Neonatal Nurse Practitioner​/Physician Assistant-- Varies- Britain, Meriden

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant-40 hours-Location Varies-New Britain, Meriden, and Hartford

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Independently completes thorough evaluations of newborns primarily in the Well Newborn Nurseries. Develops and implements informed management plans encompassing complicated and atypical diagnoses, with the ability to modify plans as necessary. Anticipates and triages urgent and emergent issues. Collaborates care and facilitates communication with the supervising physician and the inter‑professional team. Coordinates recommendations to optimize patient care and foster collaborative practice.

Incorporates a broader organization awareness into decision‑making and interpersonal relationships.

Medical knowledge

• Integrates a breadth of medical knowledge that includes complicated and atypical conditions to guide patient care, incorporating evidence‑based practice and current literature to support care.
• Prioritizes and optimizes evaluation based on risks, benefits, indications, and alternatives to clarify the diagnosis(es). Interprets clinical significance of diagnostic study results while considering study limitations.

Patient History Gathers, filters, prioritizes, and synthesizes patient history to develop a differential diagnosis in real‑time for complicated or atypical presentations in addition to the uncomplicated or typical.

Patient care

• Integrates clinical facts (e.g., history, exam, tests, consultations, etc.) into a unifying diagnosis(es); reappraises in real time to avoid diagnostic error.
• Organizes, prioritizes, and collaborates with others on patient care responsibilities even when patient volume approaches the capacity of the individual or facility; anticipates and triages urgent and emergent issues.
• Develops and implements informed management plans for complicated and atypical diagnoses, in addition to common and typical diagnoses, with the ability to modify plans as necessary.

Delivery room Attends deliveries independently.

Procedures as defined by clinical department Applies full competency in core procedures. May assist in mentoring less experienced APPs in the performance of procedures. Please reference the “APP Procedures Listing” for those relevant to the Medical Specialty.

Interpersonal and Communication

• Establishes a culturally competent and therapeutic relationship in straightforward and complex encounters with patients/families, including those with ambiguity and/or conflict. Elicits patient/family values and incorporates awareness of these in communications with patient/family and in patient care. Uses shared decision making with patient/family to make a personalized care plan.
• Facilitates and maintains communication with supervising physician and inter‑professional team. Coordinates recommendations to optimize patient care and foster collaborative practice.
• Concise documents updated, prioritized, diagnostic and therapeutic reasoning, including anticipatory (preventive) guidance, in the patient record. Applies increased ability to identify areas for preventive counseling. Aligns type of communication with message to be delivered (e.g., direct and…