Critical Care Nurse Practitioner
Job Location:
Job Location:
Cumming, GA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
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Posted on:
Yesterday
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Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
JOB OVERVIEW
- Profession: Nurse Practitioner
- Specialty: NP - Critical Care
- Job Type: Locum Tenens
- Location: Cumming Georgia
- Facility: Northside Hospital Forsyth
- Health System: Northside
- Coverage Period: Sep 01 2026 Nov 16 2026
- Shift Schedule: Days 12-hour shifts
- Hours Per Shift: 12
- Number of Positions: 1
- Travel Lodging and Malpractice Insurance: Covered
- Average Daily Volume: 10-15 ICU patients per APP
- Case Mix: Multi-specialty medical-surgical ICU
- Rounding: Included (multi-disciplinary rounds each shift)
- EMR System: Cerner
- Support Staff Available: ICU nursing staff attending physicians
- Hospital Privileges Required: Yes
- Temporary Privileges Available: Yes
- Central line insertions (CVLs vascaths introducers)
- Arterial line insertions
- Board: Acute Care Certified (if NP candidate)
- Licenses: Valid national and state licensure (ACNP or PA)
- Experience: Minimum 1-2 years as an APP in an ICU setting
- Other Qualifications: Case logs will be requested during credentialing
- Manage critically-ill patients in a high-acuity ICU setting with an APP-to-patient ratio of 10-15 patients per APP (attending MD available)
- Collaborate with attending MDs to develop plan of care and communicate dynamic changes throughout shift
- Conduct ongoing patient assessments and implement appropriate interventions
- Perform order entry in Cerner EMR and document History and Physicals Consultations Event/Follow-up Notes and Procedure Notes
- Perform invasive procedures including central line and arterial line insertions per hospital MSO credentialing
