Critical Care Nurse Practitioner

Keck Hospital of USC is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to join its intensive care team, focusing on the management of critically ill and complex patients in intensive care and stepdown settings. This role involves performing physical exams, ordering diagnostics, prescribing interventions, and providing direct patient care services according to established protocols and evidence-based standards. The NP will contribute to patient care, research, teaching, and leadership within the organization and nursing profession.

Practice Info

• Work as a member of the intensive care team.
• Manage critically ill complex patients in an intensive care and stepdown care setting.
• Work alongside trainees (residents and fellows) as part of the ICU Team.
• Keck Hospital of USC is a 343-bed acute care hospital.
• As a leading academic medical center, hundreds of clinical trials are currently taking place at Keck Hospital and its affiliated research institutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage critically ill complex patients in an intensive care setting and stepdown.
• Conduct in-depth interviews with patients and/or family, construct comprehensive medical histories, perform initial and periodic physical examinations and explore patient's interpretation of health needs.
• Directly perform or order appropriate diagnostic studies and interpret finished results including lab studies, professional consults and approved diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
• Develop and implement long and short range treatment plans.
• Perform procedures such as obtaining specimens, performing injections, immunizations, lumbar punctures, skin biopsies, suturing, wound care establishing central access, emergency airways, insertion of A-lines, thoracentesis, paracentesis and management of conditions produced by trauma or infection.
• Write orders to increase, decrease or change medication, subject to checking and counter-signing by physician.
• Prescribe appropriate interventions and medications and provide direct patient care services in the ICU and stepdown settings, according to established protocols and utilizes evidence-based clinical practice standards.
• Respond to emergency codes (i.e.: RRTs and Code Blue alerts) when assigned to emergency response teams.

Compensation

• The hourly rate range for this position is $80.75 - $132.08.

Shift & Schedule

• Full Time 12 Hour Rotating Shifts.

Requirements

• Req Master's degree Graduate from an accredited school of Nursing (MSN).
• Req 5 years clinical nursing experience.
• Req 2 years minimum Critical Care Nurse Practitioner experience.
• Req 2 years minimum ICU/critical care nursing experience.
• Req Must be able to intubate patients (or willing to perform this function once trained) and manage critical situations and codes.
• Req Registered Nurse - RN (CA Board of Registered Nursing).
• Req Nurse Practitioner - NP (CA Board of Registered Nursing).
• Req Nurse Practitioner Furnisher (CA DCA) Current license to furnish medications in the State of California.
• Req DEA Certificate Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Certificate issued by the U.S. Department of Justice for Schedule II-V controlled substances.
• Req NP Board Certified Possession of National Board Certification in Nurse Practitioner area of specialty accredited by Accreditation Board of Specialty Nursing (ABSNC) or National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA). If work in Hospital/Acute Care Setting must have Certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) or Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) upon hire.
• Req Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider from American Heart Association.
• Req Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Healthcare Provider from American Heart Association - *ACLS as required by the NPs Job description for NPs in the Hospital/Acute Care Setting and Ambulatory Infusion Centers (*Required for Hospital/Acute & Infusion Center Clinic settings only).
• Req Fire Life Safety Training (LA City) If no card upon hire, one must be obtained within 30 days of hire and maintained by renewal before expiration date. (Required within LA City only).