Advanced Practice Provider - Neurosurgery

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Children’s Minnesota is one of the largest pediatric health systems in the United States and the only health system in Minnesota to provide care exclusively to children, from before birth through young adulthood. An independent and not‑for‑profit system since 1924, Children’s Minnesota is one system serving kids throughout the Upper Midwest at two free‑standing hospitals, nine primary‑care clinics, multiple specialty clinics and seven rehabilitation sites.

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As a leader in pediatric neurosurgery in the region, the Children’s Minnesota Neurosurgery team provides high‑quality, comprehensive, and compassionate neurosurgical care to improve the lives of children and their families. The Neurosurgical team, comprised of five Neurosurgeons, five PAs, and one PNP, is committed to the constant pursuit of better care with adoption of the latest techniques, training, and technology. Commonly treated conditions include hydrocephalus, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, neurological tumors, head, spine, and peripheral nerve trauma, infections, craniosynostosis, fetal surgery, epilepsy, peripheral nerve disorders, and other congenital disorders.

The neurosurgical team works closely and collaboratively with critical care, neonatology, hospital medicine, hematology/oncology, trauma, neurology, epileptology, ENT, infectious disease, endocrine, neuroradiology, genetics, and additional subspecialty teams to provide the highest level of care for patients of all levels of complexity.

• Provide inpatient, outpatient, operative, and procedural care.
• Support all surgeons to ensure seamless surgical and patient care.
• Participate in call coverage, with a rotation of 1 in 7 weeknights and weekends at full staffing.
• Primary location for care is the Children’s Minnesota Minneapolis campus, with occasional travel to the Children’s Minnesota St. Paul campus. Intermittent travel to satellite clinic locations for outpatient clinics.
• The Children’s Neurosurgery team does not have fellows or residents.

• The Neurosurgery APP team is responsible for patient rounding throughout all units of the hospital including the PICU, NICU, neuroscience, oncology, and med/surg units.
• Perform patient examinations, diagnostic interpretation, and formulation of assessment and plan in collaboration with the neurosurgeons.
• Inpatient procedures performed include shunt taps, shunt interrogation and programming, nuclear medicine studies, drain management, drain removal, suturing, removal of staples and sutures, dressing changes, and wound care.
• Other inpatient responsibilities include evaluation of patients in the emergency room, consultations throughout all units of the hospital, and consultations for patients at outside institutions.

• The Neurosurgery APP team ensures First Assist coverage for all neurosurgeries and plays an integral role in assisting with patient positioning, draping, suctioning, hemostasis, irrigation, incisional closure, and dressing placement.
• Proficiency in operating under the microscope is required – training will be provided.

• Examine and manage new patient consults, postoperative follow‑ups, and acute concern visits independently in the clinic setting.
• Participate in tandem clinic with the neurosurgeon.
• Clinic procedures performed by the Neurosurgery APP include shunt reprogramming and interrogation, shunt taps, suturing, suture and staple removal, and wound care.
• Outpatient evaluations may require radiographic interpretation, recommendations for additional diagnostic testing, consultation/referral to other…