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Experienced Neonatal Advanced Practice Provider

Nemours
Nemours Salary
Wilmington, DE Part Time
POSTED ON 3/29/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/5/2025
Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Nemours Neonatology team is looking for part time experienced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our expanding NICU in Wilmington, Delaware. We will be expanding in 2025, adding 14 new inpatient rooms. With this expansion, the NICU will house 45 beds as a contiguous unit. Our shifts are all rotating and will require holiday commitments.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) at Nemours Children's provide the best start in life for babies born too early or with medical problems. Our NICUs are Level IV, which is the highest level of neonatal care.

Newborn medicine specialists, or neonatologists, take care of babies around-the-clock in this high-tech unit. Pediatric surgeons and experts in every specialty have direct access to the NICU.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manages and provides care for the patient requiring neonatal intensive care utilizing collaborative consultation with team members, under the direction and supervision (but not necessarily the direct attendance) of an attending neonatologist.
  • Receives a distressed neonate in the Delivery Room and initiates appropriate intervention.
  • Performs a complete newborn physical examination and assessment of gestational age, discriminating between normal and abnormal findings.
  • Conducts parent interviews and takes family history.
  • Collaborates with neonatologists concerning pertinent historical events, physical findings, diagnostic and therapeutic measures initiated on all admissions.
  • Orders appropriate laboratory tests and procedures.
  • Performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures necessary and appropriate for the care of the patient.
  • Reviews and provides general care items involved in neonatal care, such as temperature stabilization, hyperalimentation therapy, feeding management, and phototherapy.
  • Participates in daily rounds in NICU.
  • Rotating shifts required

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary with generous sign on bonus
  • Extensive benefits package that includes quality-based bonus incentives, relocation allowance, life insurance, comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • CME and board maintenance allowances
  • Retirement plan with employer matching and an additional 457B retirement savings plan
  • Educational allowance, paid licensure and malpractice fees, and professional membership dues allowance.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 2 years Neonatal NP/Physician Assistant experience preferred
  • NNP: Current unrestricted Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner License to practice in the state(s) in which privileges are sought; Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Certification via National Certification Center; BLS and NRP Certification upon hire
  • PA-C: Current unrestricted Physician Assistant License to practice in the state(s) in which privileges are sought; National Certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants
  • Current American Heart Association BLS and NRP Certification

More about Delaware

Delaware has three distinctly different regions, each with its own style, character, and wide range of possibilities to satisfy a spectrum of interests; beaches, state parks, golf courses, vineyards and sophisticated urban attractions.

Wilmington is a beautiful city filled with schools, museums, theatres, restaurants, and garden paths. Of note, is the cultural legacy of the duPont Family including the 235-acre Hagley Museum and Library situated along the Brandywine River, and the Nemours Estate which was modeled after Versailles. The Estate is adjacent to Nemours Children’s Hospital and offers employees and visitors respite among the decorative arts and scenic gardens.

About Us

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 .

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