Description

Life Flight Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP/ACNP)

Metro Life Flight
The MetroHealth System | Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio

Where Critical Care Meets Flight Medicine

Do you thrive in high-acuity environments where every clinical decision matters? Are you ready to practice at the highest level of advanced practice nursing while providing critical care in one of the most dynamic clinical environments?

The Department of Emergency Medicine at The MetroHealth System, a nationally recognized academic medical center and principal teaching affiliate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, is seeking an experienced Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP or ACNP) to join Metro Life Flight, one of Northeast Ohio’s premier critical care transport programs.

This is an exceptional opportunity to provide advanced critical care aboard helicopter and ground critical care transport units. As part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary team of physicians, advanced practice providers, flight nurses, paramedics, pilots, and EMS professionals, you will care for critically ill and injured patients requiring rapid transport to specialized tertiary and quaternary care centers throughout the region.

Why Metro 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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Join Our Mission

At Metro Life Flight, every mission presents an opportunity to make a difference when time, expertise, and decisive clinical care matter most.

If you are an experienced Acute Care Nurse Practitioner who is passionate about critical care, emergency medicine, and caring for patients in a uniquely challenging environment, we invite you to explore a career with Metro Life Flight.

To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter to:

Eloy Vázquez, Sr.
Provider Recruiter
The MetroHealth System
Email: evazquez@metrohealth.org