**Overview** **The Pediatric and Adolescent Dermatology Nurse Practitioner performs the role utilizing the patient-centered coordinated care model demonstrated through the following competencies: leadership, direct clinical practice, consultation/collaboration, coaching/guiding, research, and ethical decision making. The NP will join three Pediatric Dermatologists and a Nurse Practitioner in the Paramus office. This position is 5 days a week, Monday through Friday, 8 hour days, no weekend, holiday or on-call requirements.** **Responsibilities** **Leadership** **1. Participates in decisions affecting APRN practice and in opportunities to advance nursing practice within the institution.** **2. Seeks opportunities to promote HackensackUMC APRN practice recognition locally, nationally, and internationally at conferences, round table discussions, manuscript publications in journals and texts, and conference presentations (poster and podium).** **3. Provides excellence in the patient experience through modeling Service Excellence Standards.** **4. Communicates a shared vision with the department of patient care and the department of specialty practice.** **5. Participates in APRN interviewing, credentialing, and peer review process as requested.** **6. Participates in a minimum of one professional specialty organization.** **7. Supports the nursing blueprint by providing evidence of practice outcomes.** **8. Displays support of the institutional pillars through systems management, change management, and scholarly practices.** **9. Ensures consistency with HackensackUMC nursing protocols, standards of care, and accomplishment of disease specific quality indicators.** **10. Provides 24/7 patient care coverage. Evidence-based Practice (direct clinical practice)** **11. Applies evidence and value-based practices to achieve positive outcomes for patients and families.** **12. Evaluates patient/family transition of care planning for resource utilization, cost, quality, and promotion of self-management for chronic health maintenance.** **13. Demonstrates clinical expertise by utilizing advanced assessment and leadership skills.** **14. Completes medication reconciliations.** **15. Completes annual APN peer review.** **16. Evaluates current protocols and standards of care for translation of 'best practice' into clinical practice.** **17. Provides culturally diverse and educationally appropriate health management education.** **18. Facilitates patient-centered coordinated care through participation at daily interdisciplinary team rounds and staff RN patient rounding.** **19. Supports organizational and department of patient care strategies through annual professional cascading goals.** **20. Coordinates the development of evidenced-based practice protocols and standards of care that include interventions and treatments to achieve desired outcomes.** **21. Aligns practices with the organizational pillars.** **22. Analyzes patterns of variance in practice and makes recommendations for evidence based practice changes to improve patient outcomes.** **23. Serves as a clinical resource to nursing staff, patients/families, and other multidisciplinary team members across the continuum to evaluate complex patients and identify appropriate interventions and evaluation of outcomes.** **24. Identifies practice gaps and initiates practice changes supportive of evidence-based practice 'best practices' with nursing staff within area of practice and population.** **25. Participates in policy/procedure reviews for updating with current evidence-based and value-based practices.** **Consultation/Collaboration** **26. Acts as a resource to staff for addressing clinical, process, and system opportunities for improvement which promote excellence in care and clinical outcomes.** **27. Serves as a member of organizational and departmental meetings, work-groups, and committees as requested representing APRNs and/or the department of patient care.** **28. Builds credibility with medical staff as nursing experts for patient care, quality of care, and the profession of nursing.** **29. Collaborates with medical staff leaders to support nursing-led protocols to enhance the nurse's ability to function at their highest level of education and skill applying 'lean' system and change management principles.** **30. Acts as a mentor for APRN and graduate students of other disciplines.** **31. Acts as a clinical resource for evidence based practice.** **32. Identifies educational needs of patients/families and collaborates with other multidisciplinary team members to implement appropriate teaching materials.** **Coaching/Guiding** **33. Coaches nursing and other disciplines on applying evidence-based and value-based care.** **34. Participates in enhancing RN practice, applying expert clinical skills, through staff RN patient rounding and making recommendations for improvement in inter-shift 'hand-off' communications for assessments, nursing quality indicators, and core measure assessments.** **35. Facilitates, coordinates, and participates in formal or informal nursing educational programs as clinical experts.** **36. Creates a shared vision for patient and family-centered care by applying shared governance concepts to engage staff and other disciplines in decision-making.** **37. Promotes a collaborative work environment which supports the organizational mission, behavior expectations, values, and pillars (quality, people, finance, growth, and service).** **Research** **38. Utilizes and disseminates relevant research findings through clinical practice, education or consultation.** **39. Promotes innovation within clinical practice by seeking opportunities to bring new clinical knowledge into practice.** **40. Actively engages in research as a primary investigator or co-investigator.** **41. Acts as a mentor and or reviewer for research proposals.** **42. Disseminates research findings to enhance the practice of nursing by participating as presenters at conferences locally, nationally, and internationally and through publications. Ethical decision-making** **43. Identifies ethical care issues and coordinates interdisciplinary collaborative meetings to resolve those issues.** **Qualifications** **Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:** **1. Graduate of an NLN/AACN accredited program in nursing.** **2. Master's degree.** **3. Maintains clinical competencies through participating in continuing educational programs (contact hours per years), and clinical practice as mandated by Board of Nursing and national certification body.** **4. Experience in relevant patient care setting or as regulations dictate.** **5. In collaborative agreement with physicians on staff- fulfills terms of collaborative agreement.** **Licenses and Certifications Required:** **1. NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License.** **2. Advance Practice Nurse License.** **3. AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification.** **4. Maintains Nation or Board Certification as appropriate in area of specialty.** **Job ID** _2024-156962_ **Department** _FROM HWC CtrPed&Adol Derm_HUMG_ **Site** _HMHMG Specialty Care 570_ **Job Location** _US-NJ-Hackensack_ **Position Type** _Full Time with Benefits_ **Standard Hours Per Week** _40_ **Shift** _Day_ **Shift Hours** _varies_ **Weekend Work** _No Weekends Required_ **On Call Work** _No On-Call Required_ **Holiday Work** _No Holidays Required_