NP​/PA: Neurocritical Care

Job Overview

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 two weeks, a combination of 12‑hour shifts (days and nights), including weekends and holiday rotations. Our state‑of‑the‑art neurocritical care intensive care unit has 18 beds, and the step‑down unit has 6 beds including 2 rooms with epilepsy monitoring capability, located on our Newark campus.

• Work independently in collaboration with the neuro‑intensivist to perform direct medical management utilizing approved protocols, procedures, and expert consultation for adult neuro‑critical care patients.
• Be 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.
• Utilize teaching and learning principles coupled with 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 neuro‑critical care patient through complete physical examination and medical history.
• Design individualized management plans in collaboration with physicians, staff nurses, and other health care staff.
• 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 and 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 plus paid time off.
• Twelve weeks paid protected parental leave.
• 403(b) and defined contribution plan retirement options with employer match.
• Opportunities for career growth.

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner: graduate of an accredited program and certified or eligible for certification.
• Physician Assistant: graduate of an ARC‑PA accredited program and certified or eligible for certification by the NCCPA.
• Licensed or license eligible in the state of Delaware.
• Must have or be eligible to obtain prescriptive authority.
• Previous critical care experience preferred.
• BLS and ACLS certifications required.

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.