Nurse Practitioner, Neonatal/Pediatric Hospitalist

Nurse Practitioner, Neonatal/Pediatric Hospitalist
Place of Performance: Naval Hospital Guam

Specific Tasks:

• Attend monthly onsite meetings for complicated obstetric patients (COB), the Perinatal Advisory Board (PAB), and Code Purple drill planning meetings.
• Be fully prepared to provide all emergency neonatal services required without assistance or supplementation by other MTF physicians.
• Adequately diagnose and treat diseases/injuries; perform medical procedures/tasks to include, but not limited to the following:

1. Provide acute and chronic inpatient medical care for neonatal patients in the NSU. Expedite care and facilitate consultation of complex patients to multiple specialties as needed.
2. Indicate responsibility for the content and correctness of all prepared and transcribed reports by affixing physician signature with appropriate physician stamp to the documents and validating their contents.
3. Provide immediate evaluation and management of emergent problems as they occur. Write patient progress notes and/or consultation notes at appropriate intervals as determined by local MTF policy.
4. Provide and document history, physical examinations, required or recommended laboratory and imaging examinations and diagnoses. Ensure all information is entered in the patients’ medical records. These procedures should normally be completed prior to the performance of any treatment. However, when it is deemed necessary to save life, limb, or vision through emergency treatment, the above procedures shall be accomplished as soon as possible after treatment.
5. Submit prepared documents with 24 hours.
6. Act as a consultant to the Emergency Department, Pediatric Clinic, MultiService Ward pediatric patients, and Newborn Services.

Education:

• Master’s degree in nursing.
• Graduate from an academic program, within the nursing specialty field of study that is accredited by a regional or national nursing accrediting agency recognized by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
• Certified in the specialty required by the TO as a Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) or the recognized national nursing certification organization for the specialty area of practice as appropriate (for example, National Certification Board of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Nurses, American Nurses Association, National Certification Corporation for the Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Specialties).

Certification:

• Basic Life Support
• Possess and maintain current certification in Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and The S.T.A.B.L.E. Program.

Experience:

• Minimum of one year experience within the last two years.
• Competence with NICU procedures, including intubation, umbilical line placement, arterial puncture, peripheral arterial line placement, and chest tube insertion required.
• Experience with neonatal transport preferred.

Board Certification:

• Shall be a National Certification Corporation (NCC) board certified or board eligible Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

License:

• Shall have and maintain a current, valid, unrestricted license specific to the position.