Nurse Practitioner - Neurology

• Bachelor's Degree - Graduate of an accredited nursing program required and
• Master's degree - Graduate of a Nurse Practitioner program required
• 2 years experience as a Nurse Practitioner preferred
• Neuro/Spine experience preferred
• RN upon hire required and
• APRN upon hire required and
• NP upon hire required and
• Must be credentialed by Medical Staff Services upon hire required and
• BCLS - prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required and
• ACLS within 30 days preferred

What You Will Do
Assessment/ Plan of Care/ Technical Skill:
• Utilizes principles and skills in communication and interviewing techniques in obtaining a comprehensive health history to formulate a plan of care and make decisions for appropriate therapeutic interventions
• Uses principles and skills in advanced health assessment for differentiating normal and abnormal findings
• Synthesizes knowledge of physiology, pathophysiology, culture, and socioeconomics to access, evaluate, and provide therapeutic interventions to patients
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to improve care processes in order to promote continuity of care
• Initiates actions to meet patients/families’ needs
• Takes actions to reduce patients risks
• Performs specialty specific technical procedures safely and proficiently
• Produces documentation that initiates, follows, and revises patients' plan of care
• Focuses on adherence to clinical pathways, protocols, and policies to ensure high reliability of clinical program
• Promotes population health through the evaluation of care delivery models as they pertain to community, environmental, cultural and socio-economical dimensions of health.
Continuous Quality Improvement:
• Utilizes evidenced based practice
• Demonstrates contribution to unit based programs and research strategies to monitor and continuously improve the quality of patient care
• Assist in the identification of ineffective and costly processes and take actions to improve those processes
Partnerships:
• Works in partnerships with peers and other disciplines
• Actively participates in formal and informal teaching and evaluation to strengthen clinical competence of self and team members
• Flexible with scheduling to meet the department and patient needs
• Adapts to changes in workload assignments to meet changing needs of the individuals, patient, or the unit
• Accepts other duties as assigned
Professional Accountability:
• Identifies realistic and measurable annual goals for advanced professional nursing development
• Serves as patient advocate
• Complies with THR Human Resource Policies: Attendance, Dress Code
• Works with unit leaders and hospital leadership to meet compliance and business needs
• Recognizes and communicates ethical and legal concerns through established channels of communications

Additional perks of being a Nurse Practitioner

• Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, Student Loan Repayment Program as well as several other benefits.
• At Texas Health, our people make this a great place to work every day. Our inclusive, supportive, people-first, excellence-driven culture make Texas Health a great place to work.
• A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.
 
We invite you to join us in furthering your career through our accomplishments and philosophy of excellence.
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Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org.

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