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The RN Clinical Instructor directs, oversees, and maintains responsibility for clinical orientation for nursing clinical fellows. Serves as a "hands-on" direct care giving and teaching role with patients, families and nursing clinical fellows. Directly supervises activities of nursing clinical fellows.
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is a 70 bed Level IV NICU. Care is delivered to infants and families transported from approximately 40 regional community hospitals in three states. The patient ages typically range from 23 weeks gestation to 37 weeks gestation, term infants and older children with multiple disease processes. Comprehensive services include medical-surgical care for infants with conditions including but not limited to pre-maturity, genetic disorders, pulmonary disorders and cardiac disorders. The unit also provides for the inter-hospital transportation of infants as well as ECMO services.
The NICU is ranked nationally every year by in neonatology, and we are the only top 10 ranked program in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We treat more than 800 babies every year. Our success is rooted in our dedication to providing family centered care in a collaborative and respectful interdisciplinary environment.
Children's National NICU is a regional referral center for neonatal patients requiring ECMO therapy for respiratory failure, and for neonatal patients requiring whole body cooling for treatment of birth asphyxia/hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
As a Level IV NICU, we offer the highest level of care for premature and ill newborns, as designated by The American Academy of Pediatrics. This means we can:
The department utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach to care utilizing the services of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, unit specific pharmacist and dietitians, and other support services necessary to provide quality care. A full-time Neonatal Transport Team consisting of specialty trained neonatal transport nursing personnel, neonatal Respiratory Therapists, and for complex cases, a Neonatology fellow or attending physician conducts transport. The team can transport via ambulance, helicopter, or fixed wing air transport as needed.
Children's National Hospital, based in Washington, DC, celebrates 150 years of pediatric care, research and commitment to community. Volunteers opened the hospital in 1870 with 12 beds for children displaced after the Civil War. Today, it is among the nation's top 10 children's hospitals. Children's National is transforming pediatric medicine for all children. Children's National has been designated a Magnet hospital, demonstrating the highest standards of nursing and patient care delivery. Our pediatric academic health system offers expert care through a convenient, community-based primary care network and specialty outpatient centers in the D.C., metropolitan area, including the Maryland and Northern Virginia suburbs. Children's National is home to the and , and a top NIH-funded children's hospital. It is recognized for its expertise and innovation in pediatric care, and as a strong voice for children through advocacy at the local, regional and national levels.
All nursing practice is based on the legal scope of practice, national and specialty nursing standards, CNMC Policies and Procedures, and in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations. The Professional Model of Care requires registered professional nurses to be responsible and accountable for their own practice. CNMC supports the development of RN relationships within the community; specifically those relationships associated with the health and well being of the community at large.
Minimum Education
BSN (Required)
Minimum Work Experience
5 years NICU Nursing experience required; experience in care of children preferred. (Required)
Functional Accountabilities
Professional Practice/Research
Education
Clinical Instruction
Patient Care Instruction
Safety
Organizational Accountabilities
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification
Teamwork/Communication
Performance Improvement/Problem-solving
Cost Management/Financial Responsibility
Safety
Full Time
Hospital
$78k-94k (estimate)
10/28/2023
05/06/2024
www.childrensnational.org
Washington, District of Columbia
3,000 - 7,500
Eric McMillan
$500M - $1B
Hospital
Founded in 1870, Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) is a children's hospital in Washington, D.C., located just north of the McMillan Reservoir and Howard University. It shares grounds with Washington Hospital Center, National Rehabilitation Center, and the DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center.