Nurse Practitioner

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) will coordinate care for all infants identified in our region who have screened positive for congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) on the dried blood spot with Newborn Screening Ontario. This individual will be responsible for contacting the family or their primary care provider to inform them of the screen positive result and will refer infants to community pediatrician for initial evaluation. The individual is responsible for ensuring symptomatic infants are urgently referred to the McMaster Pediatric Infectious Diseases clinic, where the NP will assess, diagnose and treat as needed in close collaboration with the Infectious Diseases specialists. The individual is also responsible for collecting results on all asymptomatic infants, maintaining Newborn Screening Ontario documentation, and ensuring ongoing follow up for all screen positive infants. The NP will serve as a key resource and point of contact for community pediatricians and other regional program partners.

The NP will also provide advanced nursing care to meet the needs of the outpatient Pediatric Infectious Diseases clinic at McMaster Children's Hospital. This will include assessment, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment management of acute and chronic pediatric infections in close collaboration and consultation with the Infectious Diseases specialists. The individual will actively participate in promoting and providing quality, family-centred care in the outpatient clinic setting.

The NP will be expected to:

- Review and revise Newborn Screening Ontario medical directives for retrieval, evaluation and treatment of cCMV screen positive infants
- Perform retrieval for cCMV screen positive infants (i.e. contacting the family to inform them of the screen positive result, prognosis and plan)
- Refer all cCMV screen positive infants to community partners for initial evaluation and ensure timely and comprehensive care is being provided
- Collect and interpret initial evaluation results for all infants, expediting referral to Pediatric Infectious Diseases for symptomatic infants
- Provide advanced nursing care to infants who are symptomatic of cCMV in the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Clinic in close collaboration with the Infectious Diseases specialists
- Act as a key resource and point of contact for community pediatricians, audiologists, family physicians, midwives and families
- Complete required documentation for Newborn Screening Ontario and McMaster Children's Hospital
- Provide advanced nursing care (assessment, evaluation, diagnosis and therapeutic management considerations) in the outpatient Pediatric Infectious Diseases clinic to a wide variety of patients with acute and chronic pediatric infections
- Maintain and coordinate continuity of care for patients in the outpatient Pediatric Infectious Diseases clinic

JOB TYPE

Work Day: Full Time

Employment type: Permanent Job

Salary: Negotiable

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Minimal experience: Unspecified