Acute NP/PA Inpatient Neurocritical Care

LCMC Health; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Physician lounge

Preferred parking

Additional perks

Job summary

LCMC Health's Neurocritical Care program seeks an Acute NP or PA for East Jefferson General Hospital, Metairie, West Jefferson Medical Center, and University Medical Center in New Orleans. This full-time role offers 12-hour shifts day and/or night with weekend and holiday rotation.

The APP-led service emphasizes clinical excellence, close collaboration with physicians, and a deliberate work-life balance through structured orientation and strong support.

Responsibilities

• Assess complex acute, critical and chronically ill patients for urgent conditions.
• Use data to evaluate instability and inform the plan of care.
• Manage the plan of care through evaluation and documentation.
• Educate patients, families, and staff; serve as a resource to the care team.
• Support professional development and mentoring of APPs, nurses, and students.
• Promote patient safety and quality through reporting and practice changes.

Skills

Acute care assessment

Critical care coordination

Team collaboration

Job description

Neurocritical Care - Acute NP or PA for: East Jefferson General Hospital - Metairie West Jefferson Medical Center - Marrero University Medical Center - New Orleans Full-time - Days and/or Nights 12 hour Shifts - Weekend and holiday rotation

LCMC's neurocritical service line knows that recruiting top-tier APPs means offering more than just a job title. It means building an environment where you feel prepared, supported, respected, with the ability to thrive both inside and outside the hospital.

Since 2018, this APP led service line has expanded across the LCMC system, along with the support of its physician dyads, leaning on the following constructs:

• Clinical Excellence: Our 12–14-week new graduate focused orientation is among the most comprehensive APP onboarding experiences in the region. Combining immersive bedside training with structured didactic education and point of care ultrasound utilization, you'll develop the critical thinking and procedural confidence to manage your most complex patients — long before you're ever asked to do it independently.
• Collaboration: Our model is built on true collaboration. With 24-hour physician support, a dedicated APP lead championing your daily needs and long-term career development, along with a multidisciplinary team that genuinely values the APP role, you'll always have the backup and partnership you need to deliver excellent care - always.
• Prioritized Work-Life Balance Scheduling: Intentional scheduling that protects your time away from the hospital. We understand that sustainable, high-quality critical care requires providers who are rested, fulfilled, and present — and our scheduling philosophy reflects that commitment.

The details matter and the little things add up! Enjoy access to the physician lounge and preferred parking along with a full package of additional perks that reflect the professional respect you've earned.

Why a Great Place to Work

You’re more than your job. Everyone is. And that’s what makes you great at your job—all the little extras you bring to work every day, the things that make you you . At LCMC Health we value those things about you, because we know that all those little extras add up to extraordinary. And we’ve built a culture that supports and celebrates the extraordinary. You’ll see it when you come to work here, in the spirit of our places and the faces of our people. And every patient we heal, every family we comfort, every life we improve is the outcome of countless little extras adding up to an extraordinary result. Join LCMC Health, and you’ll find that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary.

GENERAL DUTIES

• Assessment: Assesses the complex acute, critical and chronically ill patients for urgent and emergent conditions. Uses relevant data to evaluate for any physiologic instability and utilizes data to formulate plan of care.
• Clinical Interventions: Performs therapeutic interventions to stabilize acute and critical health problems. Specific interventions are listed in the Scope of Practice and approved as a part of the credentialing/privileging process. Analyzes the indications, contradictions, risk of complications and cost-benefits of therapeutic interventions.
• Plan of Care: Manages the plan of care through evaluation, modification and documentation according to the patient's response to therapy. Manages changes in condition with a focus on optimizing the patient outcomes. Incorporates health promotion, health protection and injury prevention measures into the plan of care within the context of the complex acute, critical and chronic illness. Facilitates the patients transition between and within health care settings.
• Education: Serves as an educational resource to the patient/family, nursing staff and provider team. Acts as a consultant to multidisciplinary health care team members.
• Professional Development: Participates in scholarly activities including research and education. Participates in own professional development by maintaining required competencies, identifying learning needs and seeking appropriate educational offerings. Acts as a preceptor and mentor to support the development of nurses, APPs, students and other health care providers.
• Patient Safety and Quality: Demonstrates a commitment to patient safety by speaking up about safety issues and changing practice to enhance safety. Demonstrates shared accountability for safe practice. Shares errors or potential errors through system reporting mechanisms.