Neonatal Nurse Specialist

Overview

Neonatal Nurse Specialists are members of a health care team working in collaboration with neonatal nurse practitioners, attending neonatologist, staff nurses, respiratory therapists, and other health care professionals to provide patient management, education, and continuity of care.

• Position Status: 80 hours per pay period, eligible for benefits
• Shift: 12-hour clinical shifts, rotating days/nights
• Salary Information:
  Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience. Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $90,900.58 to $
• Eligible
  
  Incentives:
  
  Relocation benefits eligible if relocating from 100 miles or greater

• Functions primarily as a team member involved with patient management under the direct authorization and supervision of a board-certified neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP-BC) and/or physician member of the medical staff. Performs nursing functions independently. All orders must be cosigned by a fully credentialed NNP-BC or physician.
• Healthcare delivery systems:
  Begins to recognize how external and internal factors influence healthcare. Begins to evaluate outcomes of care. Begins to learn how to develop an individualized care plan.
• Leadership:
  Begin to transition from RN role. Recognizes importance of interdisciplinary care. Reviews guidelines and protocols.
• Policy:
  Member of professional organization. Becomes familiar with policies that impact neonatal nursing, neonates and families.
• Practice Inquiry:
  Searches literature to answer clinical questions. Reviews protocols and procedures with preceptor. Attends in-services.
• Quality:
  Becomes familiar with quality improvement process. Begins to note relationship between quality and patient care.
• Scientific foundation:
  Attends lectures and reads current EBP literature.
• Technology and Information Literacy:
  Begins to identify family needs and relays to multidisciplinary team. Uses technology to obtain and document comprehensive maternal and newborn history. Familiar with EMR and how to utilize data to create a plan of care.
• Attend fellowship educational offerings. Complete fellowship evaluations.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and Master’s Degree Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP)
• Experience:
  
  1 year clinical and pediatric experience required; minimum of 2 years of RN NICU experience
• Licenses &
  
  Certifications:
  
  Registered Nurse License (RN); BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association;
  Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certificate and optional Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS);
  Board Certification as an NNP

Here, you matter. You will receive a competitive pay and benefits package including base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match, 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.

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. 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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