Neonatal Nurse Practitioner - Tupelo - Department of Pediatrics

Job Summary

To manage and provide patient medical care in a specialty area and promotes patient health and wellness by assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing and evaluating appropriate patient care in collaboration with a physician and in accordance with UMMC, state, and federal requirements and guidelines. To perform job duties in accordance with the medical center's purpose.

Education & Experience

• Graduate of an approved Nurse Practitioner program
• Hold national certification and Mississippi APRN license or eligible for Mississippi APRN license

Responsibilities

• Completes health assessments in a newborn area (patient histories and physical exams)
• Orders, collects, and interprets relevant laboratory and other diagnostic tests
• Formulates and implements comprehensive patient care plans in a newborn area based on patient assessments
• Plans include, but are not limited to patient and family education, prescriptions, additional lab and diagnostic testing, and therapies
• Ensures complete documentation of patient assessments, patient care plans, and care provided
• Coaches and mentors other newer nurse practitioners
• Serves on at least one nursing council, hospital, or medical center committee, task force, or project team to improve patient care or work area

Qualifications

• Demonstrates core standards of exceptional customer service

Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of APRN procedures and protocols
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Knowledge and understanding of MS board of nursing regulations

Physical and Environmental Demands

• Requires occasional exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold
• Occasional handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment
• Frequent exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations
• Frequent working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours
• Occasional travelling to offsite locations
• Constant activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature
• Constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality
• Constant bending
• Frequent lifting and carrying more than 100 pounds
• Frequent climbing
• Occasional crawling
• Frequent crouching/stooping
• Occasional driving
• Occasional kneeling
• Occasional pushing/pulling
• Frequent reaching
• Occasional sitting
• Constant standing
• Frequent twisting
• Constant walking

Pay

Salary FTE %: 100

Benefits

Benefits Eligibility Grant Funded: No