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Chicago, IL
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner jobs in Chicago, IL
3 open roles from 1 employer. Checked Oct 6, 2026.
What these openings look like
All 3 are at Northwestern Medicine. None of these postings publish a pay range. Every posting is full time. The most recent went up on Sep 17, 2026.
Every listing links to the employer's own application. Nothing is posted here on their behalf, and nothing is reposted from anywhere else.
Open roles
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Cardiac Surgery / Aortic Disease, Full-time, Days
Posted Sep 17 · Verified Oct 6
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Cardiac Surgery Step-down unit, Full-time, Rotating
Posted Sep 17 · Verified Oct 6
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Stem Cell Transplant & Cell Therapy, Full-time, Days
Posted Sep 15 · Verified Oct 6
What they ask acute care nurse practitioner candidates here
Drawn from the 3 open postings on this page. The ones that come up across several employers are near the top.
Tell me about your inpatient experience managing medically complex patients.
What they are checking: Whether the acuity they have handled matches what this service carries.
Walk me through your first assessment of a patient with new neurological symptoms.
What they are checking: Clinical reasoning where time changes the outcome.
Tell me about working inside a team with attendings, fellows, residents and students. Where did you fit?
What they are checking: Whether they know how an APP works in a teaching team, which is a specific skill.
How do you move a patient through admission, transfer and discharge without it stalling?
What they are checking: Throughput, which the posting names explicitly and which most clinicians ignore.
Tell me about a time you led or ran a code or a rapid response.
What they are checking: Whether they can take charge of a room, which this role asks for directly.
How do you coordinate consults so a patient is not waiting on three services at once?
What they are checking: Practical coordination, which decides length of stay more than any single decision.
Tell me about a handoff to an outpatient team that went wrong.
What they are checking: Whether they think about what happens after discharge.
How do you talk to a family about a prognosis that is uncertain?
What they are checking: Honesty without false comfort, in a service where outcomes vary widely.
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