Nurse Clinician - Fellowship

Nemours is seeking a Nurse Clinician to join our Nemours Children’s Health team in Wilmington, DE.

The Nurse Clinician nursing role is responsible for improvement and maintenance of scientifically based clinical nursing care in an area of specialized nursing practice or for specific population. The Nurse Clinician intervenes at the patient/family, the nurse, and at the systems level.  In collaboration with the health care team, the Nurse Clinician provides expert family centered clinical care and clinical consultation within her/his area of expertise to improve outcomes and to promote integrated health care that is safe, equitable, timely, effective, and efficient.  The Nurse Clinican achieves this by providing direct and indirect care to patients and their families, promoting professional development, disseminating and conducting research and contributing to and leading clinical policy and procedure development and revision.

Essential Functions

Clinical judgment:  Models advanced assessment and interpretation, implements nursing care, and evaluates outcomes for patient populations. 

Facilitator of Learning: Demonstrates clinical expertise while supporting clinical nurses to integrate new evidence into practice. Provides education or teaching skills to clinical teams, patients and family. 

Collaboration: Focuses on (and role models) interprofessional team building and effective team functioning.

Response to Diversity:  Reviews alternative approaches and implementing planned change to meet needs considering cultural, social, family and system diversity. 

Clinical Inquiry: Interprets and uses research to evaluate practice, and collaborates in research. 

Systems Thinking: Responsible for innovation and change in the patient care system. Able to make connections within components. 

Advocacy/Moral Agency: Influences the negotiation of moral dilemmas, allocating resources, directing patient care and access to care.

Caring Practices: Responds to subtle patient and family changes: engages with each unique patient in a compassionate manner. 

Requirements

Enrolled in a Clinical Nurse Specialist program 

Minimum 5 years related clinical experience

Active Delaware (or compact state) Registered Nurse Licensure Required

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.

Learn more at Nemours.org.