Acute Care Full-Time position in Phoenix, Arizona

3 weeks ago


Phoenix, Arizona, United States Phoenix Children's Full time

Phoenix Children's is currently seeking an energetic,
Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner to join our growing
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) here in
Phoenix, AZ


Applicants are required to have graduated from an Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program. We do accept new graduate pediatric nurse practitioners and prefer that new graduates have prior PICU experience as registered nurses. Practitioners in the PICU work rotating shifts.


Job Duties

  • Conducts comprehensive health history, physical assessments and plans for infants, children, and young adults with acute and chronic health conditions.
  • Uses advanced assessment skills to manage a cohort of patients in collaboration with residents, fellows, and attending physicians
  • Orders and prescribes pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic interventions and performs other therapeutic or corrective measures to treat illness and improve health status.
  • Formulates familycentered plan of care during interprofessional rounds
  • Performs daily documentation and billing
  • Collaborates and coordinates care with interdisciplinary services
  • Performs critical carerelated procedures including intubations, central line placement, arterial line place, lumbar punctures, and chest tubes
  • Uses the most uptodate and evidencebased practice for plan of care and able to alter the plan according to family needs and effectiveness of plan.
  • Serves as an educational resource to patients, families, and healthcare team
  • Participates in professional development opportunities
  • Participates in the professional development of other members of the healthcare team.
  • Demonstrates commitment to patient safety and shared accountability of safe practice.
  • Performs miscellaneous jobrelated duties, research, and education

About Us

The PICU is a busy unit, seeing over 2,000 admissions a year. The
PICU also has two 8-bed satellite units that the nurse practitioners are responsible for helping to provide coverage in these units with an attending physician.


Nurse practitioners at the main campus 48-bed
PICU work collaboratively with the medical team and the attending physicians to help care for high acuity, intensive care patients ages birth to 18 years old and their families.



Phoenix Children's Hospital is a level 1 trauma center and has robust programs for endocrinology, neurosurgery, hematology/oncology, BMT, liver transplant, nephrology, general surgery, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support (ECMO).

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