Critical Care Advanced Practice Provider
Posted Sep 28, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you had a hard goals-of-care conversation with a family in the ICU.
What they are checking: Whether they can lead honest, compassionate conversations about prognosis, which ICU families depend on.
Tell me about a mistake you made in clinical care and what you changed afterward.
What they are checking: Whether they own errors honestly and turn them into safer habits.
How do you stay sharp working nights, weekends and holidays at 0.6 FTE?
What they are checking: Whether they have a plan for sleep and skills when they aren't in the unit every day.
The posting mentions helping develop standards of practice. Tell me about a protocol you helped improve.
What they are checking: Whether they contribute to unit quality beyond their own patients, using evidence.
What would you do
How do you decide when to call the collaborating intensivist overnight, and when to handle it yourself?
What they are checking: Whether they know the edges of their skill and escalate early instead of waiting until a patient crashes.
A nurse raises a concern about your order and you think the order is right. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they listen and explain their reasoning instead of brushing nurses off, which keeps the ICU safe.
About the work
You'd cover the medical ICU at Edward Hospital on rotating 12-hour days and nights. Walk me through how you would manage a patient in septic shock in the first hour.
What they are checking: Whether they know sepsis bundle care, fluids, pressors and source control well enough to act at the bedside.
At 3 a.m. a ventilated patient's oxygen drops quickly. Talk me through your thinking.
What they are checking: Whether they work through vent and patient causes in an organized way when there is no time to look things up.
What procedures are you comfortable doing independently, like central lines or arterial lines?
What they are checking: Whether their hands-on skills match what an ICU APP is expected to do on nights.
How do you hand off ICU patients at shift change so nothing gets lost?
What they are checking: Whether they use a structured handoff covering pending results, plans and contingencies.
Walk me through how you would interpret an arterial blood gas showing a mixed acid-base problem.
What they are checking: Whether their core ICU reasoning is solid enough to guide treatment on their own.
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