Vascular Surgery, Rotating

UChicago Medicine•Chicago, IL

8d•Onsite

About The Position

UChicago Medicine is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) for its Cardiac/Vascular Surgery Department, a world-class academic healthcare system. The Heart and Vascular Center specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of heart conditions and diseases, with a team of leaders in cardiology, cardiac surgery, robotic surgery, and vascular surgery and research. As an APP, you will provide comprehensive direct patient care management in the hospital setting, utilizing advanced assessment skills and clinical therapeutics to evaluate, diagnose, and manage critically ill patients. This includes ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, therapeutic interventions, and prescribing pharmacological agents. The APP maintains continuity of patient care through follow-up, monitoring progress, and modifying care plans for both cardiac and vascular surgery inpatients. The role requires advanced expertise in caring for various cardiac surgery patients, including those with complex valve disease, coronary artery disease, aortic disorders, and advanced heart failure requiring transplant or LVAD placement. The Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant manages a caseload of patients, exercising autonomous decision-making in assessment, diagnosis, and initiation of delegated medical treatments. The scope of practice also encompasses family support, teaching, staff education, consultation, and research. APPs provide comprehensive care in the cardiac and vascular surgery ICU and stepdown units, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, and applying a holistic and comprehensive approach to patient care.

Requirements

For Nurse Practitioner: Advanced degree (or equivalent, if license received prior to July 1, 2001) from an accredited school/college of nursing required.
For Nurse Practitioner: Ability to obtain Illinois advanced practice nurse (APN) license by start date required.
For Nurse Practitioner: Current license as a Registered Nurse required.
For Nurse Practitioner: AANC certification as an ACNP and/or ANP-BC required.
For Physician Assistant: Completion of an accredited (physician assistant) educational program required.
For Physician Assistant: Certification in ACLS and by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) required.
For Physician Assistant: Current and/or eligibility for State of Illinois licensure / registration required.
For Physician Assistant: ICU Certification Required.

Nice To Haves

For Nurse Practitioner: Minimum two years of critical care clinical nursing experience with demonstrated clinical competence in patient care, teaching and management of patients with critical illness, and knowledge about clinical aspects of critical care including protocol therapy preferred.
For Physician Assistant: ICU experience highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive direct patient care management in the hospital setting.
Utilize advanced assessment skills and knowledge of clinical therapeutics to evaluate, diagnose and manage critically ill patients.
Order and interpret appropriate diagnostic tests, therapeutic interventions and prescribe pharmacological agents as necessary.
Maintain continuity of patient care through patient follow-up, monitoring of patient progress and modifying plan of care as necessary for both cardiac surgery and vascular surgery inpatients.
Apply knowledge of new technology and resources demonstrating advanced or specialized expertise in caring for a variety of cardiac surgery patients including those with complex valve disease, coronary artery disease, disorders of the aorta, advanced heart failure requiring heart transplant or left ventricular assist device placement.
Manage a caseload of patients and exercise autonomous decision making in the assessment, diagnosis, and initiation of delegated medical treatments.
Provide family support, teaching, staff education, consultation, and research.
Provide comprehensive care to patients in the inpatient settings cared for by the APPs of the cardiac and vascular surgery ICU and stepdown units.
Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, using advanced clinical skills to manage a caseload of patients.
Assess, diagnose, initiate delegated medical treatments, perform independent nursing interventions, and evaluate care.
Provide a model of care that is shaped by theory, expanded by science, research and reflective practice and is identified by a holistic and comprehensive approach to the patients.
Differentiate normal and abnormal variations for all body systems.
Assess patient and family adaptation, coping skills and the need for crisis or other intervention.
Accurately interpret diagnostic tests.
Analyze multiple sources of data in making clinical judgments and in determining the effectiveness of a plan of care.
Develop problem lists with associated differential diagnosis.
Identify educational needs of the patient and family and assist with teaching.
Incorporate assessment findings into a plan to direct patient care.
Formulate 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.
Plan and implement appropriate pharmacological therapies.
Accurately and appropriately perform routine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques according to established protocols and standardized procedures for nurse practitioners.
Initiate referrals based on patient and family need.
Accurately present and document the database, impression and plan of care.
Promote, have knowledge of and utilize appropriate patient care protocol relating to the physical, psychosocial and developmental needs of neonatal, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
Maintain 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.