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Posted: 27-Jan-26
Location: Aurora, Colorado
Type: Full Time
Salary: $130,499.55- $195,749.32
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Internal Number: 103159
The Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) provides expert Family-Centered Care across the wellness-illness continuum, providing primary, acute, chronic and critical care to infants and toddlers up to age 2 years. In collaboration with other health care providers the NNP will provide initial, ongoing and comprehensive care, including taking complete histories; providing physical examinations and diagnosing, treating and managing patients with acute and chronic illnesses and diseases. This includes ordering, performing, supervising, and interpreting laboratory and imaging studies; prescribing medication and durable medical equipment; and making appropriate referrals for patients and families. In addition, NNP care also includes health promotion, disease prevention, health education, and counseling. The NNP will function as a leader within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. Identifies and demonstrates incorporation of best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care at the unit or organization level.
- Location
Children's Hospital Colorado Level IV NICU on the Anschutz campus in Aurora - Position Status
Multiple FTEs available depending on level of relevant experience and candidate desire.
Must work 20 hours/week to be eligible for benefits. - Shift
Primarily 12-hour days and nights with opportunity for 24-hour shifts - Salary Information
$130,499.55 to $195,749.32 annually (based on 1.0 FTE)
Pay is dependent on applicant's relevant experience. - Eligible Incentives
This position is eligible for a sign-on bonus up to $20,000 for qualified external applicants.
Relocation assistance available if relocating from 100 miles or greater.
Duties & Responsibilities
Family Centered Care:
- Consistently integrates age specific age specific and culturally diverse concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient’s chronological age and developmental functioning.
- Advocates for the neonatal patient/family/caregiver
- Promotes self-management & family centered care
- Derives outcomes & plans of care that involve the patient/family/caregiver when possible & are realistic to the patient/family/caregiver capabilities & resources
- Provides patient/family/caregiver with diagnostic & laboratory results as well as actual/potential benefits, limitations, & adverse effects of proposed therapies.
Teamwork & Collaboration:
- Provides leadership in care management to achieve optimal quality, cost-effective care.
- Documents & communicates with healthcare team members to achieve an integrated delivery of pediatric care services.
- Delegates appropriate monitoring, assessment, & interventions according to the patient and scope of practice of the caregiver; Provides consultation to influence the identified plan of care, to enhance the abilities of others to provide health care, and to effect change in the healthcare system.
- Makes appropriate referrals and discusses recommendations with patient/family/caregiver.
Quality Improvement:
- Participates in quality improvement activities or research to improve the care delivery process & patient care outcomes; Uses & communicates results to initiate change in practice
- Uses creativity, new knowledge, & innovation to improve care
Safety:
- Maintains a professional practice while utilizing evidenced based practice
- Communicates and demonstrates critical thinking for patient care management
- Is mindful and judicious in monitoring safety and departmental policies and procedures
- NNP maintains clinical competency (ability to independently manage and perform at a high level and takes personal responsibility for obtaining competency as needed).
- Prescribes appropriate pharmacologic/non-pharmacological agents & interventions that are both universal & unique to the patient, & monitors/evaluates effects.
- Employs diverse & complex strategies, interventions, & teaching to promote health & a safe environment
- Orders and/or performs appropriate treatments, therapies, & procedures that are based on current knowledge, research, & practice.
Informatics:
- Uses information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error and support decision making.
Leadership:
- Takes action to achieve goals identified during performance appraisal & peer review, resulting in changes in practice & role performance
- Participates in lifelong learning that improves skills & competence in clinical practice/role performance.
- Serves as preceptor, role model, or mentor
- Contributes to the professional development of peers/colleagues to improve neonatal health care & to foster the profession’s growth; Integrates ethical considerations & research findings into practice
- Provides leadership by participating on committees or in professional organizations, or writing/publishing/presenting.
- Serves as a leader, influencing healthcare/APN practice & policy.
Minimum Qualifications
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- Degrees
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing & Master’s Degree NNP
- Experience
- Three years’ combined experience as RN or NNP in a neonatal setting. High risk neonatal setting experience preferred.
- Licenses & Certifications
- 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
- BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association; Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certificate and optional Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
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