MSN for Nurse Practitioners or BS for Physician Assistants

1 yr

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) or Physician Assistant-Certified (PA-C) with appropriate certification

The physical requirements for this position include regularly sitting, standing, walking, with some pushing, pulling, and/or lifting objects weighing up to 10lbs and occasional pushing, pulling, and/or lifting objects up to 50lbs.

40 hours per week; shifts as assigned

The abdominal transplant APP works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team.

The abdominal transplant APP generally functions to provide pre- and post-operative transplant care in both inpatient and outpatient settings. This includes all levels of care where the APP manages the critical care aspects of the assigned patients' intensive care stay from admission to transfer to discharge back to the clinic. The abdominal transplant APP has a strong foundation in evidenced based practice and education and ensuring an environment of safe quality care.

The APP demonstrates an advanced level of medical and nursing knowledge, clinical and technical competency, sound clinical judgment, professionalism as it relates to interpersonal and general communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and takes responsibility for ongoing professional development and competency validation.

N/A

Previous experience working in the ICU or ED preferred. For Nurse Practitioner applicants, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner certification is preferred.

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