Job Purpose

Provides advanced nursing care to patients in a clinical setting in an area of specialization under the direction of a physician.

Job Duties

• Primarily provide inpatient-based for 10–18-year-olds admitted with to the TCH Adolescent Unit with malnutrition and other medical complications of eating disorders
• One weekend rounds/month with inpatient team
• Monday through Friday morning rounds with the inpatient medical team including seeing patients and writing notes in tandem with residents
• Some overnight call from home
• Evaluate and treat some patients in clinic depending on inpatient census
• Orient new residents on the monthly adolescent medicine rotation to the inpatient adolescent medicine eating disorder service
• Do admission contracts with new admissions from clinic and EC
• Write admission orders for new admission
• After daily formal rounds with the medical and nutrition team, summarized treatment plans with nursing staff if they were not part of the work rounds
• Arrange clinic follow-up with patients in the TCH Adolescent Medicine outpatient program or other program as appropriate
• Obtain adolescent specific histories and perform physical examinations on new patients and patients in hospital.
• Perform, order, and interpret diagnostic tests
• Prescribes pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments.
• Maintain records and write orders and progress notes in patient charts
• Communicate with physicians, patients, and the family members of patients concerning patient care.
• May participate in QI and research projects as time allows
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education Required: Master's degree in in Nursing.
• Experience Required: Preferred three years' experience in a clinical setting with adolescents
• Certification/Licenses/Registration: Current license as a Registered Nurse (RN) by the State of Texas Board of Nursing. Current Texas Licensure as an Advanced Practice Nurse (APRN-NP), and specialty certification as required by department. Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification

• For Physician Assistants: Master's degree in Physician Assistant Studies. NOTE: Bachelor's degree in Physician Assistant Studies accepted based on terminal degree requirements at the time of graduation.
• For Physician Assistant: Current license as a Physician Assistant by the State of Texas Physician Assistant Board. Specialty certification as required by department.