Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

Duties & Responsibilities

• Family Centered Care
• Consistently integrates age-specific and culturally diverse concepts into patient care, considering both chronological age and developmental functioning.
• Advocates for the neonatal patient/family/caregiver.
• Promotes self-management & family-centered care.
• Derives outcomes & plans of care that involve the patient/family/caregiver when possible & are realistic to their capabilities & resources.
• Provides patient/family/caregiver with diagnostic & laboratory results as well as actual/potential benefits, limitations, & adverse effects of proposed therapies.
• Teamwork & Collaboration
• Provides leadership in care management to achieve optimal quality, cost-effective care.
• Documents & communicates with healthcare team members to achieve an integrated delivery of pediatric care services.
• Delegates appropriate monitoring, assessment, & interventions according to the patient and scope of practice of the caregiver; Provides consultation to influence the identified plan of care, to enhance the abilities of others to provide health care, and to effect change in the healthcare system.
• Makes appropriate referrals and discusses recommendations with patient/family/caregiver.
• Quality Improvement
• Participates in quality improvement activities or research to improve the care delivery process & patient care outcomes; Uses & communicates results to initiate change in practice.
• Uses creativity, new knowledge, & innovation to improve care.
• Safety
• Maintains a professional practice while utilizing evidenced-based practice.
• Communicates and demonstrates critical thinking for patient care management.
• Is mindful and judicious in monitoring safety and departmental policies and procedures.
• Informatics
• Uses information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error and support decision making.
• Leadership
• Takes action to achieve goals identified during performance appraisal & peer review, resulting in changes in practice & role performance.
• Participates in lifelong learning that improves skills & competence in clinical practice/role performance.
• Serves as preceptor, role model, or mentor.
• Contributes to the professional development of peers/colleagues to improve neonatal health care & to foster the profession’s growth; Integrates ethical considerations & research findings into practice.
• Provides leadership by participating on committees or in professional organizations, or writing/publishing/presenting.
• Serves as a leader, influencing healthcare/APN practice & policy.

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees- Bachelor of Science in Nursing & Master’s Degree NNP
• Experience- Three years’ combined experience as RN or NNP in a neonatal setting. High risk neonatal setting experience preferred.
• Licenses & Certifications- Registered Nurse License (RN); Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) License; Prescriptive Authority License; Board Certification as a NNP; Credentialing must be completed by the Medical Staff Office (MSO) within 3 months of employment
• BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association; Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certificate and optional Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).

Benefits Information

• Competitive pay and benefits package including base pay, incentives, paid sick leave and a robust wellness program.
• Annual employee bonus program based on organizational performance.
• Annual base pay increases based on performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement

• Equal opportunity employer.
• No illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.