Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

Job Overview

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 Multiple location options available Children's Hospital Colorado Level IV NICU on the Anschutz campus in Aurora University of Colorado Hospital Level III NICU on the Anschutz campus in Aurora Community Level II NICU sites with rotation to Level III or IV NICU
• Position Status Multiple FTEs available depending on level of relevant experience Must work 20 hours/week to be eligible for benefits.
• Shift Mix of 12-hour and 24-hour shifts, site dependent
• Salary Information $130,499.55 to $195,749.32 annually (based on 1.0 FTE) Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.
• Eligible Incentives This position is eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $20,000 for qualified external applicants. Relocation assistance available if relocating from 100 miles or greater.
  
  

Duties & Responsibilities

Family Centered Care:

• Consistently integrates age specific 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.
  
  

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

As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid sick leave and a robust wellness program.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

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