Job description

Hospital Based Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant (Texas)

Organization: Benchmark Inpatient Services, PLLC

Job Location: Harlingen/Brownsville

Work Schedule: 7 days on/7 days off (7:00am-5:00pm)

Benefits: Yes

Position Summary:

Provides advanced nursing care to patients with complex acute, critical and/or chronic health conditions in a hospital setting in one or more specialized areas under the direction of a physician.

Typical duties and responsibilities to this position are:

• Conducts complex, standardized patient care procedures which require experience and specialized training which would otherwise be performed by a physician, but which do not constitute the practice of medicine.
• Conducts independent and physician supervised rounding on unit(s).
• Performs relevant patient evaluations and assessments, and provides appropriate treatment, including monitoring and ordering medications.
• Coordinates, directs, and implements the patient’s plan of care.
• Assists in collecting patient histories, screens for co-morbidities, and provides guidance and preventative health care as needed.
• Performs physical examinations and provides episodic care, or problem-oriented care, under the supervision of a physician.
• Orders appropriate laboratory, diagnostic and radiographic tests, and interprets results.
• Monitors the treatment program of the patient to inform the attending physician of pertinent medical information.
• Communicates with patient, family members and primary care physicians regarding patient’s plan of care.
• Facilitates patient education relating to medical processes, medication, nutrition, and health promotion or preventative health care.
• Assists physician in formulating therapeutic decisions.
• Maintains appropriate records and prepares charts for review and counter signature of physician.
• Responds to emergency situations.
• Performs within the scope of practice prescribed by licensure and certification.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Certification/Skills:

ACLS/BLS Certified

Education and Experience:

Certified as a Nurse Practitioner by Texas Board of Nursing or Licensed Physician Assistant issues by the Texas Physician Assistant Board

Current Medical License & Board Certification

Location:

Texas

License:

DEA

Texas Nurse Practitioner License

Texas Physician Assistant License

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $125,000.00 - $140,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Continuing education credits
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Malpractice insurance
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Critical & Intensive Care
• Emergency Medicine
• Internal Medicine

Physical setting:

• Inpatient

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Harlingen, TX 78550: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Are you licensed at a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant in the state of Texas?

Work Location: One location

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