Nurse Practitioner Acute CT
About The Position
The Nurse Practitioner Acute CT serves as a first assistant in cardiac and vascular surgical procedures and provides inpatient, emergency consultation, and cardiovascular critical care services. The role collaborates with attending physicians and teams in general cardiology, interventional cardiology, and electrophysiology to care for patients on the General Floor, in the Surgical ICU, and in the Cardiovascular Critical Care Unit, including patients following open surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention. The position supports individualized surgical care before, during, and after procedures, including patient positioning and preparation, tissue retraction, hemostasis, incision closure, and other tasks directed by the surgeon. The Nurse Practitioner evaluates and implements plans of care within the scope of licensure, educates patients and families, communicates care instructions, and documents treatment in the medical record. The role requires adherence to applicable laws, regulations, institutional policies, operating-room practices, and asepsis and infection-control principles.
Responsibilities
- Serve as first assistant during cardiac and vascular surgical procedures, supporting patient safety and outcomes.
- Collaborate with attending physicians to provide care on the General Floor and in the Surgical ICU, and independently evaluate inpatient and Emergency Room consultations.
- Manage and monitor patients in the Cardiovascular Critical Care Unit after open surgery or percutaneous coronary intervention in collaboration with critical care attendings and cardiology colleagues.
- Educate and support patients and their families.
- Assist physicians with individualized surgical care before, during, and after surgery, including positioning, prepping, and draping patients as directed.
- Assist the surgeon during cases by retracting tissue, maintaining hemostasis, using surgical instruments and electrocautery as directed, and helping protect structures that should not be ligated.
- Assist with incision closure, including tying off bleeders, applying sutures, and dressing wounds, and perform other tasks required by the surgeon for the procedure.
- Follow operating-room etiquette, understand instruments relevant to each case, and work effectively with the operative team.
- Comply with statutes, regulations, and institutional policies relevant to the first-assistant role.
- Apply asepsis and infection-control principles.
- Recognize changes in patient condition, identify emergencies or surgical hazards, and initiate timely preventive or corrective measures.
- Assist with resuscitation during cardiac arrest or other life-threatening operating-room events.
- Prepare for cases by reviewing schedules and posting slips and verifying the availability of equipment, patient images, and other necessary information.
- Develop and implement nursing plans of care within the scope of licensure.
- Communicate physician-prescribed care plans, test results, specialized test and treatment scheduling, prescription instructions, and other patient education.
- Document treatment appropriately in the medical record.
Benefits
- Medical plan
- Prescription drug coverage and in-house employee pharmacy
- Dental plan
- Vision plan
- Flexible Spending Account, including healthcare and dependent care FSAs
- Retirement Savings and Investment Plan
- Basic group term life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Supplemental group term life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Long-term disability benefits
- Short-term disability benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Commuter transit and parking
- Voluntary legal services
- Voluntary accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
- Voluntary identity theft insurance
- Voluntary pet insurance
- Paid Time-Off Program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
