Renal Transplant Advanced Practice Provider

Join Parkland as an Advanced Practice Provider, where you will deliver comprehensive healthcare in a designated primary or specialty area. This role involves patient diagnosis, treatment, education, and referrals, while also serving as a clinical resource and role model for practitioners and students. You will contribute to optimal patient care quality and assist leadership in planning and implementing APP activities.

Practice Info

• Serves as a resource and role model for clinical practice, training, evaluation and direct management of practitioners and students in all areas encompassed by the service line to ensure optimal patient care quality.
• Assist leadership in assessing, planning, organizing, and implementing designated advanced practice provider activities.
• Supports interdisciplinary collaboration to ensure continuous quality care and to promote positive health outcomes with a focus on good customer service and patient satisfaction.
• Identifies work processes and flows for the assigned department.
• Assists in developing, implementing, and monitoring annual goals and objectives for the department that support the mission and objectives of PHHS and the department.
• Attends regular staff meetings.

Responsibilities

• Performs clinical practitioner duties in designated specialty area, including obtaining histories, performing physical exams, making assessments, ordering tests, and determining diagnoses and plan of care.
• Records health history, findings, treatment, and recommendations accurately, clearly, and concisely, while managing time effectively.
• Consults appropriately with supervising physicians and refers patients as necessary to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
• Includes patients and/or families in determining the plan of care, when appropriate, and educates them for self-management, follow-up, and compliance.
• Stays abreast of the latest developments, advancements, and trends in the practice field through seminars, workshops, professional journals, and active participation in professional organizations.
• Maintains and implements knowledge of all applicable rules, regulations, policies, laws, and guidelines that impact the respective APP fields.
• Develops effective internal controls that promote adherence to applicable state/federal laws and program requirements of accreditation agencies and health plans.
• Maintains current professional certifications and licensure as required by the organization and the APP's governing body, and completes all assigned modules and yearly PHHS obligations.

Requirements

• For Physician Assistant: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university and successful completion of an accredited Physician Assistant Program recognized by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) or its predecessors.
• For Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN): Master's degree in nursing accredited through the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. (ACEN).
• Current healthcare provider BLS for Healthcare Providers certification from American Heart Association, American Red Cross, or Military Training Network.
• For Physician Assistant: Current, valid Physician Assistant licensure from the Texas Board of Physician Assistants.
• For Physician Assistant: Current certification as a Physician Assistant by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants.
• For Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (Nurse Practitioner): Current RN licensure from the Texas Board of Nursing; or, valid Compact RN license.
• For Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (Nurse Practitioner): Current licensure from the Texas Board of Nursing as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) with authorization to practice as a Family, Adult, Gerontology, Adult-Gerontology, Adult-Gerontology Acute Care.
• For Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (Nurse Practitioner): Must have active certification as Nurse Practitioner by one of the specified certifying bodies (ANCC, AANPCP, AACNCC) for Family, Adult, Gerontology, Adult-Gerontology-Primary Care, Adult-Gerontology-Acute Care, or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner.
• For Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (Clinical Nurse Specialist): Current RN licensure from the Texas Board of Nursing; or, valid Compact RN license.
• For Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (Clinical Nurse Specialist): Current licensure from the Texas Board of Nursing as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) with authorization to practice as a Clinical Nurse Specialist and active certification as an Adult Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) by ANCC or AACNCC.