Physician Assistant or Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Acute Care - Pediatric Neurosurgery

Position:
Physician Assistant – Pediatric Neurosurgery

Talent Area:
Advanced Practice Providers

Full/Part Time:
Full time

Location:

Houston, TX, US

Department:
Pediatric Neurosurgery

Shift: 4 days per week. 8a-6p

Job

Job Overview

We are searching for a Physician Assistant 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 physician assistant 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 physician assistant 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 provider, the physician assistant is responsible for education, research, consultation, and evaluation of clinical practice at various levels.

• Required Bachelor's Degree
• PA – Cert-Physician Assistant by the Texas Medical Board

• Provide medical services that are within the education and training of the Physician Assistant within the scope of practice and delegation of the supervising physician.
• Obtain a comprehensive health, developmental, and family history on patients and document appropriately in the patient’s medical record.
• Differentiate between normal and abnormal findings and document appropriately in the patient’s medical record.
• Prescribe or administer medications as delegated by the supervising physician and document in medical records.
• Administer appropriate vaccines as observed by physicians and documented in medical records.
• Order diagnostic tests consistent with differential diagnoses derived from gathered data as evidenced by types of tests ordered.
• Foster collaboration with the interdisciplinary team to improve health care.
• Establish a relationship with the patient/family characterized by mutual respect, empathy, and collaboration.
• Undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

Since 1954, Texas Children’s has been leading the charge in patient care, education and research to accelerate health care for children and women around the world. When you love what you do, it truly shows in the smiles of our patient families, employees and our numerous accolades such as being consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation by U.S. News & World Report as well as recognition from Houston Business Journal as one of this city’s Best Places to Work for ten consecutive years.

Texas Children’s comprehensive health care network includes our primary hospital in the Texas Medical Center with expertise in over 40 pediatric subspecialties; the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI); the Feigin Tower for pediatric research;
Texas Children ’ s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births;
Texas Children ’ s Hospital West Campus, a community hospital in suburban West Houston;
Texas Children ’ s Hospital The Woodlands, the first hospital devoted to children ’ s care for communities north of Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin, the new state-of-the-art facility providing world-class pediatric and maternal care to Austin and Central Texas families. We have also created Texas Children ’ s Health Plan, the nation ’ s first HMO focused on children;
Texas Children ’ s Pediatrics, the largest pediatric primary care network in the country;
Texas Children ’ s Urgent Care clinics that specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children; and a global health program that is channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children ’ s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, one of the largest, most diverse and successful pediatric programs in the nation.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.