Nurse Practitioner, Pulmonary - Critical Care/ICU – Employed

The National Coalition of Healthcare Recruiters • Nashua, NH, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 1w ago

(Only QUALIFIED Healthcare Professionals accepted) Acute & Critical Care-NP - Hospital Critical Care|ICU Unit seeks an experienced Nurse Practitioner to work collaboratively with families and a multidisciplinary health team in an inpatient hospital-based critical care specialty unit providing acute and chronic health care to patients, including clinical management for a critical care population. Procedurally based and high acuity patients. Provide leadership through education, consultation, and research.

Responsibilities include:

Evaluate patients being admitted to the ICU from the emergency department, hospital wards, and operating rooms.
Formulate a plan of care, request appropriate diagnostic tests, enter appropriate medication, nursing, and life-support device orders.
Maintain a high degree of collaboration with the ICU nurses in managing the patient's critical care needs.
Communicate with the critical care provider team when deemed necessary.
Placement of central venous access and arterial lines.
Endotracheal intubation and basic ventilator management (the ICU has 24-7 staffing by expert Respiratory Care providers).
Ability to run a code blue as a lead.
Provide consultation to influence the identified plan of care, enhance the abilities of others to provide health care, and effect change in the healthcare system.
Make appropriate referrals and discuss recommendations with patient, family, and/or caregiver.
Collect and document comprehensive data in a systematic and ongoing process pertinent to the patient's health or situation, involving the patient, family, or caregiver when appropriate.
Initiate and interpret age-appropriate and condition-specific laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures.
Analyze and prioritize complex data to determine the differential diagnoses and revise diagnoses as appropriate to initiate the plan of care.
Prescribe appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacological agents and interventions that are both universal and unique to the patient, and monitor/evaluate effects.

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