Advanced Practice Provider -Pediatrics Hospital Per Diem

Nemours Children's Health, Jacksonville is seeking a casual/per diem Advanced Practice Provider to join our pediatrics hospital team!

This position provides care for pediatric patients, including interviews patients, obtains and records health histories, completes physical and developmental assessments, diagnoses health problems, manages the health care of those patients for which he/she has been educated, provides health care teaching and counseling, initiates referrals and maintains health records in the inpatient and/or outpatient settings.

Key Responsibilities:


* Provides care to pediatric patients as guided by education, clinical expertise and Scope of Practice Agreement, including ambulatory and inpatient (acute) care


* Elicits comprehensive or focused/interval health history


* Performs complete or interim physical examinations as indicated by the nature of the encounter


* Orders, performs, and/or interprets diagnostic or screening tests, including laboratory, radiological or other tests within the APP'S scope of practice


* Plans interventions including medications, treatments and procedures, and modifies plans based on evaluation of patient response.


* Initiates, monitors, alters or orders medications related to conditions or illnesses being treated within applicable divisions

Qualifications:


* Current certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants or current certification as Pediatric Nurse Practitioner


* Florida Licensure as a Physician Assistant required upon hire or Florida Licensure as an Advanced Practice Nurse required upon hire


* Acute or Primary Care Certification acceptable, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner preferred (PNP-PC or PNP-AC) if an Advanced Practice Nurse


* BLS required upon hire


* Prior healthcare/patient care experience strongly preferred


* Experience working with Pediatrics or Child Health preferred


* Federal DEA registration either active or required upon hire

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...