NP/PA, Neuro Critical Care - Full-Time Nights
End Date: 6/30/2023
Location: Newark, Delaware
Position Type: Advanced Practice RN, Physician Assistant
Shift: Evening Shift, Rotation Evening/Morning
Christiana Care is seeking an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our Neurocritical Care team! This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate with previous critical care experience. This position is a dedicated nights position.
Our state of the art, eighteen bed Neurocritical Care Intensive Care unit and six bed stepdown unit including 2 rooms with epilepsy monitoring capability are located on our Newark campus. The ideal Advanced Practice Clinician candidate will be comfortable working independently in collaboration with the neurocritical intensivist performing direct medical management utilizing approved protocols, procedures and expert consultation for our adult neurocritical care patients. APCs on this team are involved in quality, safety and experience improvement initiatives.
Neurocritical Care patients include:
Acute ischemic stroke (s/p TPA, mechanical thrombectomy, malignant stroke)
Non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage
Non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage
Status epilepticus
Meningitis / encephalitis
Post-surgical management of patients with CNS tumors and cerebrovascular interventions
Duties and Responsibilities include:
Assess health status of the neurocritical care patient through complete physical examination and medical history
Design individualized management plans in collaboration with physicians, staff nurses, and other health care
Manage care of the critically ill patient collaboratively with other caregivers within established protocols, guidelines, and scope of practice
Utilizes teaching/learning principles coupled with an expert clinical knowledge to promote and provide education to patients and their families
Act as liaison for patients, families, and health professionals
Perform procedures including lumbar puncture, arterial catheterization and central venous catheterization
Education and Experience requirements:
- Advance Practice Registered Nurse Practitioner with certification in Acute Care required
- Physician Assistant must be a graduate of ARC-PA accredited program and be certified or eligible for certification by the NCCPA
- Licensed or license eligible for the state of DE
- Must have or be eligible to obtain prescriptive authority
- Previous critical care experience preferred
- BLS and ACLS certifications required
EEO Statement: Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer, firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination, whose staff is reflective of its community, and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
UPDATE: ChristianaCare is committed to prioritizing the health and safety of our patients and caregivers. As we continue to meet the needs of our caregivers and our community through the COVID-19 pandemic, our commitment to health and safety requires that we take new steps to ensure a safe environment for medical care for our patients and a workplace that avoids preventable harm for our caregivers. For this reason, vaccination for COVID-19 is required for all caregivers at ChristianaCare and is considered a safety standard that is job-related and consistent with business necessity for all caregivers.
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