Physician Assistant - Critical Care

Join our expanding care-team of 7 anesthesia critical care physicians and 18 APPs at Tampa General Hospital, a level 1 trauma facility! This is a day shift opportunity on our highly collaborative team working 13 shifts/month. A master's degree in nursing is required, board certified ACNP or PA required. Minimum 2 years of practice experience as critical care APRN/PA preferred.

Clinical responsibilities include:

• Work autonomously and multitask within the critical care team in assessing, examining and providing care to critically ill patients in the ICU
• Manage medical and surgical (including vascular, thoracic, burn, and cardiac) patients 
• Provides emergent and urgent care to patients in critical condition
• Performs history and physical examination of patients
• Writes orders and interprets laboratory data and radiological tests
• Monitors patient status and response to treatments
• Documents findings in the ICU medical record
• Recommends and initiates appropriate therapeutic interventions
• Performs procedures, such as but not limited to, intubation, bronchoscopy, central line placement, hemodialysis catheter placement, chest tube insertion, thoracentesis and paracentesis
• Commit to excellence in clinical service and demonstrate problem-solving abilities necessary to best serve our patients