The critical care nurse practitioner (NP) works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The critical care NP generally functions as an intensivist within a designated intensive care unit and manages the critical care aspects of the assigned patient's intensive care stay from admission to transfer. The critical care NP has a strong foundation in evidenced based practice and education and has a responsibility for ensuring adherence to critical care treatments, protocols and ensures an environment of safe quality care. The NP demonstrates an advanced level of medical and nursing knowledge, clinical and technical competence, sound clinical judgment, professional communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and is responsible for professional development and competency validation.
Assessment of Health Statutus: Performs and documents in the medical record a complete history and physical examination for acute and complex chronically ill patients.
Diagnosis: Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnosis of acute and complex chronic conditions.
Formulates Plan of Care: Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis, and formulates and documents a plan of care to address immediate critical care needs.
Implements and modifies plan of care: Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic and surgical, needed to achieve expected outcomes.
Communication and Collaboration: Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team.
Documentation: Documents/dictates key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and/or clinic note where applicable. (h&p, daily progress notes, plan of care, problem lists, procedure notes, acute event note, discharge summaries in medical record per specific patient unit of service, death summary).
Professional Practice: Demonstrates Professional Practice behaviors including: preceptor /mentoring, education and instruction of students, nursing staff, nurses, graduate and novice nurse practitioners.
Current Alabama RN and NP license. Current BLS or training provided upon hire.
Prefer one year experience in occupational medicine, emergency medicine, or family practice.
Must be flexible, assertive, persuasive, and demonstrate effective diagnostic problem solving skills. Be self-motivated to deliver the highest quality medical care; able to effectively communicate with people from all socioeconomic backgrounds; able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients, insurance carriers, case managers, physicians, hospital management and administrative staff, as well as clinical and support staff. Must demonstrate clear evidence of integrity and the highest standards of ethical conduct; willingness to receive and respond appropriate to performance reviews and constructive criticism.
