Advanced Practice Provider, PICU

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago provides superior pediatric care in a setting that offers the latest benefits and innovations in medical technology, research and family-friendly design. As the largest pediatric provider in the region with a 140-year legacy of excellence, kids and their families are at the center of all we do. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is ranked in all 10 specialties by the U.S. News & World Report.

The Advance Practice Provider (APP) works collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to provide individualized ICU care. The APP will facilitate this by functioning as the frontline provider on the ICU team, obtaining history and physical assessments, ordering/interpreting labs, performing bedside procedures, formulating diagnoses and treatment plan, and providing family education.

Additional responsibilities in our urban tertiary care center include: ventilator management, vasopressor titration, ECMO and CRRT management, post-operative care (e.g. airway reconstruction, kidney/liver/intestinal transplants, spinal fusions), and in-hospital care of chronically ventilated children. The APP will independently attend hospital-wide rapid response calls.

Day, night, and weekend hours. Holiday coverage also required.

• 3 years of PICU RN experience preferred (APRN Candidates)
• All candidates are encouraged to have completed a PICU APP Clinical Rotation as part of their graduate education program
• Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Certification required (APRN Candidates)
• Licensure in the State of Illinois as an APRN is required.
• Experience as delineated in clinical privileges through credentialing by the Medical Staff Office.
• Basic Life Support certification and Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification required.
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills, basic computer skills, and strong verbal and written communication skills.

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) works within the multidisciplinary clinical team to provide individualized patient care through history and physical assessment, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, medication ordering, prescribing and management, formulating diagnoses and patient/family education. They promote evidenced based practice by conducting or participating in research and academic activities. They provide support to colleagues and staff to promote the professional development of the advanced practice profession at Lurie Children’s and in the community-at-large.

The role is unique to each division and in accordance with individual credentialing and privileging through the Medical Staff Office.

Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago offers an Advance Practice Provider (APP) transition into practice fellowship for all new graduate APPs. All new hire APPs, even those with experience, are invited to participate in the fellowship. The APP transition into practice fellowship is designed to provide a supportive structure and strategies to facilitate the transition from the academic to clinical setting for newly hired APPs and institution to institution transition for those with experience.

The first year of employment will consist of quarterly didactic sessions with integrated facilitator‑led peer‑supported transition sessions, structured mentorship, and precepted practice‑based learning with standardized competencies. APPs in the fellowship are hired as paid employees of the institution. The fellowship is designed to aid the development of well prepared, clinically competent, APPs as well as to provide support, build confidence and skills to develop a collaborative…