Location
- Charlotte, NC
Summary description:
This APP position functions within a fast‑paced, high‑acuity Trauma and Surgical Critical Care service. It is best suited for APPs with prior trauma or critical‑care experience to ensure a smooth transition with minimal knowledge gaps. The role has high autonomy, rotating across both Trauma and SCC service lines, and focuses on managing critically ill and critically injured patients.
Job description:
Instruction Focus (Condensed):1. Orientation & Workflow: EMR, protocols, trauma activations, ICU workflowa. Learning Objective: Understand organizational structure, documentation workflows, trauma activation processes, ICU protocols, rounding structure, and interdisciplinary communication standards.2. Core Trauma & Critical Care: Ventilators, ABGs, vasoactive medication management, early decompensation recognitiona. Learning Objective: Demonstrate competency in managing ventilators, interpreting arterial blood gases, titrating vasoactive drips, and recognizing early signs of decompensation in critically ill and poly‑trauma patients.3. Advanced Procedures: Chest tubes, central/arterial lines, bronchoscopy, invasive monitoringa. Learning Objective: Perform advanced bedside procedures—including chest tubes, central and arterial lines, bronchoscopy—and proficiently utilize invasive monitoring tools (CVP, arterial waveform interpretation, ICP when applicable).4. Trauma Resuscitation & OR Coordination: High‑acuity resuscitation, perioperative transitionsa. Learning Objective: Execute high‑acuity trauma resuscitations, participate in OR coordination, assist in emergent bedside procedures, and lead transitions of care for trauma and surgical ICU patients.5. Autonomous Practice & Teaching: Independent management, teaching learners, leading rounds/huddles, communication with consultantsa. Learning Objective: Demonstrate readiness for independent practice, precept learners, contribute to academic education, lead multidisciplinary huddles, and manage a patient load consistent with service expectations.