Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Longmont United

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
  Common Spirit Longmont United NICU +
  rotation to Children's Hospital Colorado Level III or higher NICUs
• Position Status
  Multiple FTEs available
• Shift
  On Call Model; 15 24-hour shifts in a six-week block for a 1.0 FTE
• Salary Information
  Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.
  Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $ to $
• 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;
  • 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…