Neonatal Intensive Care Unit APP (Neonatal Nurse Practitioner or Neonatal Physician Assistant)
Core
Provide critical/intensive care, discharge planning, and lead high-risk deliveries for infants in a 25-bed Level IIIB NICU under neonatologist supervision.
Role type
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner or Neonatal Physician Assistant (APP)
Builds
Patient care plans, procedural interventions, and family support in a Level IIIB NICU
Domain
Healthcare / Neonatology
Required skills
Neonatal intensive care, newborn resuscitation, umbilical line placement, endotracheal intubation, lumbar puncture, pneumothorax decompression, circumcision, order entry, documentation, emergency response
Preferred skills
PALS certification, teaching experience, quality improvement participation
Technologies
EPIC EHR
Responsibilities
Provide critical/intensive care and discharge planning for patients in the NICU as part of a multidisciplinary team; Attend and lead high-risk deliveries in accordance with NRP; Perform basic procedures of neonatal intensive care including but not limited to newborn resuscitation, umbilical line placement, endotracheal intubation, lumbar puncture, decompression of pneumothorax, circumcision; Provide consultation for antepartum birthing patients and patients in the nursery; Navigate order entry, documentation and communication in the EPIC EHR; Participate in mission time work including QI projects, medical education, committee work or other scholarly activity
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on clinical provider