Pediatric Nurse Practitioner - PICU

Position Summary

The pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is seeking an energetic, acute care pediatric nurse practitioner to join our growing team. Nurse practitioners at the main campus 48‑bed PICU work collaboratively with the medical team and the attending physicians to help care for high acuity, intensive care patients ages birth to 18 years old and their families. Phoenix Children’s Hospital is a level 1 trauma center and has robust programs for endocrinology, neurosurgery, hematology/oncology/BMT, liver transplant, nephrology, general surgery, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support (ECMO).

The PICU is a busy unit, seeing over 2,000 admissions a year. The PICU also has two 8‑bed satellite units that the nurse practitioners are responsible for helping to provide coverage in these units with an attending physician.

Applicants are required to have graduated from an acute care pediatric nurse practitioner program. We do accept new graduate pediatric nurse practitioners and prefer that new graduates have prior PICU experience as a registered nurse. Practitioners in the PICU work rotating shifts.

Location: Phoenix •
Shift: Mon-Fri, Days, 8 am-5 pm •
Category: Advanced Practice Clinicians •
Posting #: 978449 •
Employee Type: Full‑Time

• Conductes comprehensive health history, physical assessments and plans for infants, children and young adults with acute and chronic health conditions.
• Uses advanced assessment skills to manage a cohort of patients in collaboration with residents, fellows, and attending physicians.
• Orders and prescribes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions and performs other therapeutic or corrective measures to treat illness and improve health status.
• Formulates family centered plan of care during interprofessional rounds.
• Performs daily documentation and billing.
• Collaborates and coordinates care with interdisciplinary services.
• Performs critical care related procedures including intubations, central line placement, arterial line placement, lumbar punctures, and chest tubes.
• Uses the most up to date and evidence-based practice for plan of care and able to alter the plan according to family needs and effectiveness of plan.
• Serves as an educational resource to patients, families, and healthcare team.
• Participates in professional development opportunities.
• Participates in the professional development of other members of the healthcare team.
• Demonstrates commitment to patient safety and shared accountability of safe practice.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties, research, and education.

This position works in collaboration with the attending physicians and works within their scope of practice to provide excellent clinical care for patients. Plays a critical role in the patient family medical team. Professional who may practice in hospital’s inpatient and/or outpatient setting.

• Education:
  
  Master’s or Doctorate degree from an Accreditation Commission for Nursing (ACEN) and/or Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) accredited graduate school of nursing in Pediatric Acute care, Pediatric primary care or Family Medicine.
• Special
  
  Skills:
  
  Excellent interpersonal skills, strong verbal communication, and basic computer skills.
• Additional Requirements:
  
  Current BLS certification for Healthcare Provider from the American Heart Association or obtained by start date.
• Additional Requirements:
  
  Current State of Arizona certification as a Nurse Practitioner or obtained by start date.
• Additional Requirements:
  
  National board certification to match area of education or obtained by start date.

• Physical Requirement - Feeling (sensing textures and temperatures) - Constantly
• Physical Requirement - Fine Motor Skills (pinching, gripping, etc) - Constantly
• Physical Requirement - Hearing - Constantly
• Physical Requirement - Pushing/pulling - Constantly
• Physical Requirement - Reaching - Constantly
• Physical Requirement - Sitting - Occasionally
• Physical Requirement - Standing - Frequently
• Physical Requirement - Stooping/crouching/kneeling/crawling - Frequently
• Physical Requirement - Talking - Constantly
• Physical…