Advanced Practice Provider - Pulmonary & Critical Care​/Nights

Position: Advanced Practice Provider - Pulmonary & Critical Care - Days/Nights
VCU Health System's Internal Medicine – Pulmonary/Critical Care is seeking a full time Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant (Advanced Practice Provider (APP) located in the Medical Respiratory ICU (MRICU). Advanced provider skills and judgment are necessary for this position. The APP will function as an essential member of a multidisciplinary team to provide ongoing medical critical care consultative services and/or direct patient care to critically ill adult inpatients including patients with acute and chronic respiratory failure and/or critically ill or complex medical patients.

Hours will include days, evenings, nights, weekends and holidays.
Responsibilities:
Ability to make autonomous clinical judgments and independently implement management plans with minimal physician supervision. Manage patients with acute and chronic respiratory failure, pulmonary diseases (including but not limited to: management of mechanical ventilation, tracheostomies, infections, and obstructive lung disease), ordering and interpretation of diagnostic tests and procedures, and managing other critically ill patients in an ICU setting (including but not limited to: septic shock, hemorrhagic shock, liver failure, renal failure, acute respiratory failure, and multiple organ failure).

Demonstrate ability to work within a multidisciplinary team (physicians, nurses, RT, RD, Pharm D etc...) to consult on and care for critically ill patients on a medical ICU service.
The Nurse Practitioner job demonstrates a high level of expertise in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of the complex responses of individuals, families, or communities to actual or potential health problems, prevention of illness and injury, maintenance of wellness, and provision of comfort. This role assists the health care team with the prevention of illness and injury, maintenance of wellness, and provision of comfort.
The Nurse Practitioner job continues to perform many of the same interventions used in basic nursing practice. The difference in this practice relates to a greater depth and breadth of knowledge, a greater degree of synthesis of data, and complexity of skills and intervention. ANA’s Scope and Standards of Advanced Practice Registered Nursing (1996).
** Essential Job Functions
** Performance Expectation:
Pertains to Staff in Licensed Nursing Positions ONLY Employee must complete 15 contact hours of Continuing Nursing Education during this evaluation cycle.

Failure to achieve the required number of contact hours will result in the employee ineligible to receive an overall performance rating above "Fully Meets".Performance Expectation:
Expert Coaching & Guidance The APN-Practitioner is a strong proponent of coaching and guidance as evidenced by:

Planning and implementing steps to resolve problems affecting patient care quality and evaluates results.

Role modeling patient advocacy.

Challenging and adapting systems to maximize the benefits of patient care.

Demonstrates advanced assessment skills in assessment, management of disease, and treatment-related side effects.

Recommending goals and interventions for medical and nursing plan of care plans based on current literature.

Promoting individual involvement and development of others.

Demonstrating expert knowledge to coordinate patient care across the continuum of services: inpatient, ambulatory, and home health through the patient’s trajectory of illness.

Developing and evaluating educational materials and teaching interventions for staff, patients/caregivers, and the community.

Fostering skill development of others

Assessment, diagnosis, and monitoring to improve the skills of students and staff.

Mentoring the APN’s role in the health system to promote quality patient outcomes.

Performance Expectation:
Consultation The APN-Practitioner maintains a therapeutic relationship with the patients, caregivers, and staff throughout the health care continuum.

Consultation and support is evidenced by:

The ability to organize and facilitate patient support groups as needed.

Serving as a liaison, translator and negotiator for staff, patients and families.

Utilizing experiences and resources to staff regarding…