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.
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Department
Neonatal Nurse Practitioners -
Position Status
80 hours per pay period, eligible for benefits -
Shift
12-hour clinical shifts, rotating days/nights -
Eligible Incentives
Relocation benefits eligible if relocating from 100 miles or greater
Duties & Responsibilities
- Ethics: Begins to gain self-awareness about one’s own ethical principles.
- 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. Direct medical management/ advanced practice nursing management (i.e., patient history, examination, ordering and interpreting tests, making diagnoses and instituting treatment programs, advanced procedure performance, completing discharge documentation) is authorized and performed under the direct supervision of a NNP-BC and/or a physician member of the medical staff. 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
Minimum Qualifications
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Degrees
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) & Master’s Degree Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP)
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Experience
- 1 year clinical and pediatric experience required. Minimum of 2 years of RN NICU experience.
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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