Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

4 weeks ago


Austin, United States Texas Children's Hospital Full time
Job Description

We are searching for a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner who is motivated to work in an exciting pediatric setting

In this position, you will practice in an advanced role to provide developmentally appropriate and age-appropriate health maintenance for well children, episodic care for ill children, and comprehensive care for children with chronic conditions. The NP or PA works under a delineation of clinical privileges and will work collaboratively with other members of the health care team. Practice under established guidelines and clinical protocols, the APP assumes independent and interdependent responsibilities in the assessment, diagnosis and initiation of treatment and procedures. Job duties are performed in a manner that is developmentally appropriate for the ages of patients served. As an advanced practice provider, the NP or PA is responsible for education, research, consultation, and evaluation of clinical practice at various levels.

This is a full-time inpatient consult services for pain services.

Qualifications:

Physician Assistant:
  • Required Bachelor's Degree
  • PA -Cert-Physician Assistant by the Texas Medical Board
  • Pediatric experience strongly preferred.
Nurse Practitioner:
  • Master's degree in nursing required
  • RN license from the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact required
  • FNP, NNP, PNP-BC, WHNP-BC, CPNP-AC, or AG-ACNP from the Texas Board of Nursing required
  • Pediatric experience strongly preferred

Responsibilities:

Physician Assistant:

•Provide medical services that are within the education and training of the Physician Assistant within the scope of practice and delegation of the supervising physician
•Obtain a comprehensive health, developmental, and family history on patients and documents appropriately in the patient's medical record
•Differentiate between normal and abnormal findings and documents appropriately in the patient's medical record
•Prescribe or administer medications as delegated by the supervising physician and documents in medical records
•Administer appropriate vaccines as observed by physicians and documented in medical records
•Order diagnostic tests consistent with differential diagnoses derived from gathered data as evidenced by types of tests ordered
•Foster collaboration with the interdisciplinary team to improve health care
•Establish a relationship with the patient/family characterized by mutual respect, empathy, and collaboration
As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

Nurse Practitioner:

•Daily uses advanced practice knowledge and skills to systematically collect and evaluate health assessment data and manage patients' caseload. Obtains a comprehensive health, developmental, and family history on patients as documented in the patient's medical record.
•Assess the patient's physical status through the physical examination as documented in the patient's medical record.
•Differentiates between normal and abnormal findings as documented in the patient's medical record.
•Performs or recommends age-appropriate health screening procedures as documented in the patient's medical record.
•Provides health maintenance and health promotion for children of all ages as documented in the patient's medical record.
•Performs and evaluates diagnostic procedures and laboratory tests as documented in the patient's medical record.
•Analyzes multiple sources of data and formulates a differential diagnosis in collaboration with physicians as demonstrated in the written documentation.
•Follows established delegation protocols to manage specific patient problems. Formulates a plan of care in collaboration with other health care professionals and documents the plan in the patient's medical record.
•Accurately evaluates patient's responses to interventions and modifies the plan of care demonstrated by written documentation.
•Accurately presents and documents the data, impression, and plan of care on all patients as demonstrated in the written documentation.
•Consistently demonstrates effective communication skills and works to eliminate communication barriers.
•Collaborates effectively with other members of the health care disciplines to provide comprehensive care to patients.
•Utilizes effective and appropriate interviewing skills to elicit information from patients and/or family and collaborates with them in developing the care plan.
•Requests consultation and/or initiates referral for specialized care as appropriate. Communicates with health care team members the comprehensive assessment, impression, and plan of care.
•Consistently serves as an educational resource for the patient and family, community, and other health care professionals.
•Consistently applies new knowledge relevant to pediatric nursing to clinical practice.
•Demonstrates current professional, managerial, and/or technical knowledge and skills. Maintains knowledge base by reading professional literature, attending staff development, and continuing education programs annually. Participates in department and hospital committees, which promote quality nursing, care as assigned.
•Demonstrates NP role behaviors consistent with the development of advanced nursing practice.
•Participates in departmental Quality Improvement program annually.
As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace, all successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

About Us

Texas Children's presence in Austin helps support a pediatric population of more than half a million and keeps kids healthy and happy from birth to adulthood. Texas Children's first health care location in Austin, Texas Children's Urgent Care West Gate, opened in March 2018, providing high quality pediatric-focused care after hours and on weekends. There are now more than 15 Texas Children's Pediatric primary care practices in the greater Austin area providing full-service family care including routine childhood immunizations, well visits, and sick care. Our Specialty Care Center in Austin includes a multidisciplinary group of pediatric specialists committed to providing comprehensive care across a wide spectrum of services. Texas Children's Hospital North Austin, is our new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin families.

To join our community of more than 15,000 dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org.

Texas Children's is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

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