Advanced Practice Provider (APP) (NP) Pediatrics, Section of Hospital Medicine Assistant Professor Clinical Practice

About the role

The Section of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Children's Hospital Colorado is rapidly expanding, with the recruitment of some of the nation’s best and brightest pediatric hospitalists. As we expand our academic, quality improvement, and educational programs, we continue to provide expert inpatient medical care for children throughout Colorado, and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Care for pediatric patients of all age ranges, developmental, nutritional, and physiological status in the inpatient setting.
• The APP works independently within the multidisciplinary team to provide quality inpatient care and disease management for a variety of pediatric inpatient conditions of varying acuity and complexity from admission through discharge, including coordination of discharge planning with case managers, social work, nurses, and other medical personnel.
• History and physical examinations and determination of treatment plans.
• Monitoring of illness progression and escalation of care for decompensating patients.
• LPC procedural skills and privilege maintenance (initial procedural privileging can be obtained upon employment if not already privileged).
• Participates in multi-disciplinary care including team meetings and patient care conferences.
• Care for well newborns in 3 local community hospitals from admission to discharge.
• Circumcision and frenotomy procedural skills and privilege maintenance (initial procedural privileging can be obtained upon employment if not already privileged).
• Nocturnist role: Co-management with MD/DO attending coverage of Colorado Springs general medical inpatient team, including admissions, transfers, stabilization of decompensating patients. Coverage of nursery pager for all sites, including as needed evaluation of patients at the Memorial North nursery overnight.
• Attendance and participation at monthly staff meetings is required.

Requirements

• APN licensure and a masters degree from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program.
• BLS and PALS certification.
• Pediatric Nursing Certification Board certificate or other comparable certification required.
• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner certification required.
• Ability to obtain Prescriptive Authority in the State of Colorado. Will need to qualify for and obtain prescriptive authority within one year of beginning position.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in general pediatrics or hospital medicine.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: Applicants must meet minimum qualifications at the time of hire.
• Preferred Qualifications: 8 or more years of experience in pediatrics.
• Current CO state prescriptive authority.
• Inpatient experience.

Skills

Knowledge of a variety of common pediatric and adolescent inpatient conditions.

Superior customer service, communication, organizational and prioritization, problem solving, and collaboration skills are necessary.

Expertise and training in history and physical examinations and determination of treatment plans necessary.

Benefits

Colorado license, BLS, and PALS will be required prior to start date.

NRP required within 6 months of hire.

Pay

Hiring Range: $125,000 - $132,000

Schedule

Full-time

Benefits

For best consideration, apply by July 15, 2026.