Nurse Practitioner - Neurology

Nurse Practitioner - Neurology - Full time
Bring your passion to Texas Health so we are Better + Together

Work location: Texas Health Denton - 3000 I35, Denton, Texas 76201
Work hours: Monday through Friday from 8:00am -5:00PM

Department highlights:

• Expanding Advanced Neurosurgical Care for the Denton Community - Texas Health Denton is proud to continue growing its Neuro-Spine service line, expanding access to specialized spine and neurosurgical care close to home for patients throughout the Denton community.
• Collaboration with Highly Experienced Neuro-Spine Surgeons - Our program will partner with five experienced Neuro-Spine surgeons, bringing advanced clinical expertise, innovative treatment options, and a commitment to delivering exceptional patient outcomes.
• Culture of Innovation and Continuous Improvement - As a growing service line, we embrace new ideas, best practices, and collaborative approaches. We encourage team members to contribute innovative solutions that enhance patient care, operational excellence, and the overall patient experience.

Here's What You Need

• Bachelor's Degree - Graduate of an accredited nursing program required and
• Master's degree - Graduate of a Nurse Practitioner program required
• 2 years experience as a Nurse Practitioner preferred
• Neuro/Spine experience preferred
• RN upon hire required and
• APRN upon hire required and
• NP upon hire required and
• Must be credentialed by Medical Staff Services upon hire required and
• BCLS - prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required and
• ACLS within 30 days preferred

What You Will Do
Assessment/ Plan of Care/ Technical Skill:
• Utilizes principles and skills in communication and interviewing techniques in obtaining a comprehensive health history to formulate a plan of care and make decisions for appropriate therapeutic interventions
• Uses principles and skills in advanced health assessment for differentiating normal and abnormal findings
• Synthesizes knowledge of physiology, pathophysiology, culture, and socioeconomics to access, evaluate, and provide therapeutic interventions to patients
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to improve care processes in order to promote continuity of care
• Initiates actions to meet patients/families' needs
• Takes actions to reduce patients risks
• Performs specialty specific technical procedures safely and proficiently
• Produces documentation that initiates, follows, and revises patients' plan of care
• Focuses on adherence to clinical pathways, protocols, and policies to ensure high reliability of clinical program
• Promotes population health through the evaluation of care delivery models as they pertain to community, environmental, cultural and socio-economical dimensions of health.
Continuous Quality Improvement:
• Utilizes evidenced based practice
• Demonstrates contribution to unit based programs and research strategies to monitor and continuously improve the quality of patient care
• Assist in the identification of ineffective and costly processes and take actions to improve those processes
Partnerships:
• Works in partnerships with peers and other disciplines
• Actively participates in formal and informal teaching and evaluation to strengthen clinical competence of self and team members
• Flexible with scheduling to meet the department and patient needs
• Adapts to changes in workload assignments to meet changing needs of the individuals, patient, or the unit
• Accepts other duties as assigned
Professional Accountability:
• Identifies realistic and measurable annual goals for advanced professional nursing development
• Serves as patient advocate
• Complies with THR Human Resource Policies: Attendance, Dress Code
• Works with unit leaders and hospital leadership to meet compliance and business needs
• Recognizes and communicates ethical and legal concerns through established channels of communications

Additional perks of being a Nurse Practitioner

• Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, Student Loan Repayment Program as well as several other benefits.
• At Texas Health, our people make this a great place to work every day. Our inclusive, supportive, people-first, excellence-driven culture make Texas Health a great place to work.
• A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.


We invite you to join us in furthering your career through our accomplishments and philosophy of excellence.
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