Advanced Practice Provider
Core
Provide direct patient care, formulate care plans, and manage health problems for critically ill newborns in a Level III NICU.
Role type
Advanced Practice Provider (Neonatal Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant)
Builds
Direct patient care and stabilization of compromised infants in delivery room, NICU, and emergency settings.
Domain
Healthcare / Neonatology / Critical Care
Required skills
Direct patient care, pharmacological therapy management, CPR and resuscitation, therapeutic techniques, patient stabilization and transport, diagnostic strategies, therapeutic interventions, adverse drug reaction management, QI monitoring, policy development, precepting students.
Preferred skills
Resuscitation, intubation, line placement, physical examinations, health assessments, clinical judgment, independent judgment, documentation and billing.
Technologies
EPIC
Responsibilities
Provide direct patient care and formulate plan of care in collaboration with physician, nursing staff, and the multidisciplinary health team; Prescribe and evaluate pharmacological therapies according to protocol; Attend both high and low risk deliveries as needed; Initiate CPR and perform therapeutic techniques to stabilize a compromised infant; Stabilize and transport patients as needed; Participate in clinical research projects; Serve as preceptor to APP students.
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC