Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Acute Care Nurse Practitioner

Bring your passion to Texas Health so we are Better Together

Work location:Texas Health Heart and Vascular Hospital 811 Wright Street Arlington TX 76012

Work hours: Monday - Friday; 3 (12-hour) shifts 0600-1830

Highlights

Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospitalis an independentlylicensed hospitallocatedon the campus of Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital. We are a47-bedfacility including a 20 bed Cardiovascular ICU and a27-bedcardiac telemetry unit.

Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospital is accredited for Chest Pain through The Joint Commission. We have achieved AHAs Gold Plus award for three years in a row plus AHAs Gold Plus award for Heart Failure.

We specialize in CABG and Valve surgeries thoracotomies general cardiac including heart failure cardiomyopathies AMI TAVR Impella and heart catheterizations including angioplasty stenting and electrophysiology studies. We operate in a team-based environment with a cardiac focus. We boast excellent patient and staff satisfaction results have an amazing collaborative culture within all departments.

Heres What You Need:

• Bachelors Degree graduate of an accredited nursing program is required.
• Masters Degree graduate of a Nurse Practitioner program is required.
• Two (2)years of experience as a Nurse Practitioner is preferred.
• RN - Registered Nurse is required upon hire.
• APRN - Advanced Practice Nurse is required upon hire.
• ACNP - Acute Care Nurse Practitioner is required upon hire.
• BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly is required.
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support required within 90 days of hire.

Skills: A high degree of confidentiality positive interpersonal skills and ability to function in a fast-paced environment.

What You Will Do:

Delivers care to patients utilizing the Nursing Process

• Assessment/ Plan of Care/ Technical Skill:
• 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
• Initiates actions to meet patients/families needs
• Takes actions to reduce patients risks
• Performs specialty specific technical procedures safely and proficiently

Additional perks of being a Texas Health Nurse:

Benefits include 401k PTO medical dental Paid Parental Leave flex spending tuition reimbursement student loan repayment programs as 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.

If youre ready to join us in our mission to improve the health of our community then lets show the world how were even better together!

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