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40448BR

Extended Job Title:

Nurse Practitioner

Org Level 1:

Texas Tech Unv Hlth Sci Ctr El Paso

Position Description:

Provides inpatient acute health care to infants, children, and adolescents. This includes health surveillance as well as assessment and intervention to diagnose and treat illness or disease, whether acute or chronic, physical, psychosocial, or behavioral. Nurse Practitioner works collaboratively with the supervising physician to provide patient assessment and diagnosis, formulate treatment plans, prescribe medication, order laboratory tests, interpret test results, provide patient education, prepare medical records, and refer patients for the services and care indicated. May also provide primary care services as indicated or needed. Reports to the Division Chief of the Hospitalist services. Refer to the delineation of privileges for a specific scope of practice.

Requisition ID:

40448BR

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Major/Essential Functions:

+ Knowledge of Practice: The nurse practitioner integrates, translates, and applies established and evolving scientific knowledge from diverse sources as the basis for ethical clinical judgment, innovation, and diagnostic reasoning.

+ Family-Centered Care: The nurse practitioner uses evidence-based and best practices to design, manage, and evaluate comprehensive family-centered care within the regulatory and educational scope of practice.

+ Fundamental to family-centered care is respect for diversity, differences, preferences, values, needs, resources, and each individual's unique characteristics of health.

+ Population Health: The nurse practitioner partners across the care continuum with public health, healthcare systems, the community, the academic community, governmental, and other entities to integrate foundational NP knowledge into culturally competent practices, increasing health promotion and disease prevention strategies and, thus, the care of populations.

+ Practice Scholarship and Translational Science: The nurse practitioner generates, appraises, synthesizes, translates, integrates, and disseminates knowledge to improve family-centered health and systems of care.

+ Quality and Safety: The nurse practitioner utilizes knowledge and principles of translational and improvement science methodologies to improve quality and safety for providers, patients, populations, and systems of care.

+ Interprofessional Collaboration in Practice: The nurse practitioner collaborates with the interprofessional team to provide care through meaningful communication and active participation in family-centered and population-centered care.

+ Health Systems: The nurse practitioner demonstrates organizational and system leadership to improve healthcare outcomes.

+ Technology and Information Literacy: The nurse practitioner envisions, appraises, and utilizes informatics and healthcare technologies to deliver care.

+ Professional Acumen: The nurse practitioner demonstrates the attributes and perspective of the nursing profession and adherence to ethical principles while functioning as a committed equal partner of the interprofessional healthcare team.

+ Personal and Professional Leadership: The nurse practitioner participates in professional and personal growth activities to develop a sustainable progression toward professional and interpersonal maturity, improved resilience, and robust leadership capacity.

+ Adhere to all TTUHSC EP policies, procedures, and processes.

+ Personally demonstrate, display, and act in accordance with TTUHSCEP's values (Service, Respect, Accountability Integrity, Advancement, and Teamwork).

+ Actively promote and encourage staff across the institution.

+ Perform all other duties as assigned.

+ Current BLS certification through the American Heart Association or American Red Cross required

Grant Funded?:

No

Minimum Hire Rate:

Compensation is commensurate upon the qualifications of the individual

Pay Basis:

Monthly

Schedule Details:

as directed by Division Chief to meet Clinical needs

Work Location:

El Paso

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Bi-Lingual competence in English and Spanish.

+ Two years pediatric care

+ Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Licensed in the State of Texas or Compact State -Active DEA license or ability to apply for such license prior or upon hire required

+ BLS and PALS by the American Heart Association required.

+ Master's degree or Doctorate degree from an accredited Nursing Program preferred

Campus:

HSC - El Paso

Department:

Pediatrics Elp

Required Attachments:

Cover Letter, Professional License or Certification, Resume / CV, Transcript

Job Type:

Full Time

Pay Statement:

Compensation is commensurate upon the qualifications of the individual selected and budgetary guidelines of the hiring department, as well as, the institutional pay plan. For additional information, please reference the institutional pay plan on the Human Resources webpage.

Job Group:

Health Care Professional

Shift:

Other

EEO Statement:

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

Required Qualifications:

+ Graduated from an approved accredited nursing program.

+ Current RN license in the State of Texas or have the ability to transfer your license to Texas.

+ Certification as a Nurse Practitioner in the appropriate nursing specialty from an approved certification program as recognized by the Texas State Board of Nurse Examiners.

+ Recognition by the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners as an Advance Practitioner.

Does this position work in a research laboratory?:

No

Navy Enlisted Classification Code:

290X

Army Military Occupational Specialty Code:

66P, 66R

Air Force Specialty Code:

46YX

Jeanne Clery Act:

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is a federal statute requiring colleges and universities participating in federal financial aid programs to maintain and disclose campus crime statistics and security information. By October 1 of each year, institutions must publish and distribute their Annual Campus Security Policy & Crime Statistics Report (ASR) to current and prospective students and employees. You can locate this report through our website at: https://www.ttuhsc.edu/emergency/clery-report.aspx