NPPA Neurocritical Care

Christiana Care is seeking a Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner to join our Neurocritical Care team! This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate with previous critical care experience. The selected candidate will work 80 hours every 2 weeks a combination of 12- hour shifts days and nights to include weekends and holidays rotation.

Our state of the art eighteen bed Neurocritical Care Intensive Care unit and six bed stepdown unit including 2 rooms with epilepsy monitoring capability are located on our Newark campus. The ideal Advanced Practice Clinician candidate will be comfortable working independently in collaboration with the neurocritical intensivist performing direct medical management utilizing approved protocols procedures and expert consultation for our adult neurocritical care patients. APCs on this team are involved in quality safety and experience improvement initiatives.

Why Choose Neurocritical Care at ChristianaCare

• Manage care of the critically ill patient collaboratively with other caregivers within established protocols guidelines and scope of practice
• Utilizes teaching/learning principles coupled with an expert clinical knowledge to promote and provide education to patients and their families
• Act as liaison for patients families and health professionals
• Perform procedures including lumbar puncture arterial catheterization and central venous catheterization
• Assess health status of the neurocritical care patient through complete physical examination and medical history
• Design individualized management plans in collaboration with physicians staff nurses and other health care
• Manage care plans and treat patients with acute ischemic stroke (s/p TPA mechanical thrombectomy malignant stroke) non-traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage Status epilepticus Meningitis/encephalitis post-surgical management of patients with CNS tumors and cerebrovascular interventions

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive Base Salary plus Annual Quality Incentive Bonus
• Generous CME Paid Time and Allowance
• Six weeks of Paid Time Off
• 12 weeks paid protected parental leave
• Opportunities for Career Growth
• 403(b) and Defined Contribution Plan Retirement Options with Employer Match

Position Qualifications

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner must be a graduate of an accredited program and be certified of eligible for certification.
• Physician Assistant must be a graduate of ARC-PA accredited program and be certified or eligible for certification by the NCCPA
• Licensed or license eligible for the state of DE
• Must have or be eligible to obtain prescriptive authority
• Previous critical care experience preferred
• BLS and ACLS certifications required

Headquartered in Wilmington Delaware ChristianaCare is one of the countrys most dynamic health care organizations! ChristianaCare includes an extensive network of primary care and outpatient services home health care urgent care centers three hospitals (1336 beds) a freestanding emergency department a Level I trauma center and a Level III neonatal intensive care unit a comprehensive stroke center and regional centers of excellence in heart and vascular care cancer care and womens health.

ChristianaCare is rated by Forbes as the 2nd best health system for diversity and inclusion and the 29th best health system to work for in the United States and by IDG Computerworld as one of the nations Best Places to Work in IT. ChristianaCare is rated by Healthgrades as one of Americas 50 Best Hospitals and continually ranked among the nations best by U.S. News & World Report Newsweek and other national quality ratings.

Living in and around Delaware offers varied and affordable housing options in DE PA MD or NJ. Connected by Amtrak and I 95 this region is a hub for excellent restaurants entertainment and sporting venues cultural events and some of the nations best colleges and universities. Our location puts you within 1-3 hours of four international airports major cities including Philadelphia New York City and Washington D.C. popular beach towns in MD DE and NJ and popular ski resorts in PA and NY.

Christiana Care Health System is an equal opportunity employer firmly committed to prohibiting discrimination whose staff is reflective of its community and considers qualified applicants for open positions without regard to race color sex religion national origin sexual orientation genetic information gender identity or expression age veteran status disability pregnancy citizenship status or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state or local law.

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