Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant-led Cardiovascular Surgery Postoperative Intensive Care Unit Staffing Model.

Objectives: To determine whether a nurse practitioner and physician assistant (NP/PA)-led rapid staffing. Model in the cardiac surgical intensive care unit (ICU) can optimize resource utilization without compromising safety or increasing hospital length of stay (LoS).

Design: Retrospective observational cohort study comparing before-and-after implementation of an NP/PA-led rapid recovery pathway.