Advance Practice Registered Nurse - Life Flight

• Deliver advanced critical care during helicopter and ground transport.
• Practice with a high degree of autonomy while collaborating closely with Emergency Medicine physicians and multidisciplinary specialists.
• Care for complex trauma and critically ill medical, surgical, cardiac, neurologic, respiratory, and high-risk obstetrical patients.
• Utilize advanced critical care procedures, monitoring, medications, and technologies.
• Participate in education, simulation, quality improvement, and research initiatives.
• Practice in a unique environment that combines critical care medicine, emergency medicine, and flight medicine.

• Assess, stabilize, and manage critically ill and injured adult and pediatric patients during transport.
• Develop and implement evidence-based treatment plans for complex, time-sensitive clinical conditions.
• Manage mechanical ventilation, invasive monitoring, vasoactive medications, blood products, and advanced cardiac and critical care therapies.
• Perform and/or assist with advanced critical care procedures within established scope of practice and program competencies.
• Collaborate with EMS agencies, trauma teams, intensivists, surgeons, specialty services, and referring and receiving hospitals.
• Provide comprehensive critical care throughout the transport continuum, from referring facility or scene through arrival at the receiving center.
• Promote safe transport operations, clinical excellence, and optimal patient outcomes.
• Contribute to ongoing education, simulation, quality improvement, and clinical research.

• Academic affiliation with Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
• Practice within a nationally recognized academic health system.
• Comprehensive onboarding, orientation, and ongoing professional development.
• Continuing education and opportunities to advance clinical expertise.
• Teaching and mentoring opportunities with residents, fellows, nurses, paramedics, and other learners.
• Strong physician and multidisciplinary collaboration.
• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
• The opportunity to practice critical care medicine in a unique prehospital and transport environment.

• Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) or higher.
• Graduate of an accredited Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) program.
• Current Ohio RN and APRN licensure and national board certification.
• Current AHA BLS certification.
• Eligibility for clinical privileges through The MetroHealth System.
• Critical care, emergency medicine, trauma, or transport experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to function effectively in high-acuity, rapidly changing clinical environments.
• Strong communication, clinical judgment, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

evazquez@metrohealth.org