Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner, Cardiac Surgery

UChicago Medicine is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) to join its Cardiac Surgery Department.

This role involves comprehensive direct patient care management in a hospital setting, utilizing advanced assessment skills to evaluate, diagnose, and manage critically ill cardiac surgery patients. The APP will work within the Heart and Vascular Center, which specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of heart conditions.

Practice Info

• Comprehensive care to patients in the inpatient settings cared for by the APPs of the cardiac surgery ICU and stepdown units.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, using advanced clinical skills to manage a caseload of patients.
• Provide a model of care that is shaped by theory, expanded by science, research and reflective practice and is identified by a holistic and comprehensive approach to the patients.

Responsibilities

• Utilize advanced assessment skills and knowledge of clinical therapeutics to evaluate, diagnose and manage critically ill patients.
• Order and interpret appropriate diagnostic tests, therapeutic interventions and prescribe pharmacological agents as necessary.
• Maintain continuity of patient care through patient follow-up, monitoring of patient progress and modifying plan of care as necessary.
• Apply knowledge of new technology and resources demonstrating advanced or specialized expertise in caring for a variety of cardiac surgery patients.
• Assess patient and family adaptation, coping skills and the need for crisis or other intervention.
• Formulate a plan of care in collaboration with the patient, family, physician, nursing staff and other member of the health care team.
• Plan and implement appropriate pharmacological therapies.
• Accurately and appropriately perform routine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques according to established protocols and standardized procedures for nurse practitioners.

Compensation

• Eligible for a Sign-On Bonus up to $10,000
• Eligible for Relocation Assistance

Shift & Schedule

• Full-Time, 1.0 FTE
• Rotating, 3X12'S

Requirements

• No visa sponsorship available
• Advanced degree (or equivalent, if license received prior to July 1, 2001) from an accredited school/college of nursing required (for Nurse Practitioner).
• Ability to obtain Illinois advanced practice nurse (APN) license by start date required (for Nurse Practitioner).
• Current license as a Registered Nurse required (for Nurse Practitioner).
• AANC certification as an ACNP and/or ANP-BC required (for Nurse Practitioner).
• Minimum two years of critical care clinical nursing experience with demonstrated clinical competence in patient care, teaching and management of patients with critical illness, and knowledge about clinical aspects of critical care including protocol therapy preferred (for Nurse Practitioner).
• Completion of an accredited (physician assistant) educational program required (for Physician Assistant).
• Certification in ACLS and by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) and current and/or eligibility for: State of Illinois licensure / registration required (for Physician Assistant).
• ICU Certification Required (for Physician Assistant).
• ICU experience highly preferred (for Physician Assistant).