NP​/PA - 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 step‑down 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.

• 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

• 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

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner must be a graduate of an accredited program and be certified or eligible for certification.
• Physician Assistant must be a graduate of an 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.

Annual Compensation Range $ - $ This pay rate/range represents Christiana Care's good faith and reasonable estimate of compensation at the time of posting. The actual salary within this range offered to a successful candidate will depend on individual factors including without limitation skills, relevant experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements.

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.