Neonatal Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant, Part-time
Nemours Childrens Hospital, Florida
- Wilmington, DE
- Part-time
Job description
The Nemours Neonatology team is looking for an experienced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our NICU in Wilmington, Delaware. We are expanding this year, adding 14 new inpatient rooms. With this expansion, the NICU will house 46 beds as a contiguous unit. This can be a part-time or moonlighting position.
Our shifts are all rotating and will require holiday commitments.
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Nemours Children's provides the best start in life for babies born too early or with medical problems. Our NICU is Level IV, which is the highest level of neonatal care.
Newborn medicine specialists, or neonatologists, take care of babies around-the-clock in this high-tech unit. Pediatric surgeons and experts in every specialty have direct access to the NICU.
Key Responsibilities:
• Manages and provides care for the patient requiring neonatal intensive care utilizing collaborative consultation with team members, under the direction and supervision (but not necessarily the direct attendance) of an attending neonatologist.
• Receives a distressed neonate in the Delivery Room and initiates appropriate intervention.
• Performs a complete newborn physical examination and assessment of gestational age, discriminating between normal and abnormal findings.
• Conducts parent interviews and takes family history.
• Collaborates with neonatologists concerning pertinent historical events, physical findings, diagnostic and therapeutic measures initiated on all admissions.
• Orders appropriate laboratory tests and procedures.
• Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures necessary and appropriate for the care of the patient.
• Reviews and provides general care items involved in neonatal care, such as temperature stabilization, hyperalimentation therapy, feeding management, and phototherapy.
• Participates in daily rounds in NICU.
• Rotating shifts required
Qualifications
• Neonatal NP/Physician Assistant experience preferred
• NNP: Current unrestricted Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner License to practice in Delaware; Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Certification via National Certification Center; BLS and NRP Certification upon hire
• PA-C: Current unrestricted Physician Assistant License to practice in Delaware; National Certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. Must have neonatal experience or have completed a Neonatal Fellowship.
• Current American Heart Association BLS and NRP Certification
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