Advanced Practice Professional - Critical Care Medicine Step-Down
Core
Provides high-quality, patient-centered care as an Advanced Practice Professional (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) in critical care and step-down settings, managing comprehensive care plans, diagnostics, and emergency interventions for inpatients.
Role type
Advanced Practice Professional (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant)
Builds
Patient care plans, diagnostic evaluations, and emergency interventions for critical care patients
Domain
Healthcare / Critical Care Medicine
Required skills
Critical care assessment, diagnostic reasoning, emergency care initiation, care plan development, interdisciplinary collaboration, patient education, clinical documentation, outcome measure collection
Preferred skills
Acute care experience, Master's degree, Critical care experience
Technologies
Medical equipment, Clinical guidelines, Electronic medical records
Responsibilities
Manages comprehensive care for inpatient/critical care patients, completes daily rounds and integrated assessments, orders tests and consults, performs diagnostic tests, facilitates patient discharge or transfer, identifies unstable patient situations, initiates emergency care, documents care plans and evaluations, provides education to staff and patients, participates in clinical trials and research, reviews critical care data to recommend changes.
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC