Critical Care - Advanced Practice Provider

Overview

Carle Health is seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant to join our growing Critical Care team at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois. The Critical Care APP works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary healthcare team, providing care in critical care settings including trauma, neuro, med/surg, and cardiovascular ICUs. The APP demonstrates medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, interpersonal communication skills, and timely, compliant documentation, and is responsible for professional development and competency validation.

• Collaboration with dedicated Critical Care physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, Clinical Pharmacists, and resident physicians
• Critical Care Service covers 48 ICU beds including cardiac, trauma, medical, surgical, and neuro
• Assist with hospital codes alongside Critical Care physicians and the code team
• Opportunity to obtain independent credentialing in ICU procedures such as PICC placement, arterial line, and central lines as well as opportunities for intubation, paracentesis, and chest‑tube placement
• State‑of‑the‑art ICU in Carle’s 390,000‑square‑foot patient tower
• Mix of weekday/night/evening and weekend shifts and holiday rotation
• Collaboration with Critical Care physicians in the management of complex critically ill patients with multi‑organ dysfunction/failure, poly‑trauma, TBI, complex stroke, and SAH
• Assist with management of patients receiving CRRT/CVVH and targeted temperature management
• Participation in monthly CCT M&M, CVICU, and CCU RN education/training

• Master’s degree with Acute Care specialty preferred; FNP considered with prior ICU provider experience
• Physician Assistant with prior ICU experience
• 1–2 years of APP experience preferred
• Consideration for nursing ICU/ED experience

• Growing organizational research opportunities
• Quality and Practice Committee membership within Critical Care Service and organizationally
• Access to state‑of‑the‑art sim‑lab for procedural training

• Current Illinois registered nurse license and advanced practice nurse licensure or physician assistant licensure
• BLS and ACLS certification
• Must satisfactorily complete all continuing education, including NIH Stroke Scale certification and stroke education required for providers at Comprehensive Stroke Center

The compensation range for this position is $60.72–$78.94/hour. This represents a good‑faith minimum and maximum range for the role at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, qualifications, location, training, licenses, shifts worked, and compensation model. Carle Health offers a comprehensive benefits package for team members and providers.

To learn more, visit careers.carlehealth.org/benefits.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, or basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Carle Health participates in E‑Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee’s Form I‑9 to confirm work authorization.