Job Description

Join the University of Chicago Medicine as an Advanced Practice Provider for our MICU Department.

Sign on Bonus and Relocation Available

As an Advanced Practice Provider, you are responsible for comprehensive direct patient care management in the hospital setting, you will play a critical role in delivering comprehensive, evidence-based care to critically ill patients in a fast-paced academic medical center environment.

The Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) team provides specialized care for patients with complex and life-threatening conditions, including acute respiratory failure, ARDS, COPD exacerbations, asthma, septic shock, hypovolemic shock, cardiogenic shock, gastrointestinal bleeding, renal failure, altered mental status, and diabetic ketoacidosis. As part of UChicago Medicine's multidisciplinary critical care team, APPs collaborate closely with attending physicians, fellows, nurses, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and other specialists to deliver exceptional patient care.

In this role, you will provide direct management of critically ill patients in the MICU while participating in admissions, daily patient management, care coordination, and multidisciplinary rounds. APPs practice at the top of their license while working within a highly collaborative environment that values clinical excellence, professional development, and evidence-based practice. This position offers the opportunity to care for a diverse and medically complex patient population while contributing to innovative critical care delivery.

APP Job Summary:

The Nurse practitioner/physician assistant is an APP responsible for comprehensive direct patient care management. The APP manages a caseload of patients and exercises autonomous decision making in the assessment, diagnosis, and initiation of delegated medical treatments. The scope of practice also includes family support, teaching, staff education, consultation, and research.

Essential Job Functions

• Differentiates normal and abnormal variations for all body systems.
• Assesses patient and family adaptation, coping skills and the need for crisis or other intervention.
• Accurately interprets diagnostic tests.
• Analyzes multiple sources of data in making clinical judgments and in determining the effectiveness of a plan of care.
• Develops problem lists with associated differential diagnosis.
• Identifies educational needs of the patient and family and assists with teaching.
• Incorporates assessment findings into a plan to direct patient care.
• Formulates a plan of care in collaboration with the patient, family, physician, nursing staff and other member of the health care team which incorporates health care maintenance, discharge and follow-up care for patients on the cardiac surgery and vascular surgery inpatient services
• Plans and implements appropriate pharmacological therapies.
• Accurately and appropriately performs routine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques according to established protocols and standardized procedures for nurse practitioners.
• Initiates referrals based on patient and family need.
• Accurately presents and documents the database, impression and plan of care.
• Promotes, has knowledge of and utilizes appropriate patient care protocol relating to the physical, psychosocial and developmental needs of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Maintains formal and informal systems for information sharing, planning and problem solving with unit staff, other NP’s, medical staff and other nursing and hospital personnel.

Nurse Practitioner - Education and Experience Requirements:

• Advanced degree (or equivalent, if license received prior to July 1, 2001) from an accredited school/college of nursing required.
• Ability to obtain Illinois advanced practice nurse (APN) license by start date required.
• Current license as a Registered Nurse required.
• AANC certification as an ACNP and/or ANP-BC required.
• Minimum two years of critical care clinical nursing experience preferred.
• Previous ICU, MICU, or acute care experience strongly preferred.
• Experience caring for patients with respiratory failure, shock, sepsis, and other critical care diagnoses preferred.
• Bedside procedure experience preferred.

Physician Assistant - Education and Experience Requirements:

• Education: Completion of an accredited (physician assistant) educational program required.
• Licensure: Certification in ACLS and by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) and current and/or eligibility for: State of Illinois licensure / registration required
• ICU certification preferred.
• Previous ICU, MICU, or critical care experience preferred.
• Experience performing bedside procedures preferred.

Position Details

• Job Type: Full-Time (1.0FTE)
• Shift: Rotating
• Unit/Department: MICU
• CBA Code: Non-Union