Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

About the role

The Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) provides expert Family-Centered Care across the wellness-illness continuum, providing primary, acute, chronic and critical care to infants and toddlers up to age 2 years. In collaboration with other health care providers the NNP will provide initial, ongoing and comprehensive care, including taking complete histories; providing physical examinations and diagnosing, treating and managing patients with acute and chronic illnesses and diseases. This includes ordering, performing, supervising, and interpreting laboratory and imaging studies; prescribing medication and durable medical equipment; and making appropriate referrals for patients and families. In addition, NNP care also includes health promotion, disease prevention, health education, and counseling. The NNP will function as a leader within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. Identifies and demonstrates incorporation of best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care at the unit or organization level.

Location: Ivison Memorial Hospital, Laramie, WY

Position Status: 8 FTE, eligible for benefits

Shift: Per need of unit

Duties & Responsibilities

• Family-Centered Care: Consistently integrates age specific and culturally diverse concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient's 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 the patient/family/caregiver 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. NNP maintains clinical competency (ability to independently manage and perform at a high level, and takes personal responsibility for obtaining competency as needed). Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic/non-pharmacological agents & interventions that are both universal & unique to the patient, & monitors/evaluates effects. Employs diverse & complex strategies, interventions, & teaching to promote health & a safe environment. Orders and/or performs appropriate treatments, therapies, & procedures that are based on current knowledge, research, & practice; 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 (3) years of experience as RN or NNP in a neonatal setting. High risk neonatal setting experience preferred. Circumcision procedure experience preferred.
• Licenses & Certifications:
  • BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certificate
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Certification preferred
  • Registered Nurse License (RN)
  • Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) License
  • Prescriptive Authority License
  • Board Certification as a NNP

Pay

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $134,414.53 to $201,621.80. Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits package including base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), and a robust wellness program
• Access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career
• Annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance (paid out the following April if organizational goals are met)
• Annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on performance over the previous year