Nurse Practitioner - Sleep Clinic

Texas Children's Hospital West Campus is Houston's first community hospital designed, built and equipped exclusively for children in one of the city's most rapidly growing communities in the area from Sugar Land to Bryan-College Station, Texas. Located at I-10 and Barker Cypress, our 515,007-square-foot hospital houses the only 24/7 pediatric emergency room in the Greater West Houston area, four operating rooms, 16-bed pediatric intensive care unit, 46 acute care beds, advanced imaging services including MRI and CT scans, a neurophysiology sleep lab, a pathology lab and a full-scale pharmacy.

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Summary:

Job Summary:

We are searching for a Nurse Practitioner who is motivated to work in an exciting pediatric setting! In this position, you will practice in an advanced role to provide developmentally appropriate and age-appropriate health maintenance for well children, episodic care for ill children, and comprehensive care for children with chronic conditions. The nurse practitioner (NP) works under a delineation of clinical privileges and will work collaboratively with other members of the health care team. Practice under established guidelines and clinical protocols, the NP assumes independent and interdependent responsibilities in the assessment, diagnosis and initiation of treatment and procedures. Job duties are performed in a manner that is developmentally appropriate for the ages of patients served. As an advanced practice nurse, the NP is responsible for education, research, consultation, and evaluation of clinical practice at various levels.

Qualifications:

• RN license (nursing) required
• Master's degree in nursing (MSN) required
• Sleep experience preferred
• Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including any booster dose(s) of the COVID-19 vaccine recommended by the Centers for Disease Control when eligible, is required for all employees at Texas Children's unless approved for a medical or religious exemption.
• FNP, NNP, PNP-BC, WHNP-BC, CPNP-AC, or AG-ACNP license required

• Obtain a comprehensive health, developmental, and family history on patients as documented in the patient's medical record
• Consistently apply new knowledge relevant to pediatric nursing to clinical practice
• Identify and document patient/family learning needs, readiness to learn, and level of understanding, incorporating family culture and belief systems on all patients
• Consistently serve as an educational resource for the patient and family, community, and other healthcare professionals
• Daily utilize advanced practice knowledge and skills to systematically collect and evaluate health assessment data, and to manage a caseload of patients
• Participate in departmental Quality Improvement program annually
• Collaborate effectively with other members of the health care disciplines to provide comprehensive care to patients
• Demonstrate NP role behaviors consistent with the development of advanced nursing practice
• Consistently demonstrate effective communication skills and works to eliminate communication barriers
• Demonstrate current professional, managerial, and/or technical knowledge and skills