Neonatal Nurse Practitioner AdventHealth Littleton

Job Overview

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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.

One Advanced Practice Provider will be selected for this position; both qualified NNPs and PA candidates will be considered for one (1) APP opening.

• Location

AdventHealth Littleton Level III NICU

• Position Status

.5 FTE, eligible for benefits

• Shift

Varying shifts, 5 shifts in a 6-week block

• Salary Information

Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $134,414.53 to $201,621.80

• Eligible Incentives

This position is eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $20,000 for qualified external applicants.

Relocation assistance available to eligible candidates moving 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;

+ 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

+ BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association; Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certificate

• Additional Requirements

+ BLS/CPR with at least six (6) months left before expiration.

+ 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 three (3) months of hire.

Benefits

• Information Here, you matter.
• 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 time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.
• 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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