Critical Care Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is committed to delivering exceptional patient-centered care with compassion, clinical excellence, innovation, and teamwork—advancing health and improving outcomes for patients, families, and our communities.

This Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant) position provides direct patient care through comprehensive assessment, physical diagnosis, and therapeutic management of high-acuity critically ill patients in the ICU setting. The APP will work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team including faculty, fellows, residents, and nursing staff to develop, implement, and coordinate individualized plans of care informed by current clinical guidelines, best practices, and patient-centered goals.

In addition to clinical care, the APP will play an active role in supporting a culture of education, peer mentoring, and professional development, helping to coach and guide learners, and contribute to ongoing quality and clinical excellence initiatives within the ICU environment.

This role is within the Department of Anesthesia in Critical Care, providing coverage across both the Neuro ICU and Medical ICU. Off-hour, weekend, and holiday coverage is required.

Required Qualifications Physician Assistant:

Master's degree required in Physician Assistant.
License required: Physician Assistant License, and Certificate 1 required: Basic Life Support
0-1 years related work experience required.
ARC-PA, NCCPA
American Heart Association - Basic Life Support Certificate & ACLS
Valid prescriptive authority from both the MA DPH-DCP and Federal DEA
Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.

Job Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Performs history and physical examinations, formulation of care plans, ordering and interpreting laboratory and diagnostic tests and provides education to patients and their families.
2. Document clinical encounters clearly, precisely and in a timely manner.
3. Coordinates the care of patients in order to provide safe, effective, efficient and timely patient centered care. Liaises between visiting nurses, clinical staff and consult services. Care plans and execution of those plans should encompass the entire service to tie the service together. Consults with physicians or surgeons regarding the care of patients for more complex diagnosis.
4. Acts as an educator and serves as a clinical resource for staff through consultation formal and informal education, review of literature and participation in seminars and conferences.
5. Works in a collaborative relationship with other health professional to determine health needs of patients and families. Demonstrates and role models an interdisciplinary collaborate approach to patient care.

Required Qualifications:

1. Master's degree in Nursing required.
2. License Nurse Practitioner License required., and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required.
3. 0-1 years related work experience required.
4. MA Board authorization to practice as an APRN NRSG
5. Valid prescriptive authority from both the MA DPH-DCP and Federal DEA
6. American Heart Association - Basic Life Support Certificate
7. Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience in a teaching hospital and speciality area expertise.

Competencies:

1. Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area.
2. Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues.
3. Independence of Action: Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction.
4. Written Communications: Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers.
5. Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
6. Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of