PA/NP - Regional Newborn Nursery, Fremont, MI

The Regional Newborn Nursery APP in Fremont at Gerber Hospital is responsible for the direct care and management of infants in the Level one nursery. As an Advanced Practice Provider, you'll play an integral role within the Newborn Nursey by providing high-quality, effective care to patients and their families.

The ideal candidate will possess critical thinking skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Exceptional documentation skills and professional behavior with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment are preferred.

**Experience with Newborn and/or Labor & Delivery preferred**

Responsibilities:

• Education: Provide education, instruction, guidance, and advise patients regarding medications and treatment. Communicate with and counsel family members, and recommend community resources to meet patient and family needs.
• Clinical: Complete daily rounding, perform the daily physical examination of newborns completing H&Ps, progress notes, and discharges. Attend high risk deliveries and provide care recommended by NRP guidelines, provide intubation in highly complex situations, preform procedures (circumcision, frenotomy)
• Documentation: Obtain complete, detailed, and accurate patient histories, review patient records, perform physical exams, record all pertinent data to develop comprehensive medical status, diagnosis, and clinical treatment plan for all assigned patients.
• Teamwork. Assist the on call attending physician with the care of the infants on the newborn nursery unit at Gerber Hospital.
• Collaboration: Ability to work with OB and nursing staff at Gerber, as well as within other Regional Nurseries

Qualifications: 

Nurse Practitioner: 

• Required Master's Degree Nurse Practitioners who obtained their education and certification after 2000 must show evidence of completion of a master’s, post-master’s or doctorate from a Nurse Practitioner program that is accredited by the Commission on the Collegiate of Nursing Education or the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission 

• 3 years of relevant experience current, relevant clinical experience 

• Previous experience functioning in a collaborative role as a Nurse Practitioner 

• LIC-Nurse Practitioner (NP) - State of Michigan  

• CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS)  

• CRT-Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)  

Physician Assistant: 

• Required Master's Degree Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant educational program 

• LIC-Physician Assistant - State of Michigan 

• CRT-Physician Asst Certified (PA-C) - NCCPA National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants  

• CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS)  

• CRT-Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)  

Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital: 
At Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, we fight for every child. With 350+ pediatric specialists and subspecialists, 12 years of U.S. News & World Report national rankings and innovations that draw patients from all over the world, we're driven to replace fear with hope, and doubt with answers. We believe in the possibility of every child's future.  

HDVCH is a state-of-the-art, globally integrated, 241-bed free standing dedicated children’s hospital located on the campus of Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Annually, there are 8760 inpatient and 124,600 ambulatory visits, as well as over 55,185 children seen in the Pediatric Emergency Department (Level 1 Trauma rated). HDVCH also has one of the nation’s largest NICU’s (108-beds).  

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