Advanced Practice Provider

Department

BSD PED - Emergency Medicine

As a Level 1 Trauma Center, the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital provides immediate, highly specialized pediatric emergency services, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The state-of-the-art pediatric emergency facility is the newest in Chicago. It features the latest diagnostic and treatment equipment to provide comprehensive emergency care. Through the emergency department, physicians and nurse practitioners with the Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine care for acutely ill or injured children and teens.

Our emergency department is the only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center on the South Side of Chicago and treats more than 31,000 patients each year, including hundreds with complex trauma injuries. Fully equipped air medical transport is also available for critically injured patients in surrounding areas. In addition to significant and far-reaching clinical impact in the region, Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) is also an integral part of an academic institution dedicated to next-generation physician leaders, as well as scientific discoveries through basic, translational and clinical research.

Nocturnal role providing direct comprehensive health care to pediatric patients in the Comer Children’s Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department. Works collaboratively within the Emergency Department care team using advanced clinical skills to assess and manage lower acuity patients in a Pediatric Fast Track treatment setting.

• Perform the clinical assessment, evaluation, tests, treatments, therapies, medical management and other direct care for patients in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

• Assume accountability for direct patient care, which includes obtaining medical history, performing physical assessments, ordering and interpreting appropriate diagnostic tests, writing discharge orders, and prescribing appropriate medications as set forth in delegation of prescriptive authority. Patient care may also include screening patients to determine the need for hospital admission and assume responsibility for developing therapeutic relationships with patients.

• Collaborate with and act as liaison among the nurse, patient, family, physician, and community resources for coordination of patient care.

• Actively pursues required knowledge and skills for professional development.
  
  Identifyandparticipatein quality assurance issues on the unit. Act as a resource for clinical skills to staff on or off the unit.

• May participate in teaching students and residents in techniques and procedures which are unique to specific clinical setting.

• Practices specific and invasive procedure privileges are detailed in eachAPPs Delineation of Privileges.

• Designs patient education programs that include information required to make informed health care and treatment decisions.

• Develops diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions needed to achieve the goals and outcomes of the patient’s plan of care.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree from an accredited school/college.

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through a combination of education and a minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience in a related job discipline.

Current and/or eligible for State of Illinois licensure/registration required. Eligibility to be privileged and credentialed through the Medical Staff Office (MSO).

- State of Illinois

• An advanced degree from an accredited school/college of nursing or completion of an accredited Physician Assistant educational program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc.

• Master’s of Science in Nursing.

• Background working in a Pediatric Level 1 Trauma ER.

• Current and/or eligibility for State of Illinois RN and APN licensure/registration.

• Must be certified as a Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurse’s Credentialing Center or…