Advanced Practice Nurse (APN), Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN), Basic Life Support (BLS), Eating Disorders, Hospital, Malnutrition, Medical Treatment, Medicine, Nurse Practitioner, Nursing, Nutrition, Outpatient Care, Patient Assessment, Patient Care, Patient Charts, Patient Follow-up, Pediatrics, Physician Assistant, Record Keeping, Registered Nurse (RN), Training/Teaching, Treatment Plan
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Job Title: Instructor - Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
Division: Pediatrics
Work Arrangement:
Location: Houston, TX
Salary Range:
FLSA Status: Exempt
Work Schedule:
Job Purpose
Provides advanced nursing care to patients in a clinical setting in an area of specialization under the direction of a physician.
Job Duties
- Primarily provide inpatient-based for 10-18-year-olds admitted with to the TCH Adolescent Unit with malnutrition and other medical complications of eating disorders
- One weekend rounds/month with inpatient team
- Monday through Friday morning rounds with the inpatient medical team including seeing patients and writing notes in tandem with residents
- Some overnight call from home
- Evaluate and treat some patients in clinic depending on inpatient census
- Orient new residents on the monthly adolescent medicine rotation to the inpatient adolescent medicine eating disorder service
- Do admission contracts with new admissions from clinic and EC
- Write admission orders for new admission
- After daily formal rounds with the medical and nutrition team, summarized treatment plans with nursing staff if they were not part of the work rounds
- Arrange clinic follow-up with patients in the TCH Adolescent Medicine outpatient program or other program as appropriate
- Obtain adolescent specific histories and perform physical examinations on new patients and patients in hospital.
- Perform, order, and interpret diagnostic tests
- Prescribes pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments.
- Maintain records and write orders and progress notes in patient charts
- Communicate with physicians, patients, and the family members of patients concerning patient care.
- May participate in QI and research projects as time allows
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education Required: Master's degree in in Nursing.
- Experience Required: Preferred three years' experience in a clinical setting with adolescents
- Certification/Licenses/Registration: Current license as a Registered Nurse (RN) by the State of Texas Board of Nursing. Current Texas Licensure as an Advanced Practice Nurse (APRN-NP), and specialty certification as required by department. Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
- For Physician Assistants: Master's degree in Physician Assistant Studies. NOTE: Bachelor's degree in Physician Assistant Studies accepted based on terminal degree requirements at the time of graduation.
- For Physician Assistant: Current license as a Physician Assistant by the State of Texas Physician Assistant Board. Specialty certification as required by department.
Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.
Requisition ID: 25461
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