OHSU Clinical APP Associate​/APP - Peds CVICU

Department Overview

Located in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is offering an opportunity for a full-time Pediatric CVICU APP. Join a high-performing, collaborative Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) team where your expertise will make a life-saving difference every day.

• Deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality care in a fast-paced PICU environment
• Perform comprehensive patient assessments and develop evidence-based treatment plans
• Manage acute and chronic critical illness
• Interpret diagnostic studies and manage advanced therapies
• Prescribe and adjust medications with thoughtful risk assessment
• Provide anticipatory guidance to families and caregivers
• Maintain thorough, timely EMR documentation

This role is 100% clinically focused
, allowing you to concentrate fully on patient care excellence.

You are a pediatric-trained Advanced Practice Provider who:

• Has an active Oregon Medical License
• Has experience caring for pediatric patients in an intensive care setting
• Demonstrates sound clinical judgment under pressure
• Communicates clearly and compassionately with families and multidisciplinary teams
• Thrives in environments that require prioritization and decisive action
• Is comfortable managing multiple high-acuity patients simultaneously
• Is proficient with electronic medical records and clinical systems

You are dependable, professional, and committed to the highest standards of clinical and ethical practice.

• Focused Clinical Practice – No research or administrative requirements
• High-Impact Care – Directly influence outcomes for critically ill children
• Collaborative Environment – Structured handoffs and strong interdisciplinary support
• Mission-Driven Work – Serve children and families during their most vulnerable moments

This role involves active clinical engagement throughout each shift, including standing, walking, and performing fine motor clinical procedures. The physical demands are typical of an inpatient hospital environment and require full mobility and stamina appropriate for extended clinical coverage.

This role is structured to meet contract-defined work expectations 173 x 12 hour shifts per year, including weekday, weekends and holidays.

Clinical Activities (not related to assigned administrative, education, or research FTE teaching or research):

• Direct
  • Pediatric Critical Care patients
  • Independent and shared billing
  • Weekdays
  • Department specific activities:
    Assure the safe, efficient, high quality and customer oriented management of patient care to the pediatric critical care population, including but not limited to completing a comprehensive assessment of the patient’s status; developing, monitoring and revising, as appropriate, an evidence-based treatment plan that addresses diagnoses, patterns of disease, risk factors, and treatment alternatives; treat many common acute and chronic health problems;
    
    interpret diagnostic tests; prescribe and manage medications and other therapies; provide health teaching with an emphasis on anticipatory guidance and risks of complications of therapy
• Indirect (if applicable):
  Indirect patient care includes discharge planning, activities supporting direct patient care, including but not limited to EPIC in-basket management/coverage & MyChart messages, closing charts, reviewing results, phone calls, patient care coordination, caseload management, court or legal appearances related to work cases (e.g., subpoenas), care conferences, work group huddles, non-RVU generating patient care and non-billable patient care.
• All APPs are expected to support the clinical, education, and research mission of OHSU through routine clinical care that includes working with students, trainees, and patients participating in research, consistent with their role, scope of practice, and applicable contract and institutional policies.

Education:

Successful completion of a Master Degree in Nursing or Master of Science in Nursing in the specialty of Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP), or Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG ACNP) from an…