, acute and complex care of patients and manages patient’s overall care, identifying expected outcomes for diagnoses.
• Orders, performs, interprets and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
• Forms differential diagnoses and treats acute and chronic conditions.
• Prescribes therapeutic interventions both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic and surgical, needed to achieve expected outcomes.
• Utilizes evidence-based, approved practice protocols in planning and implementing care;
• Initiates appropriate referrals and consultations;
• Provides specialty specific consultation services upon request and within specialty scope of practice;
• Facilitates the patient’s transition between and within health care settings, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant Work Experience