Nurse Practitioner - Full-Time, Days
About The Position
Texas Health Southwest is hiring a full-time Nurse Practitioner for a day-shift schedule of 40 hours per week at its Fort Worth location. The Nurse Practitioner provides patient care through comprehensive health-history interviews, advanced health assessments, clinical decision-making, and appropriate therapeutic interventions. The role collaborates with multidisciplinary teams, supports continuity of care, documents and revises plans of care, follows clinical pathways and policies, and promotes population health. Specialty-specific technical procedures must be performed safely and proficiently. Texas Health Southwest and Texas Health Clearfork operate as one hospital across two locations serving southwest Fort Worth and surrounding communities. The 261-bed hospital provides surgical services, orthopedics, rehabilitation, imaging, adult critical care, and a 24-hour emergency department. The organization highlights a supportive team environment, growth opportunities, nursing education, research, and innovation in nursing practice.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and graduation from an accredited nursing program.
- Master’s degree and graduation from a Nurse Practitioner program.
- Registered Nurse (RN) license upon hire.
- Advanced Practice Nurse (APRN) credential upon hire.
- Nurse Practitioner (NP) credential upon hire.
- Credentialing by Medical Staff Services upon hire.
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) before providing independent patient care, maintained quarterly.
- High degree of confidentiality, positive interpersonal skills, and ability to function in a fast-paced environment.
Nice To Haves
- Two years of experience as a Nurse Practitioner.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 30 days (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Obtain comprehensive health histories using communication and interviewing skills to formulate plans of care and determine appropriate therapeutic interventions.
- Perform advanced health assessments and differentiate normal from abnormal findings.
- Apply knowledge of physiology, pathophysiology, culture, and socioeconomic factors to evaluate patients and provide therapeutic interventions.
- Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to improve care processes and promote continuity of care.
- Initiate actions to meet the needs of patients and families.
- Take actions to reduce patient risks.
- Perform specialty-specific technical procedures safely and proficiently.
- Document, initiate, follow, and revise patients’ plans of care.
- Support adherence to clinical pathways, protocols, and policies to promote high reliability of the clinical program.
- Promote population health by evaluating care-delivery models in relation to community, environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic dimensions of health.
Benefits
- 401(k)
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible spending account
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan forgiveness
- Other benefits
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