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Cleveland Clinic

Non-profit medical center delivering care

Advanced Practice Provider - Acute Care NP/PA, Transplant Critical Care

Advanced Practice ProvidersConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWeston, FL, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Current licensure as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in Florida.
  • Nurse Practitioners must possess AGACNP-BC, ACNP, or equivalent acute care certification.
  • Current national certification through AANP, ANCC, or NCCPA.
  • Basic Life Support certification through the American Heart Association is required.
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification through the American Heart Association is required or may be required based on the work setting.
  • Current Advanced Practice Registered Nurse licensure, including prescriptive authority certification when applicable, is required for APRNs.
  • Physician Assistants must hold current NCCPA certification, Florida PA-C licensure, a Physician Supervision Agreement or signed addendum, and CCF Credentialing Board privileges.
  • Excellent analytical, critical-thinking, clinical decision-making, and advanced assessment and diagnosis skills are required.
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
  • Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
  • Ability to use the electronic medical record.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated competency in managing complex patients and commitment to quality improvement, patient safety, evidence-based practice, compassion, professionalism, and excellent patient care.
  • Ability to walk and stand for long periods, perform physical examinations requiring manual dexterity and eye-hand coordination, and occasionally lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
  • Ability to comply with required personal protective equipment, influenza vaccination or approved exemption, controlled-substance testing, and applicable Florida background-screening requirements.
  • APRN candidates must be graduates of an accredited graduate nursing program.
  • PA candidates must be graduates of an A.R.C.-approved Physician Assistant program.

Responsibilities

  • Perform comprehensive histories and physical examinations on critically ill adult patients.
  • Formulate diagnoses, develop treatment plans, and provide ongoing management of complex medical conditions.
  • Order, interpret, and act upon laboratory, radiologic, cardiographic, and other diagnostic studies.
  • Assess and manage preoperative and postoperative transplant recipients in the intensive care unit.
  • Collaborate with transplant physicians regarding patient status, graft function, and postoperative recovery.
  • Monitor for graft dysfunction, rejection, ischemia-reperfusion injury, and transplant-related complications.
  • Manage immunosuppressive medication regimens and monitor medication-related toxicities.
  • Evaluate and manage infectious complications in immunocompromised transplant recipients.
  • Interpret transplant-specific laboratory testing, including therapeutic drug monitoring, donor-specific antibodies, and graft-function assessments.
  • Develop and implement evidence-based treatment plans for hemodynamic instability, respiratory failure, renal dysfunction, sepsis, and multi-organ failure.
  • Manage ventilators, vasoactive medications, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, and renal replacement therapies.
  • Perform invasive and noninvasive procedures according to training, competency, credentialing, and medical staff privileges.
  • Place central venous catheters and arterial lines, perform endotracheal intubation, manage ventilators and chest tubes, and perform other approved procedures.
  • Coordinate care transitions between the operating room, intensive care unit, transplant units, and outpatient transplant services.
  • Participate in donor-organ acceptance, transplant readiness, and perioperative planning.
  • Facilitate family meetings and educate patients and families about transplant recovery, prognosis, immunosuppression, and post-transplant care.
  • Participate in transplant quality, regulatory, programmatic, and evidence-based practice initiatives.
  • Support transplant program growth through professional development and education.
  • Prescribe and monitor medications within applicable prescriptive authority, state requirements, and Cleveland Clinic policy.
  • Perform specialized procedures such as bone marrow aspirations, biopsies, harvests, blood draws, designated intravenous starts, spinal taps, thoracentesis, and paracentesis when approved and directed.
  • Participate in medical-team rounds and collaborate with nursing, medical, and other healthcare team members.
  • Refer patients to specialists and specialized health resources when appropriate.
  • Serve as a liaison among patients, multidisciplinary care teams, and specialty areas to ensure continuity of care.
  • Perform research follow-up studies and assist with data analysis.
  • Review records and treatment plans periodically for quality monitoring and patient outcomes.
  • Facilitate appropriate length of stay, discharge planning, and compliance with inpatient regulatory standards.
  • Provide patient education about diseases, treatments, medication and treatment side effects, hazards, and preventive health maintenance.
  • Work with a collaborating physician.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Desired Qualifications

  • ICU, transplant, surgical critical care, cardiothoracic, or acute care experience.
  • Previous experience in solid organ transplantation, surgical critical care, or advanced heart failure programs.
  • Strong procedural competency and interest in caring for highly complex transplant populations.
  • Two years of clinical nursing experience for APRN candidates.
  • Two years of related clinical experience for PA candidates.
  • Interest in multidisciplinary collaboration, innovation, quality improvement, and exceptional patient outcomes.

About the Company

Cleveland Clinic

Non-profit medical center delivering care

Cleveland Clinic runs a nonprofit academic medical center that delivers patient care, conducts research, and educates future clinicians. It provides in-person hospital services, surgeries, and telehealth options, plus digital tools like MyChart to manage care, as well as provider tools such as DrConnect and eRadiology to coordinate care. It differentiates itself by combining clinical care, medical research, and education under a nonprofit model with a broad international network and a strong emphasis on safety and quality. Its goal is to deliver high-quality medical care while advancing medical knowledge and training clinicians to improve health outcomes for diverse populations, globally.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$74.7M
Headquarters
Cleveland, OH
Founded
1921

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