Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates competence in all aspects of practice within the scope of a family or adult nurse practitioner.
• Uses appropriate internal and external resources to resolve, meet or exceed patient and family health care needs.
• Identifies common and unusual problems for patient populations in order to develop expected outcomes.
• Maintains current knowledge concerning principles and practice of nursing through current literature, attendance at workshops and seminars, membership in professional organizations.
• Completes requests for office visits, outside patient testing and routine information in an accurate & timely fashion.
• Participates and contributes to the Quality Assurance and Infection Control Program, as appropriate.
• Consistently demonstrates the ability to assess a situation, consider the alternatives and properly choose an appropriate course of action.
• Able to assess, diagnose, develop plan of care, and assess patient outcomes in a competent and timely manner.
• Performs reassessment of patients, patient progress, implications for revision of plan of care, and documents same.
• Assesses & facilitates resolutions of the patients psychosocial problems and support needs, initiates necessary consultation and involvement of other health care personnel, as appropriate.
• Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings on history and physical examinations, recording these findings in the chart/record.
• Communicates impressions, plan of medical management and information about patients with the collaborative physician as appropriate.
• Plays a role in the development and implementation of teaching plans for patients & their families.
• Accurately assesses health status of patients coming to or telephoning the practice for assistance and/or information.
• Helps assess the medical and nursing care rendered by self & others within the practice, identifying any need for improvement and communicates this information to appropriate personnel.
• Consistently performs 12 organizational Service Standards focused on Values, Service, and Quality.

Qualifications

• A graduate of an approved professional school of nursing.
• Completion of State Board of Nursing approved Nurse Practitioner Course and license or temporary permit to practice professional nursing as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse.