Advanced Practice Provider Pulmonary and Critical Care

The division of pulmonary and critical care is looking for acute care nurse practitioners and PA’s who have a desire to work in three exciting areas. There will be one APP deployed in each area daily. The first is the MICU where you will provide critical care to acutely ill medicine patients rounding with an attending and a resident team. The second location is a six bed medical stepdown run with an attending and an APP. The third area is the code white/sepsis team where you will respond to alerts throughout the hospital as a provider with a nursing team working with you. These alerts are as follows: code white, code sepsis, code blue, code stroke.

Position Summary:

• Performs patient assessment and assigns diagnosis based on recorded assessment data and current scientific and current research.
• Establishes plan of care and implements interventions in accordance with care paths, protocols, and standards of care and current research.
• Collaborates w/other health care providers in an interdisciplinary approach to provide care to the patient and family.
• Order and perform routine diagnostic procedures
• Develop and implement treatment plans
• Monitor the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions
• Contributes to the educational development of staff, patients, family and self.
• Demonstrates progressive leadership and effective management.
• Provides education through role modeling and in-services to meet identified learning needs and to promote professionalism.
• Advances own professional development through self-directed learning, continuing education and participation in peer review.
• Initiates and maintains positive relationships with patients/customers.
• Initiates and maintains positive relationships with co-workers.
• Takes responsibility for self-development and supports a learning environment.
• Displays commitment to the mission of the hospital and its values

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
• Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.