The APP will collaborate with the neurosurgeons for clinical management of neurosurgery patients through utilization of approved protocols and procedures as well as appropriate medical consultation, provide direction and education to nursing and other staff personnel regarding patient management issues and provide daily contact with patients, family members, visitors, employees, medical staff, volunteer, and students throughout the continuum of neurosurgical care. Saint Alphonsus, Boise is the principal provider of advanced, innovative, and interdisciplinary neurological services, including a TSE designated Comprehensive Stroke Center, the region's only Level II Trauma Center, a NASB designated MDT Skull Base team of excellence, and the first in the State of ID to have Neuro critical care by Neuro Intensivist Fellowship trained MDs.