Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Acute Care or Physician Assistant - Emergency Medicine

Texas Children's Hospital•Houston, TX

About The Position

Texas Children’s is seeking a motivated Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Acute Care or Physician Assistant to work in a pediatric setting. The advanced practice provider delivers 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 protocols, the NP or PA collaborates with 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. The provider is also responsible for education, research, consultation, and evaluation of clinical practice at various levels. Successful candidates must undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards. Texas Children’s has provided patient care, education, and research since 1954. Its health care network includes hospitals and specialty facilities, primary and urgent care services, a health plan, and a global health program. The organization has more than 15,000 team members and is an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

Nurse practitioner: Master’s degree in nursing.
Nurse practitioner: RN license from the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact.
Nurse practitioner: Certification as FNP, NNP, PNP-BC, WHNP-BC, CPNP-AC, or AG-ACNP from the Texas Board of Nursing.
Physician assistant: Bachelor’s degree.
Physician assistant: PA certification by the Texas Medical Board.

Nice To Haves

Nurse practitioner: PNP-AC or ENP is strongly preferred.
Physician assistant: Pediatric experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

For nurse practitioners: Systematically collect and evaluate health assessment data and manage a patient caseload, including obtaining and documenting comprehensive health, developmental, and family histories.
For nurse practitioners: Assess patients’ physical status through physical examinations and document findings.
For nurse practitioners: Differentiate normal from abnormal findings and document them.
For nurse practitioners: Perform or recommend age-appropriate health screening procedures.
For nurse practitioners: Provide health maintenance and health promotion for children of all ages.
For nurse practitioners: Perform and evaluate diagnostic procedures and laboratory tests.
For nurse practitioners: Analyze multiple sources of data and formulate differential diagnoses in collaboration with physicians.
For nurse practitioners: Follow established delegation protocols to manage specific patient problems; formulate and document plans of care in collaboration with other health care professionals.
For nurse practitioners: Evaluate patients’ responses to interventions and modify plans of care as appropriate.
For nurse practitioners: Accurately present and document patient data, impressions, and plans of care.
For nurse practitioners: Communicate effectively, work to eliminate communication barriers, and collaborate with other health care disciplines to provide comprehensive care.
For nurse practitioners: Use appropriate interviewing skills to obtain information from patients and families and involve them in developing care plans.
For nurse practitioners: Request consultations or initiate referrals for specialized care as appropriate and communicate assessments, impressions, and plans of care to the health care team.
For nurse practitioners: Serve as an educational resource for patients, families, the community, and other health care professionals.
For nurse practitioners: Apply new knowledge relevant to pediatric nursing in clinical practice and maintain current professional, managerial, and technical knowledge and skills through professional literature, staff development, and annual continuing education.
For nurse practitioners: Participate in assigned department and hospital committees that promote quality nursing care, and participate in the departmental Quality Improvement program annually.
For nurse practitioners: Demonstrate role behaviors consistent with the development of advanced nursing practice.
For physician assistants: Provide medical services within the PA’s education, training, scope of practice, and delegation of the supervising physician.
For physician assistants: Obtain and appropriately document comprehensive health, developmental, and family histories.
For physician assistants: Differentiate normal from abnormal findings and document them appropriately.
For physician assistants: Prescribe or administer medications as delegated by the supervising physician and document them in medical records.
For physician assistants: Administer appropriate vaccines as observed by physicians and document them in medical records.
For physician assistants: Order diagnostic tests consistent with differential diagnoses derived from gathered data.
For physician assistants: Foster interdisciplinary collaboration to improve health care.
For physician assistants: Establish relationships with patients and families characterized by mutual respect, empathy, and collaboration.