Advanced Practice Nurse or Physician Assistant- CVICU

TriHealth • Montgomery, OH

2d • Onsite

About The Position

As an Advanced Practice Provider in the TriHealth Critical Care department, you’ll be part of a highly skilled, collaborative critical care team staffed 24/7 by board certified intensivists, pulmonologists, and hospitalists. APPs play a key role in managing complex, rapidly changing patients—admissions, diagnostics, treatment adjustments, consult coordination, and family communication—while working with a full spectrum of specialty providers. If you’re looking to practice at the top of your license in a fast-paced environment that values advanced training, teamwork, and exceptional patient care, TriHealth’s Critical Care is an incredible place to grow your critical care career.

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Nursing
• Graduate from NP, CNS or midwife program
• Specialty certification in area of expertise
• Registered Nurse with APRN Licensure
• Demonstrated expertise in area of clinical specialization
• Professional membership in specialty nursing organization required within one year of start date
• 3-4 years experience Clinical in Nursing Nursing practice in geriatric, occupational health, or other applicable setting.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates and consults with the interdisciplinary healthcare team, the patient and family when diagnosing, prioritizing problems, and implementing interventions.
• Provides consultation and initiates referrals to other healthcare team members and promotes collaboration among other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team.
• Assists interdisciplinary team members, patients, and families in selecting therapies that integrate perspectives of cost and quality of benefits.
• Collaborates with other disciplines in teaching, consultation, management, and research activities to improve outcomes in nursing practice and enhance the healthcare environment.
• Provides effective leadership.
• Integrates analysis of cost and benefits in care decisions.
• Designs/Develops innovative solutions for patient care problems that utilize resource efficiency while maintaining or improving quality and advancing best practices.
• Provides leadership in the development and application of consensus derived protocols or evidence-based practice (EBP) guidelines in the clinical setting.
• Participates, as opportunities arise, in healthcare-related decision-making at the system, local, state, and national levels with an emphasis on improving patient outcomes.
• Serves in key roles by participating in/leading committees, councils, and administrative teams.
• Utilizes, participates in, and disseminates research, evidence-based practice, or quality improvement projects to enhance clinical practice and patient outcomes.
• May serve as primary or co-investigator, or member of the investigative team in conducting nursing or collaborative research.
• Critically evaluates existing practice based on current research findings and integrates changes into practice through an EBP project.
• Evaluates processes of care by serving a as leader or team member in relevant Quality Improvement projects.
• Promotes mentoring and education to nursing by serving as a Journal Club mentor and facilitates learning in critically appraising the literature.
• Provides education to patients, families, and healthcare providers to promote best practice.
• Serves as a teacher, mentor, role model to nurses in the promotion of nursing research, EBP.
• Serves as preceptor, role model and mentor to staff nurses and colleagues as well as nursing students.
• Teaches, coaches, and supports nurses and other healthcare professionals to advance the care of patients.
• Provides education to the patient and their family for health promotion including secondary prevention strategies.
• Collaborates in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of patient and staff educational needs.
• Ensures nursing practice is conducted in an ethical and legal manner.
• Abides by the Ohio Scope of Practice as an APRN.
• Provides safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care.
• Demonstrates the highest level of accountability for professional practice.
• Preserves the patient’s dignity.
• Serves as a patient advocate by promoting advanced directives and adherence to the patient's wishes.
• Contributes and promotes the discussions of end-of-life decisions and palliative care with the patient, family members, physician and the health care team as appropriate.
• At least 50% of position involves direct management of the patient’s and/or family’s care.
• Independently performs and documents a complete history and physical examination, including psychosocial assessment.
• Prescribes drugs and therapeutic devices consistent with the formulary under section 4723.50 of the Ohio Revised Code.
• Assesses for interactive and synergistic effects of multiple pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions.
• Orders laboratory and radiologic tests and interprets the results.
• Collaborates with physician(s) to plan to implement a comprehensive plan of care.
• Discusses patient’s care with family members.
• Performs duties per the Standard Care Arrangement.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• paid time off
• retirement plans
• tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level