Neonatal Nurse Prac Lead Longs Peak Level II NICU
4 weeks ago
Location Aurora, Colorado
Full/Part Time Full-Time
Regular/Temporary Regular
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Job OverviewThe Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) Lead is responsible for managing a team of NNPs in a clinical practice location and leading team members in providing direct patient care by demonstrating expert clinical knowledge; ensuring compliance with quality and safety initiatives and practices; and partnering with a multidisciplinary team in meeting the clinical needs of patients and families. The NNP Lead also provides leadership and management to the clinical practice location team members and is the point of contact for any birth place, SCN/NICU, or OB concerns related to neonates or the CHCO NNP Program. The NNP Lead will provide oversite of team member performance and collaborate with the team and clinical practice site on unit specific goals and initiatives, policy/procedure/guideline consultation/development, team member education. Finally, the NNP Lead serves as a point person for team scheduling, payroll, and onboarding/orientation of team members to their clinical practice location.
**In addition to this role, the Lead NNP will also fulfill the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner-NICU Job Description for all clinical time.
Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a Level 4, 82-bed regional referral center for the seven-state region with a platinum-level designation for ECMO. We treat neonate, infant and pediatric patients less than 2 years old with conditions including hypoxemic respiratory failure, infections, hematological, neurological, cardiovascular, metabolic disorders, single major or multiple anomalies requiring diagnostic work-up and/or surgical intervention. We provide continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), renal dialysis and body cooling for neonates among many other therapies to provide the highest level of neonatal care to infants and their families. The culture in the NICU includes great teamwork and support for nurses who are learning and growing. Children's Hospital Colorado provides many opportunities for advancement within a Clinical Advancement Program for nurses.
Additional InformationThis position is eligible for relocation assistance, if relocating from 100 miles or greater.
Department Name: Neonatal Nurse Practitioners
Job Status: full time, 40 hours per week, eligible for benefits
Shift: days, M-F generally, but nights, weekends, and on call responsibilities may be necessary
**This position will support the Level II NICU team at the Long's Peak location in Longmont, CO
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Qualifications- Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing & Master's Degree NNP
- Experience: Three years' in a NNP role
- Certification(s): BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association; Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certificate and optional Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
- Licensure(s): Registered Nurse License (RN); Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) License; Prescriptive Authority License; Board Certification as a NNP; Credentialing must be completed by the Medical Staff Office (MSO) within 3 months of employment
Responsibilities
POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE
- Neonate - 30 days to 1yr
- Toddlers - >1yr to 2yrs
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
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.
- Reviews and maintains awareness of unit/department specific policies, procedures, and guidelines while ensuring consistency with evidence-based practice were applicable.
- Leads team members in providing direct patient care by demonstrating expert clinical knowledge and promoting professional standards in daily work.
- Provides oversight of schedules and assigning team members to patients.
- Interprets and explains regulatory standards and hospital policies, procedures, and rules to employees and ensures compliance with applicable quality and safety initiatives and practices.
- Ensures staffing resources are utilized appropriately and shifts resources to meet both patient and unit needs.
- Partners with a multidisciplinary team in meeting the clinical needs of patients and families. Rounds with patients, families and team members to promote patient family experience and quality patient care.
- Resolves operational and patient/family issues, making decisions that are inclusive of multiple perspectives and solves underlying problems.
- Assists team members in achieving unit outcomes, performance and professional development standards; identifies opportunities for continual improvement.
- Champions clinical practice and professional growth by working with the clinical practice site team to meet the educational needs of the unit/department.
- Develops, coaches, and evaluates team members. Mentors team members in creating/evaluating projects focused on improving clinical practice.
- Provides advice to Clinical Manager on decisions involving hiring, terminations, promotions, and disciplinary actions as required.
Other Information
SCOPE AND LEVEL
- Guidelines: Advanced full performance professional level work that requires additional knowledge, education, training or experience. Guidelines are generally in the form of stated objectives only with issues and factors largely undefined requiring the employee to exercise creativity and ingenuity in devising criteria, techniques, strategy, and methodologies for approaching assigned functions or projects.
- Complexity: Duties performed involve concepts, theories, and concrete factors to be evaluated and weighed requiring a high degree of analytical ability, independent judgment, and decision-making. Acts as a subject matter expert in the field of expertise.
- Decision Making: Exercises judgment and discretion, and is responsible for determining the time, place and sequence of the work performed.
- Communications: Contacts with team members, clients or the public where some degree of discretion and judgment are required in carrying out a major program and/or function of the organization.
- Supervision Received: Performs work with minimal supervisory oversight. Work assignment is generally unstructured and employee is responsible for organizing complex, varied, and simultaneous coordination of several functions, programs, or projects in various stages of completion.
Physical Requirements
Ability to Perform Essential Functions of the Job
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Body Movement
- Will frequently stand/walk for 6-8 hours per day.
- Will frequently use hands while keyboarding and writing.
- Will frequently sit for 2-4 hours per day while accessing computer, talking on the telephone, and while attending meetings.
- Back and Upper Body (lifting and carrying)
- Will occasionally lift/force exerted up to 100 pounds.
Vision
- Constantly uses sight in performance for daily job duties.
Hearing
- Constantly uses hearing in performance for daily job duties.
Others
- Able to assist or assume direct patient care as census directly permits. Exposure to unsteady or falling patient: In the course of transferring a patient, may encounter a patient who falls or loses balance, causing employee to fall and/or bear the full weight of a patient.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Exposure: Exposure to blood/body fluid: Regular/Frequent.
- Exposure: Exposure to heights: Occasional.
- Exposure: Exposure to infectious diseases: Frequent.
- Exposure: Exposure to radiation: Occasional.
- Exposure: Exposure to lung irritations: Occasional.
- Mental and Emotional Requirements: Independent discretion/decision making.
- Mental and Emotional Requirements: Makes decisions under pressure.
- Mental and Emotional Requirements: Manages stress appropriately.
- Mental and Emotional Requirements: Works with others effectively.
Equal Employment Opportunity
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.
Salary Information
Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $140,287.01 to $210,430.52Hourly Salary Range: $67.45 to $101.17
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.
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