Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Flex

The Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) delivers expert, family-centered care for infants and toddlers up to age 2, across the wellness-illness continuum. In collaboration with healthcare providers, the NNP performs comprehensive assessments, diagnoses, and manages acute, chronic, and critical conditions. Responsibilities include conducting exams, interpreting diagnostic tests, prescribing treatments and medications, and coordinating referrals. The NNP also promotes health education, disease prevention, and counseling.

As a clinical leader, the NNP fosters interprofessional collaboration and integrates evidence-based practice to ensure high-quality care.

• Department
  Neonatal Nurse Practitioners
• Position Status
  Flex, not eligible for benefits
• Shift
  Per need of unit
• Salary Information
  Hourly Rate of Pay: $79.18

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 (3) years' combined experience as RN or NNP in a neonatal setting
• Licenses & Certifications
  • BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association
  • Neonatal…