Neonatal Nurse Specialist

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.

• Department
  Neonatal Nurse Practitioners
• Position Status
  80 hours per pay period, eligible for benefits
• Shift
  12-hour clinical shifts, rotating days/nights
• Salary Information
  Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience.
  Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $90,900.58 to $136,350.88
• Eligible Incentives
  Relocation benefits eligible if relocating from 100 miles or greater
  

Duties & Responsibilities

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

1. Ethics: Begins to gain self-awareness about one's own ethical principles.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Leadership: Begin to transition from RN role. Recognizes importance of interdisciplinary care. Reviews guidelines and protocols.
5. Policy: Member of professional organization. Becomes familiar with policies that impact neonatal nursing, neonates and families.
6. Practice Inquiry: Searches literature to answer clinical questions. Reviews protocols and procedures with preceptor. Attends in-services.
7. Quality: Becomes familiar with quality improvement process. Begins to note relationship between quality and patient care.
8. Scientific foundation: Attends lectures and reads current EBP literature.
9. 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.
10. Attend fellowship educational offerings. Complete fellowship evaluations
    
    

Minimum Qualifications

• Degrees
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) & Master's Degree Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP)
    
• Experience
  • 1 year clinical and pediatric experience required. Minimum of 2 years of RN NICU experience.
    
• 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
    

Benefits Information
Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

EEO Statement
It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information. The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

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