NICU CNS or CNS Fellow (currently enrolled in CNS program)

Nemours is seeking a CNS or CNS fellow (currently enrolled in program) to join our NICU team here in Wilmington, DE! The Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU), Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) is an advanced practice nursing role that is responsible for improvement and maintenance of scientifically based clinical nursing care in the NICU. The NICU, CNS intervenes at the infant/family, the nurse, and at the systems level.  In collaboration with the health care team, the Clinical Nurse Specialist provides expert family centered clinical care and clinical consultation within the NICU to improve outcomes and to promote integrated health care that is safe, equitable, timely, effective, and efficient.  The NICU, CNS achieves this by providing direct and indirect care for infants and their families, promoting professional development, disseminating and conducting research and contributing to and leading clinical policy and procedure development and revision.

Position is a full-time, 36 hours per week role. 

Responsibilities:

• Clinical judgment:  Models advanced assessment and interpretation, implements nursing care, and evaluates outcomes for patient populations. 
• Facilitator of Learning: Demonstrates clinical expertise while supporting clinical nurses to integrate new evidence into practice. Provides education or teaching skills to clinical teams, patients and family. 
• Collaboration: Focuses on (and role models) interprofessional team building and effective team functioning.
• Response to Diversity:  Reviews alternative approaches and implementing planned change to meet needs considering cultural, social, family and system diversity. 
• Clinical Inquiry: Interprets and uses research to evaluate practice, and collaborates in research. 
• Systems Thinking: Responsible for innovation and change in the patient care system. Able to make connections within components. 
• Advocacy/Moral Agency: Influences the negotiation of moral dilemmas, allocating resources, directing patient care and access to care.
• Caring Practices: Responds to subtle patient and family changes: engages with each unique patient in a compassionate manner.   

Qualifications:

• Graduate of accredited school of nursing, CNS required (or currently enrolled in CNS program)
• Minimum 5 year related clinical experience
• Active Delaware (or compact state) Registered Nurse Licensure Required
• Active Delaware (or compact state) Advanced Practice
• Board Certification Clinical Nurse Specialist (or eligible to get certification) 

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org.