CSH Advanced Practice Nurse Fellow at RWJBarnabas Health – Union, New Jersey

Job Title: CSH Advanced Practice Nurse Fellow

Location: Union (UNC)

Department Name: Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics

Req #: 0000238658

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $90,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

Job Overview:

The APN fellow is a licensed independent practitioner who is responsible for managing health problems and coordinating health care for children in accordance with professional standards and hospital guidelines. The APN fellow will receive extensive education and training in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics for a period of one year, with increasing independence and progression throughout the year. The APN fellow will work collaboratively with other members of the medical staff and interdisciplinary team to provide care to children with special health care needs. The APN fellow provides staff and patient education and is an integral member of the health care team.

Developmental Advanced Practice Nurse Fellowship Overview:

The Developmental Behavioral APN Fellowship is an intensive 12 month program designed to provide advanced didactic education with focused clinical experience to prepare the APN to provide optimal care to children with developmental needs. The APN Fellowship Program is integrated with the ACGME Fellowship program in Behavioral Pediatrics at CSH so that APN fellows will receive comparable training and experiences in the first year. The APN fellow will also complete the Rutgers Boggs Center LEND, Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disorders Fellowship. The goal of the program is to provide APNs with depth, breadth, volume and intensity of clinical training to independently manage children with special health care needs. Graduates of this APN fellowship will receive a certificate of completion from CSH as well as completion from Ohio State University for the online portion of the KYSS mental health fellowship.

Shift:

• M-F 8a-4p

Qualifications

Required:

• Masters or Doctoral degree in nursing, with a minimum 3.5 GPA
• National board certification as an NP
• NJ state RN license
• NJ state APN license
• CDS, DEA
• BLS

Preferred:

• Pediatric Nurse practitioner graduates
• open to Family NPs
• Experience in Pediatric Nursing is strongly preferred.

The DBP APN Fellowship program will provide the trainee with varied clinical and educational opportunities to prepare them for autonomous practice at CSH. The fellow will be provided opportunities for the following during the fellowship:

• Understand the complex developmental processes of infants, children, adolescents and young adults, in the context of their families and communities.
• Understand the biological, psychological, and social influences on development in the emotional, social, motor, language, and cognitive domains.
• Understand the mechanisms for primary and secondary prevention of disorders in behavior and development.
• Be able to identify and treat disorders of behavior and development throughout childhood and adolescence.

The fellow will be considered a full time salaried employee of CSH, eligible for benefits, and will be a member of the medical staff.

The fellow will sign a 3 year contract of employment, one year of fellowship, two years of employment with CSH post fellowship, in a full time capacity. This assumes satisfactory job performance.

Oversight of the program will be by the Director of APP fellowships/Lead APN for DBP in conjunction with the Chief Medical Officer and the Section Chief Developmental Pediatrics. The primary preceptor will be an interested and willing physician who has completed a GME developmental behavior pediatric training program in addition to a senior APN for APN role development.

Application will include a narrative statement of interest in this specialty and goals for future professional growth.