Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Emergency Medicine - PRN
Texas Children's Hospital · Austin, TX, US
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About the Role
Seeking a motivated Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner for an exciting pediatric setting, providing health maintenance, episodic care, and comprehensive care for children with chronic conditions.
Responsibilities
- Provide medical services within the scope of practice and delegation of the supervising physician.
- Obtain and document comprehensive health, developmental, and family history.
- Differentiate between normal and abnormal findings and document appropriately.
- Prescribe or administer medications as delegated and document.
- Administer appropriate vaccines and document.
- Order diagnostic tests consistent with differential diagnoses.
- Foster collaboration with the interdisciplinary team to improve health care.
- Establish a relationship with the patient/family characterized by mutual respect, empathy, and collaboration.
- Perform daily advanced practice knowledge and skills to systematically collect and evaluate health assessment data and manage patients' caseload.
- Assess patient's physical status through physical examination.
- Perform or recommend age-appropriate health screening procedures.
- Provide health maintenance and health promotion for children of all ages.
- Perform and evaluate diagnostic procedures and laboratory tests.
- Analyze multiple sources of data and formulate a differential diagnosis in collaboration with physicians.
- Follow established delegation protocols to manage specific patient problems.
- Formulate a plan of care in collaboration with other health care professionals and document.
- Accurately evaluate patient’s responses to interventions and modify the plan of care.
- Accurately present and document the data, impression, and plan of care on all patients.
- Consistently demonstrate effective communication skills and work to eliminate communication barriers.
- Collaborate effectively with other members of the health care disciplines to provide comprehensive care.
- Utilize effective and appropriate interviewing skills to elicit information from patients and/or family and collaborate with them in developing the care plan.
- Request consultation and/or initiate referral for specialized care as appropriate.
- Communicate with health care team members the comprehensive assessment, impression, and plan of care.
- Serve as an educational resource for the patient and family, community, and other health care professionals.
- Apply new knowledge relevant to pediatric nursing to clinical practice.
- Demonstrate current professional, managerial, and/or technical knowledge and skills.
- Maintain knowledge base by reading professional literature, attending staff development, and continuing education programs annually.
- Participate in departmental Quality Improvement program annually.
- Undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree required for Physician Assistant.
- PA -Cert-Physician Assistant by the Texas Medical Board required.
- Master’s degree in nursing required for Nurse Practitioner.
- 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 Emergency Medicine experience strongly preferred for both roles.
Skills
- Pediatric care
- Health maintenance
- Episodic care
- Chronic condition management
- Medical history taking
- Physical examination
- Diagnosis
- Treatment planning
- Prescribing medication
- Vaccination administration
- Diagnostic testing
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Patient/family education
- Communication skills
- Interviewing skills
- Quality Improvement
Location
- Austin, Texas
Work Type
- PRN
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Advanced practice provider
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's degree in nursing
About the Company
- Texas Children’s presence in Austin supports a pediatric population of more than half a million.
- Texas Children’s Urgent Care West Gate opened in March 2018.
- There are over 15 Texas Children’s Pediatric primary care practices in the greater Austin area.
- The Specialty Care Center in Austin includes a multidisciplinary group of pediatric specialists.
- Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin is a state-of-the-art facility providing pediatric and maternal care.
- Join a community of more than 15,000 dedicated team members.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.