Position Summary/ Department Summary: Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit
Nurse Practitioner (APRN) or Physician Assistant (PA) to function on the inpatient Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit (PIMCU) at Boston Children’s Hospital. This PIMCU APP will serve as the primary provider on the PIMCU team, facilitating the delivery of safe and quality clinical care while partnering with collaborating physicians, pediatric trainees, and nursing teams to promote optimal clinical care.
Key Responsibilities: - Delivery of comprehensive clinical care to infants, children, and adolescents with acute or chronic medical conditions requiring intensive nursing and medical support outside of the ICU setting
- Collaborate closely with the supervising physician to conduct thorough patient assessments, obtain medical histories, perform physical examinations, and diagnose developmental and health concerns
- Active participation in PIMCU medical rounds including presentation, development and implementation of evidence-based treatment plans
- Opportunity for participation in quality improvement and research initiatives
- Setting is a fast-paced inpatient environment, requiring collaboration across multiple consulting teams and interdisciplinary colleagues
- Orientation includes a structured, individualized onboarding program that is tailored to the APP’s experience level, clinical background, and learning needs.
- Inpatient, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours/week with up to 50% rotating days/nights and up to every 3rd weekend. Holiday coverage depending on service needs.
Minimum Qualifications Education: - Master’s degree in Nursing or Physician Assistant Studies
Experience: - A minimum of 2+ years inpatient pediatric experience with preference for those with experience in caring for higher acuity or higher complexity patients.
- 1+ year of Pediatric NP or PA experience preferred
- Would consider new graduate nurse practitioner with recent pediatric inpatient RN experience, minimum 2 years ideal with a similar patient population.
Licensure/ Certifications: - A current Massachusetts NP (PNP preferred will consider a FNP with pediatric experience) or PA license required
- BLS required, PALS strongly preferred
**Sign-on bonus of $4,500.00 for part-time (36 hours) APP hires (who have not worked at BCH in the past 2 years.)Boston Children’s Hospital offers competitive compensation and unmatched benefits including flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.
bchAPP The posted pay range is Boston Children’s reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.
Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.
