Critical Care Resuscitation Unit (CCRU): Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

This position is working as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in the Critical Care Resuscitation Unit 

The Critical Care Resuscitation Unit – the CCRU – is a novel resuscitation unit for critically ill non-trauma adult patients who are transferred from outside hospitals in need of specialty care at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC). The CCRU, located in the Shock Trauma Critical Care Tower of the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, is staffed 24/7 with experienced critical care attending physicians, advanced practice providers, critical care registered nurses, registered respiratory therapists, EMT-B certified technicians

The CCRU is modeled after the highly-effective Shock Trauma Resuscitation Unit and is designed to: collaborate with referring facilities and pre-hospital transport providers; facilitate prompt transfer of patients requiring specialized care to UMMC; and deliver immediate resuscitation to patients with time-sensitive emergencies

1. Master of Science Degree with completion of an Acute Car Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program. Registered and currently recorded with the Maryland Board of Examiners of Nurses and Certified as a Nurse Practitioner in the State of Maryland. Certified in area of specialty. (DEA and CDS eligible).
2. CPR required
3. ACLS/BCLS as required for inpatient work.
4. A minimum of one (1) year experience as a Registered Nurse is required.
5. Demonstrated ability to promote professionalism through involvement in professional organizations, teaching, research, publishing, and/or certification in area of specialty.
6. Ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient population(s) served. Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s requirements relative to his or her population-specific and age specific needs.
7. Highly effective verbal and written communication skills are required to interact with patient families, departmental units, medical and nursing staff on all essential matters. Demonstrated/documented effective interpersonal skills.
8. Maintains updated hospital safety and other mandatory training.
9. Updated immunizations as recommended per practice area.

Patient Safety

Ensures patient safety in the performance of job functions and through participation in hospital, department or unit patient safety initiatives.

1. Takes action to correct observed risks to patient safety.
2. Reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management authority.
3. Implements policies, procedure, and standards consistently in the performance of assigned duties.
4. Develops effective working relationships and maintains good communication with other team members.
5. Identifies possible risks in processes, procedures, devices and communicates the same to those in charge.