Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

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
  $ to $ 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…