Part Time Advanced Practice Provider Variable

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit will work collaboratively with physicians, nurse practitioners, consultants, nurses, and other health care providers, dedicating his/her specialized work to patients in the PICU.

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Nemours Children's Hospital is a 24+ bed unit in a Level 1 Trauma Center.

Patients requiring care and surveillance in the PICU will have conditions and diagnoses which may include, but are not limited to, those producing acute and reversible loss of consciousness, respiratory failure, compromised air exchange, cardiovascular dysfunction, hepatic failure, hemodynamic instability, renal dysfunction, CNS injury or dysfunction, acute trauma and organ failure requiring transplantation.

Treatments or interventions performed in the PICU include measures utilizing advance life support technology including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tracheal intubation, ECMO, mechanical ventilation, pharmacologic support of circulation, point of care monitoring, CRRT, thoracentesis as well as hemodynamic monitoring, ICP monitoring and intravascular monitoring.