Pediatric Advanced Practice Provider; NNP - UNCFP Peds Wilmington PR
Job in
Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, 27601, USA
Listed on 2026-07-03
Listing for:
Direct Jobs
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-03
Job specializations:
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Nursing
Pediatric Nurse, Healthcare Nursing, Advanced Practice Nurse/APRN
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Description
Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well‑being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.
SummaryA Nurse Practitioner functions as part of the interdisciplinary healthcare team in accordance with privileges approved by the credentialing committee to provide high‑quality, cost‑effective care to patients within the APPs scope of practice in collaboration with a supervising physician. The APP reflects the mission, vision, and values of the organization, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and other regulatory and accreditation standards.
Responsibilities- Obtain relevant health and medical history, perform thorough physical assessment, review and interpret pertinent diagnostic tests/results.
- Develop appropriate differential diagnoses and implement treatment plans, including prescribing/ordering evidence‑based pharmacological agents consistent with departmental guidelines and privileging.
- Schedule appropriate follow‑up management and schedule preventive health screening based on age, history and patient needs.
- Maintain clear comprehensive yet concise records of all aspects of patient care and essential knowledge of general disease and pathologic processes.
- Maintain extensive knowledge of specialty literature and emerging areas.
- Consistently derive correct diagnoses through synthesis of clinical data and proper selection and interpretation of diagnostic studies.
- Prioritize work and assist staff to provide prompt and efficient client flow and high productivity according to identified standards.
- Lead/participate in projects to improve productivity and appropriately perform medical procedures consistent with departmental guidelines.
- Appropriately and professionally educate clients and/or families regarding medical conditions, treatment, and follow‑up.
- Collaborate with clinicians, staff, and students to promote continuity and patient/family centered care.
- Develop educational materials based on learning needs of clinicians, staff, and students.
- Provide education/instruction to physicians, house staff, nursing, ancillaries and/or students.
- Actively recognize and participate in identification and achievement of self‑learning needs.
- Attend education programs based on identified learning needs.
- Provide instruction to physicians, house staff, nursing, ancillaries and/or students including precepting, shadowing, lectures, training classes, CE, rounds, morning report, and/or staff meetings.
- Participate in community/network outreach programs and develop/leads such programs.
- Demonstrate understanding of healthcare contexts and systems and apply this knowledge to improve and optimize health care delivery.
- Lead/participate in systems improvements.
- Interact with patients and families respectfully, courteously, and timely using appropriate communication.
- Interact collaboratively with coworkers, other team members and staff in a respectful, courteous, and timely manner appropriate to patient care needs.
- Respond quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems.
- Accept responsibility for outcomes of work and share responsibility for overall workload with team members.
- Engage in daily continuous quality improvement by identifying and implementing processes for improvement.
- Consult with management in assessment, problem‑solving, decision‑making, and evaluating clinical/system issues and models of care.
- Lead interdisciplinary teams to provide integrated delivery of patient care services.
- Initiate and revise protocols or guidelines to reflect evidence‑based changes in care management.
- Influence policy‑making bodies to improve patient care and develop new clinical programs or services within the department/unit/clinic to improve patient care.
- Completion of an accredited graduate‑level Advanced Practice Provider (APRN or PA) program.
- Licensed as an Advanced Practice Provider (i.e., Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Clinical Pharmacist Practitioner, Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Registered Nurse…
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