Nemours is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider to join our Nemours Children’s Perinatal Program in Wilmington, DE.
The Nemours Fetal Care Center and Advanced Delivery Unit are expanding the scope of service to include comprehensive prenatal, obstetrical and postpartum care for women whose unborn child has been diagnosed with a birth defect or complex medical condition that will require immediate multidisciplinary pediatric care in the neonatal period. In addition to currently available prenatal imaging to diagnose these conditions, we are also expanding invasive diagnostics and fetal intervention procedures. The NFCC-APP will work with the Maternal-Fetal Medicine physicians, Obstetricians and the entire multidisciplinary team to provide full scope maternal care including prenatal care, postpartum care, inpatient care, assist in fetal procedures in the outpatient setting and in the operating room, and assessment of fetal well-being. In this role, the qualified NFCC-APP will play an integral role in the care and support of these patients throughout their high-risk pregnancy journey into the postpartum period.
Essential Functions
• Provide comprehensive prenatal and postpartum care in person and via phone/telehealth visits
• Perform preoperative and postoperative evaluations
• Round on fetal intervention patients during their hospital stay
• Provide care in a supportive, family centered approach
• Provide patient education and counseling
• Assist in fetal procedures (outpatient and operating room)
• Assist in coordination of multidisciplinary care
• Assess fetal well-being using electronic fetal monitoring in conjunction with ultrasound data
• Review prenatal records, laboratory studies, and imaging results, incorporating all data into a comprehensive patient care plan
• Communicate care plan with patient and answer patient questions
• Document patient encounters in EMR
• Mentor and educate junior APPs and students, sonographers, genetic counseling students, medical students, residents, and fellows, and other allied health professionals
• Participate in quality and performance improvement efforts including the development and review of policies and procedures related to clinical care performed
• Opportunities to participate in educational and research activities
Qualifications
Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner or Certified Nurse Midwife
DE RN (or compact state), DE APRN, DE CSR, DE DEA
Hold National certification as WHNP-BC or Certified Nurse Midwife
Minimum 5 years’ experience in women’s health/prenatal/obstetric care
Experience interpreting electronic fetal monitoring
Experience with sterile technique
Experience functioning as scrub technician and first assist preferred
Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.
Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.
Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.
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Nemours Children's Health is committed to improving the health of children. As a non-profit children’s health organization, we consider the health of every child to be a sacred trust.
Through family-centered care in our children’s hospitals and clinics in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, as well as world-changing research, education and advocacy, Nemours fulfills the promise of a healthier tomorrow for all children — even those who may never enter our doors.
Nemours began more than 80 years ago with the vision of Alfred I. duPont to improve the lives of children and to do whatever it takes to prevent and treat even the most disabling childhood conditions.
Today, through our children’s hospitals and health system, we directly care for 250,000 children annually in Delaware Valley and Florida, including families who travel from across the country and world to see our specialists — treating every child as we would our own.
We also reach beyond the walls of our hospitals and clinics to be a voice for children on a national and international level, and to lead the way in prevention, intervention, education, and research.
Nemours is growing to better serve the children and families in our care. We have 1.1 million square feet of space currently devoted to providing children’s healthcare or under construction, all designed with significant input and advice from our patients and families.
