Nurse Practitioner - Outpatient Sleep Clinic

Texas Children's Medical Center • Conroe, TX

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About The Position

The Nurse Practitioner works in a pediatric outpatient sleep clinic, providing developmentally and age-appropriate health maintenance for well children, episodic care for ill children, and comprehensive care for children with chronic conditions. Working under a delineation of clinical privileges and established guidelines and clinical protocols, the NP collaborates with other members of the health care team and assumes independent and interdependent responsibilities for assessment, diagnosis, and initiation of treatment and procedures. Duties are performed in a manner appropriate to the ages of patients served.

As an advanced practice provider, the NP also contributes to education, research, consultation, and evaluation of clinical practice. The role includes managing a patient caseload, documenting assessments and plans, coordinating care with patients, families, physicians, and other professionals, and maintaining current professional knowledge and skills.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in nursing.
• RN license from the Texas Board of Nursing or a Nursing Licensure Compact license.
• Certification as FNP, NNP, PNP-BC, WHNP-BC, CPNP-AC, or AG-ACNP from the Texas Board of Nursing.

Nice To Haves

• Pediatric experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Systematically collect and evaluate health assessment data and manage a patient caseload using advanced practice knowledge and skills.
• Obtain and document comprehensive health, developmental, and family histories.
• Assess patients’ physical status through examinations and document findings.
• Differentiate between normal and abnormal findings.
• 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 differential diagnoses in collaboration with physicians.
• Follow established delegation protocols to manage specific patient problems.
• Formulate plans of care with other health care professionals and document them in the patient’s medical record.
• Evaluate patients’ responses to interventions and modify plans of care as appropriate.
• Accurately present and document patient data, impressions, and plans of care.
• Communicate effectively and work to eliminate communication barriers.
• Collaborate with other health care disciplines to provide comprehensive patient care.
• Interview patients and families effectively and collaborate with them in developing care plans.
• Request consultations or initiate referrals for specialized care when appropriate, and communicate assessments, impressions, and plans to health care team members.
• Serve as an educational resource for patients, families, the community, and health care professionals.
• Apply new knowledge relevant to pediatric nursing in clinical practice.
• Maintain professional, managerial, and technical knowledge and skills through professional literature, staff development, and annual continuing education programs.
• Participate in assigned department and hospital committees that promote quality nursing care.
• Demonstrate NP role behaviors consistent with the development of advanced nursing practice.
• Participate in the departmental Quality Improvement program annually.
• Undergo respiratory fit testing as a condition of successful candidacy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time