Nurse Practitioner, Heart & Vascular

About This Role

Serve as a Nurse Practitioner in the Heart & Vascular Department at Texas Health Dallas, providing comprehensive health care by utilizing advanced assessment skills and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Utilize communication and interviewing techniques for comprehensive health history to formulate a plan of care and make appropriate therapeutic decisions
• Use advanced health assessment for differentiating normal and abnormal findings
• Synthesize knowledge of physiology, pathophysiology, culture, and socioeconomics to access, evaluate, and provide therapeutic interventions to patients
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to improve care processes and promote continuity of care
• Initiate actions to meet patients/families’ needs and reduce patient risks
• Perform specialty specific technical procedures safely and proficiently
• Produce documentation that initiates, follows, and revises patients' plan of care
• Adhere to clinical pathways, protocols, and policies to ensure high reliability of clinical program
• Promote population health through evaluation of care delivery models as they pertain to community, environmental, cultural and socio-economical dimensions of health

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree Graduate of an accredited nursing program
• Master’s Degree Graduate of Nurse Practitioner program
• CLIAFE compliant
• RN - Registered Nurse upon hire
• APRN - Advance Practice Registered Nurse upon hire
• NP - Nurse Practitioner upon hire
• BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support (prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Nursing with Nurse Practitioner program completion
• 2 years of experience as Nurse Practitioner preferred; 1 year experience in Heart & Vascular preferred

Nice to Have

• 2 years of experience as Nurse Practitioner
• Acute Care certification
• 1 year experience in Heart & Vascular
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 30 days

Benefits

Certifications