Neonatal Nurse Practitioner - Helen DeVos Children's Hospital - Grand Rapids, MI - Sig

Overview

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner - Helen DeVos Children's Hospital - Grand Rapids, MI - ($30,000 Signing Bonus)

Join to apply for the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner role at Corewell Health. In collaboration with physicians, manage care delivery for critical care and surgical patients, and coordinate services provided by multiple disciplines within and outside the health system. Exercise independent judgment in the assessment, diagnosis, and initiation of selected protocols/procedures. Provide educational support for patients/guardians, health team members and the community.

Also coordinate QA/QI studies to measure outcomes of care.

The Gerber Foundation Neonatal Center is a Level IV neonatal intensive care unit. It is the only hospital in West Michigan to offer this level of care. We also have the largest neonatal unit in the state of Michigan and are one of the nation’s top 10 largest contiguous neonatal centers.

As a Level 4 unit, we are located within an institution with the capability to provide surgical repair of complex congenital or acquired conditions. We educate nursing and medical students along with medical residents. We can transport ill infants from outside hospitals. We also provide ongoing education as well as newborn nursery coverage for hospitals in our region in Michigan.

We are one of the few neonatal centers in the country to have a designated space within the NICU for extremely premature babies. The small baby unit is designed to meet the medically complex needs of babies born at or before 27 weeks. Staff working in this area have extensive training in the complex care of these very fragile babies.

• Functions in the role of advanced practitioner to coordinate comprehensive care delivery. Utilizes critical thinking and expert clinical skills to assess, plan, intervene and evaluate the care delivered to critically ill patients. Collaborates closely with physician colleagues and other health care team members. Writes orders/prescriptions for standard formulary medications, laboratory, radiographic studies and consultations, coordinating the scheduling of admissions, diagnostic evaluations, follow-up exams, laboratory tests, referrals to home care, social services, and other community agencies, etc.,
  
  in order to ensure continuity of care and coordination of services.
• Obtains histories and performs physical exams.
• Assesses the patient’s, guardian's, health care team’s, school’s and other community educational needs and develops, implements, evaluates and revises teaching strategies/educational programs related to area of specialty.
• Acts as a patient advocate, crossing multidisciplinary lines to meet patient needs.
• Communicates, collaborates, networks with and acts as a consultant to other members of the health care team within and outside Spectrum Health. Acts as a consultant in area of expertise.
• Performs and assists with designated procedures including resuscitation and responding to medical emergencies.
• Documents in the medical record and dictates information as appropriate.
• Provides input into the strategic planning, implementation and evaluation of service/program. Measures the outcomes of care and evaluate services across the continuum of inpatient to outpatient services. Makes recommendations to improve the quality of patient care provided and utilizes the scientific method to research clinical problems.

• Required Master’s Degree or equivalent. Nurse Practitioners who obtained their education and certification after 2000 must show evidence of completion of a master’s, post-master’s or doctorate from a Nurse Practitioner program that is accredited by the Commission on the Collegiate of Nursing Education or the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission
• 5 years of relevant experience including three years in area of specialty
• Previous experience functioning in a collaborative role. Ability to coordinate care provided by multiple services.
• Experience as a Nurse Practitioner in critical care area (Preferred)
• Licensed Registered Nurse (RN) - State of Michigan Upon Hire required
• Licensed Nurse Practitioner (NP) - State of Michigan Upon Hire required…