APP IRP Transplant

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago•Chicago, IL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) works within a multidisciplinary clinical team to provide individualized patient care through history and physical assessment, diagnostic testing, medication management, diagnosis, and patient and family education. The role supports evidence-based practice through research and academic activities and promotes professional development for colleagues and staff. Responsibilities and scope are specific to the division and subject to credentialing and privileging through the Medical Staff Office. Within Lurie Children’s Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Program, the APP follows patients across inpatient and outpatient care. The program uses medical, surgical, and nutritional rehabilitation strategies to avoid transplantation when possible for children with improperly functioning bowel. The APP independently manages patients in the home parenteral nutrition program, consults on the GI service and hospital floors including ICUs, sees patients independently in clinic and collaboratively in multidisciplinary clinics, and coordinates care with subspecialists. Care includes management of TPN, enteral nutrition, central venous catheters, enteral feeding tubes, medications, and pre- and post-operative transplant care. This is a part-time salaried role of approximately 20 hours per week at the main hospital. The role may include evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. Newly hired APPs are invited to participate in the institution’s paid transition-into-practice fellowship, which includes quarterly didactic and peer-supported sessions, structured mentorship, and precepted practice-based learning with standardized competencies.

Requirements

Master’s degree or higher from an accredited school appropriate for certification as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant.
Licensure in the State of Illinois as an APRN or PA is required.
Clinical privileges through Medical Staff Office credentialing must be achieved within 90 days of hire.
Basic Life Support certification is required.
Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills, basic computer skills, and strong verbal and written communication skills.
Practice under the direction of advanced practice provider or physician providers until fully credentialed and privileged.

Nice To Haves

Two years of relevant clinical experience is preferred.
Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification and/or other specialty certification is required in some areas within six months of employment.
Other certification required for the specialty area.

Responsibilities

Provide expert clinical care, education, consultation, advocacy, research, leadership, and mentorship.
Manage primary, acute, and chronic health problems through comprehensive history and physical examination, assessment, and diagnosis; this may include palliative and end-of-life care.
Order, perform, and interpret diagnostic and therapeutic tests and procedures.
Order and prescribe pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions and perform other therapeutic or corrective measures.
Follow intestinal rehabilitation and transplant patients across inpatient and outpatient settings.
Independently manage patients in the home parenteral nutrition program.
Consult on the GI service and hospital floors, including ICUs, to help manage intestinal rehabilitation patients.
Manage TPN, enteral nutrition, central venous catheters, enteral feeding tubes, medications, and pre- and post-operative transplant care.
See patients independently in clinic and collaboratively in multidisciplinary team clinics.
Coordinate care among varied subspecialists and collaborate with the medical team to deliver evidence-based care and establish best practices.
Promote the advancement of the APP profession at Lurie Children’s and in the community, potentially through publication, professional organizations, and educational support for nursing staff.
Participate in research design, implementation, and interpretation.
Meet the Medical Staff’s Allied Health Practitioners core measures of performance.
Perform job functions in accordance with service principles focused on innovation, service excellence, teamwork, and high-quality care.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Employer-paid group term life and disability insurance
Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Paid holidays
Paid parental leave
403(b) with a 5% employer match
Voluntary supplemental life, AD&D, and disability coverage
Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity coverage
Tuition assistance
Student loan servicing and support
Adoption benefits
Backup childcare and eldercare
Employee Assistance Program and specialized behavioral health services and resources
Discount on services at Lurie Children’s facilities
Discount purchasing program
Paid APP transition-into-practice fellowship