Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Facility: Acute Care / Teaching Hospital
Start Date: November 11, 2026
Assignment Duration: 26 weeks
Positions: 1
Setting: ICU
EMR: Epic
Opportunity Overview
A prestigious teaching hospital in Boston, MA is seeking an experienced Critical Care APP for a locum tenens opportunity focused primarily on weekend and night coverage.
This is an excellent opportunity for a local APP looking for flexible ICU coverage in a collaborative academic environment. The APP will work alongside attendings and fellows while providing essential clinical support in a 10-bed adult ICU.
Schedule
- Day Shift: 6:00 AM 7:00 PM
- Night Shift: 6:00 PM 7:00 AM
- Primarily weekend and night coverage
- Friday night counts as a weekend shift
- Preferred: approximately 4 weekend shifts/month
- Minimum: 2 weekend shifts/month
- Providers do not need to work 3 consecutive 13-hour shifts every weekend
- Local candidates strongly preferred
- No travel provided
Clinical Details
- Adult ICU
- 10 ICU beds
- Average daily census: approximately 7 patients
- Bread-and-butter ICU and medical-surgical cases
- Approximately 1 2 burn patients
- Typical responsibilities include:
- Rounding with the attending in the morning
- Completing clinical tasks
- Afternoon rounds
- Responding to clinical needs in the unit
- APPs function primarily as responding clinicians
- No procedures required
Procedures/Conditions Not Required
- No intubations
- No central lines
- No ventilator management
- No transplant cases
- No ECHO
- No complex neuro cases
- No EVD
- No complex neuro-stroke cases
Team & Support
- 4 APPs on staff
- Day shift supervised by an MD
- Night shift supervised by a fellow/attending
- Collaborative teaching-hospital environment
- Some degree of clinical independence is encouraged
Requirements
- Acute Care certification
- Strong ICU experience
- Minimum 2+ years of critical care experience
- ACLS required
- BLS required
- DEA required
- Massachusetts license required for NPs
- NPs needing a new MA license will not be considered
- PAs may be considered with willingness to obtain MA licensure
- PA licensure process typically takes approximately 3 5 weeks
- Credentialing timeframe: approximately 90 days
Ideal Candidate
This opportunity is especially well suited for a local Boston-area Critical Care APP who wants consistent weekend/night ICU coverage without a travel commitment.
Ready to join a leading Boston teaching hospital? Apply today!
