NP or PA Rapid Response Team & ICU Support Team

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Organization: VUH Advanced Practice Provider

The Critical Care Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary healthcare team. The NP or PA provides healthcare in critical care settings, including surgical and medical ICUs. The NP or PA has didactic education, clinical competency and national certification in an identified area of clinical practice. The NP or PA demonstrates medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and is responsible for professional development and competency validation.

The NP or PA has an advanced knowledge of nursing theory and application.

• Full-Time
• Night Shift (7pm - 7am)
• 3 – 13 Hour Shifts

$15,000 Sign On Bonus for Candidates with 1 or More Years of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Experience

* The sign-on bonus is not applicable to current VUMC staff or former staff who have worked for VUMC in the past twelve months. The sign-on bonus is only available for full-time positions.

• Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) license required
• Critical Care RN or APP experience preferred

Rapid Response Team/CCOT – The rapid response NP/PA provides healthcare across the hospital when a patient outside of an ICU has a change in clinical status that requires immediate interventions to evaluate and stabilize their condition. The rapid response team (also known as the Critical Care Outreach Team - CCOT) provides 24 – hour coverage across the hospital for episodic care when patients have an acute change in clinical status outside of an ICU.

The rapid response/CCOT NP or PA works with the primary team and supervising intensivists to evaluate a patient’s clinical status and identify interventions to stabilize any acute changes while considering moving the patient to a higher level of care.

RRT/CCOT is responsible for documentation and data collection related to rapid response and STAT activations as well as education to patients, nurses, and physicians in relation to rapid response and STAT calls.

ICU Support Team – The Critical Care APP works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary healthcare team. The NP/PA provides healthcare in critical care settings, including surgical and medical ICUs. The APP has didactic education, clinical competency and national certification in an identified area of clinical practice. Upon moving to a new ICU, the APP will receive adequate training and support before moving to a more independent role within the ICU for 8 continuous weeks.

Each year, the APP will spend blocks of time working on the RRT/CCOT as well as supporting a new ICU for several months where staffing shortages are occurring.

The ICU Support Team and Rapid Response team is a dynamic and novel advanced practice provider team who work with physicians across the hospital and the different ICUs to provide care to the most sick and vulnerable patient population. Blocks of several months at a time will be spent staffing either RRT/CCOT or working within a specific ICU.

• Obtains and documents a health history; performs and documents complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific physical examination, assessment…