Pediatric Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant | Crisis Center - Evening Shift

Children's Mercy KC • Kansas City, MO

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About The Position

Children’s Mercy is hiring a full-time advanced practice provider for its Emergency Mental Health Crisis Center, a specialized unit within the Adele Hall Emergency Department for children experiencing behavioral health emergencies. The center provides screening, assessment, triage, referrals, care coordination, short-term stabilization, treatment recommendations, and care navigation for families in crisis. Its therapeutic setting includes safe rooms, consult rooms, observation beds, and triage rooms.

The provider will deliver autonomous direct patient management and collaborate with emergency medicine and psychiatry physicians. The role includes assessing and treating patients within the collaborative practice agreement and helping coordinate their care and disposition. The position consists of four 8-hour evening shifts per week.

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses II provide proficient, comprehensive, evidence-based care addressing patients’ and families’ physiologic, psychosocial, and developmental needs. They also demonstrate professional leadership and participate in evidence-based practice, quality improvement, research activities, and organizational development. A seasonal influenza vaccine is a condition of employment; new employees must also be willing to receive specified vaccinations if non-immune or lacking evidence of vaccination, subject to medical or religious exemptions.

Requirements

• Master’s degree.
• 1–2 years of pediatric RN experience; exceptions may be considered case by case within the preferred specialty.
• Missouri Registered Nurse license or multistate RN license, required upon hire.
• Kansas Registered Nurse license or multistate RN license, required upon hire.
• RN compact license for states other than Kansas and Missouri.
• APRN board certification congruent with the population and practice setting, required upon hire.
• Successful national board certification as a Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP) in Missouri and Kansas, required upon hire.
• Required life support certifications, as specified in the Nursing and Advanced Practice Provider Licensure and Certification policy.

Nice To Haves

• Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP); the posting also lists 1–2 years of pediatric RN experience, with case-by-case exceptions within the preferred specialty.
• Specialty certification relevant to the unit’s patient population, as determined by the Nurse Manager or Director.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive, evidence-based advanced practice nursing care based on patients’ and families’ physiologic, psychosocial, and developmental needs within the collaborative practice agreement.
• Complete thorough health histories and physical examinations.
• Order and interpret laboratory tests, develop differential diagnoses, and formulate and implement plans of care and treatment.
• Prescribe or perform diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and procedures.
• Coordinate the patient disposition process.
• Participate in patient and family education.
• Communicate clearly with families and collaborate with emergency medicine physicians, physician trainees, psychiatry, nursing staff, and emergency department subspecialties.
• Advance nursing practice and positively influence care for children and families.
• Use evidence to translate science into practice and improve patient and family outcomes through evidence-based practice, quality improvement, or research inquiry.
• Influence organizational policy to achieve and sustain practice improvements and strategic initiatives.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level