Nurse Practitioner, Neuro

Registered Nurse Practitioner, Neurosurgery Bring your passion to Texas Health so we are Better + Together

Work location: Texas Health Plano, 6200 West Parker Road, Plano, Texas, 75096

Work Hours: Full Time, 40 Hours; 4 10 hour days with rotating weekend coverage

• Fellowship trained Neurosurgeons and Neuro Interventional Radiologists
• Level II Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center
• 24 bed ICU and dedicated Neuro unit
• Neuro Trauma, Elective Spine, Neuro Interventional Radiology and Brain Surgical cases

• Bachelor’s Degree Graduate of an accredited nursing program required
• Master’s Degree Graduate of Nurse Practitioner program required
• Other - CLIAFE Must comply with CLIA regulations regarding foreign education equivalency required
• 2 years of experience as Nurse Practitioner preferred
• Acute Care certification highly preferred
• 1 year experience in Neuro preferred
• RN
  - Registered Nurse upon hire required
• APRN
  - Advanced Practice Nurse upon hire required
• NP
  - Nurse Practitioner upon hire required
• BCLS
  - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required
• ACLS
  - Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 30 days preferred
• Other
  - Must be credentialed by Medical Staff Services upon hire required

• 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
• Takes action to reduce patients risks
• Performs specialty specific technical procedures safely and proficiently
• 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

• Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, Student Loan Repayment Program, well as several other benefits.

Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.

Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).

A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.

Since 1991, Texas Health Plano has served the communities of Plano, Frisco, Carrollton, Addison, Richardson, and McKinney. We’re a 386-bed, full-service hospital serving North Texas with incredible care and amazing people. We specialize in emergency medicine and trauma, cardiology, neurosurgery and spine, advanced orthopedics, women's services, adult and adolescent behavioral health, an adult intensive care unit and state of the art and technologically advanced surgical services.

Plus, we’re a Level II Trauma Facility, the only health care facility in Collin County to have achieved both the Level IV NICU and Level IV Maternal facility designation and have a DNV-certified Comprehensive Stroke Program.

Texas Health Plano is a four-time Magnet-designated hospital, the only AACN Beacon Gold adult intensive care unit in the DFW area, accredited by the Joint Commission in Hip and Knee Replacement and a Primary Heart Attack Center. We offer top-notch benefits including an on-site childcare center created for working parents. You belong here.

Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment