Neuroscience Advanced Practice Provider

Job Description
Join a multifaceted team that covers neurosurgery, neurocritical care, and elective neurosurgery cases.Primary role as a neurocritical care Advanced Practice Practitioner working six (6) 13-hour days shifts in a two-week pay period.
Role may expand to include night coverage as the program grows.
Advanced Practice Practitioner will be trained to cover all aspects of the neuroscience team.
Will have the opportunity to cross cover other APP lead service lines.
Performs routine and expanded job descriptions as listed in the provider's delegation agreement on file with the Maryland Board of Physicians or Maryland Board of Nursing. Under the direction of a physician, the APP will:
Provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventivehealth care services to critically ill patients.
Obtain medical histories, examines patients, rounds daily,orders and interprets tests, makes initial diagnoses, and orders treatments.
Communicate effectively with attending physicians, other medical teams, team members, and patients and their families.
Administer therapeutic procedures such as placement of intracranial monitoring systems, extraventricular drains, VP shunt taps, suturing, and woundcare.
Instructs and counsels patients and families.
May first assist in the operating room when necessary.
Demonstrates competence and skill in required tasks and procedures.Demonstrates knowledge of and competency in required subspecialty.
Completes at least 50 hours of Category I CME every two years. Complete 32 hours of trauma related CME and 16 hours of stroke related CME.
Performs according to Maryland Board of Physician or Board of Nursing standards and expanded job description procedural protocols.
Facilitates excellence in quality assurance and the delivery of patient care as part of our High Reliability Organization.Provides optimal quality of patient care while following safety guidelines,
Maintains a procedurecomplication rate less than the national average.
Contributes to cohesive group relations;
uses open communicationto resolve problems in and between departments.
Demonstrates commitment to professional department and organizational core values.