Advanced Practice Clinician - ICU

Become part of the Beebe team - an inclusive team positioned in a vibrant, coastal community. Enjoy a fulfilling career as you support the health of our patients and a team focused on excellence.

About the opportunity

This role will be a day / night hybrid role consisting of 14 twelve hours shifts per month.  It will be primarily day sift coverage but will be expected to cover the night shift (7pm-7am) as needed.

This individual provides direct patient care as the Center's Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner according to established protocols, policies, procedures, and accepted standards of care. Functions within approved scope and credentials as approved by Beebe Medical Center credentialing committee. Follow established nursing standards, procedures, and practices, and gives specific patient care directions to nursing and other staff.

Responsibilities

Partners with Attending to provide medical and surgical management for critical-care service.

Critical-care duties include managing the comprehensive care of acutely and chronically critically ill or injured adult patients in collaboration with the intensivist physician on duty (or on-call).

Advanced skills of comprehensive airway management

Invasive procedures to include central lines, arterial lines, tube thoracostomy, dialysis catheters

Selection, implementation, management, and titration of vasoactive drugs, insulin infusions, sedation, and analgesia.

The above listed critical-care duties require that this position must be certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) or Physician Assistant.

Other duties as assigned.

About Beebe Healthcare

• Serving Sussex County for 106 years.
• 210-bed, multi-specialty hospital with several outpatient practices and ancillary facilities.
• Over the past 2 years, Beebe has expanded services to meet the needs of the growing community with the opening of a free-standing ER, a state-of-the-art Surgical Hospital, a Cancer Center, a Center for Breast Health, and a Center for Weight Loss and Bariatric Surgery.
• Specialty services include cardiac surgery, interventional cardiology, cancer center with radiation, da Vinci Xi robot, 256-slice CT, 3.0T MRI, PET Scan, 3D mammography, hyperbaric chambers

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