Neonatology Nurse Practitioner

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP)

TMC Rincon, TMC Health's newest hospital, is looking to hire full-time NNPs. Duties will include attending high-risk deliveries for neonatal resuscitation. TMC Rincon should only have low-risk deliveries, but there may be situations where the delivery becomes higher risk during labor or at the time of delivery.

Job Description

• Attend high-risk deliveries for neonatal resuscitation.
• Evaluate newborns in the hospital, when needed, due to clinical concerns. Most of this work can be done via phone, but there might be times when a baby may need to be evaluated in person. The TMC NICU physician would be the collaborating physician in these circumstances.
• Take calls from nurses about newborn patients. Calls covered for TMC Rincon during the day and overnight, and also cover TMC Newborn call overnight.
• Rotate through TMC's Level IIIb NICU periodically.

Requirements

• Knowledge of nursing care and assessment best practices.
• Knowledge of regulations and policies as it relates to patient evaluation, care, and information.
• Skill in evaluating comprehensive health assessments and evaluating results to ensure the most appropriate treatment option.
• Skill in providing the best practice patient care.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, correspondence, and procedure protocols.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to inquiries or complaints from patients and/or their representatives, and the general public.
• Ability to work with concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions, and to apply mathematical operations to solve or analyze job-related situations.
• Ability to identify positive or negative variances from expected outcomes.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Benefits

• $20,000 sign-on bonus plus relocation assistance available!