Family Nurse Practitioner - Personnel Resources

Would you like to work in a facility that will allow you to have work/life balance? Would you be interested in working at a small community hospital and have impact on outcomes and not be just an employee of a large system?

Would you want to live within an hour of Houston and have the access to a large city but live in an area that the hospital serves about 70K in the area?

If that sounds like the change you are looking for, please read on…

•Graduate of a Nurse Practitioner program required.

•One + years of experience as a FNP.

•Current Texas licensure as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse required.

•Basic Life Support certification required within 30 days of employment, before patient care is administered independently. Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification within 90 days of employment.

•The position is full time. Mon-Fri 8hr shifts. No on call as its a clinic setting.

•Range is $120K-$140K with RVU bonus depending on experience.

•A full benefits package included $1K CME allowance as well as a 5K sign-on bonus.

•Under general supervision of a Physician, the Nurse Practitioner provides chronic and minor acute care to patients at the Rural Health Clinic to provide availability and accessibility of primary and emergency health care to residents of rural areas that have a shortage of these services and health professionals.

•Practices within the confines of established protocol per the requirements under Federal law for the Rural Health Clinic Act, under the supervision of a duly licensed Physician in the State of Texas.

•Participates in the development, execution and periodic review of the written policies governing the services the clinic furnishes.

•Provides patient care in accordance with established policies.

•Understands, respects, and adapts patient care according to age, physical, emotional, cultural, and/or religious beliefs and needs of the population served. Understands, respects, and appropriately responds to patients verbal and non-verbal expressions of pain, confusion, emotion, and/or anxiety.

•Appropriately refers patients to specialty services that cannot be provided at the clinic.

•Maintains electronic patient healthcare records in accordance with state and federal mandates. This includes, but is not limited to timely, accurate, and clinically appropriate documentation in the electronic health record; and elimination of paper charting when possible.

•Promptly follows up on the review and communication of critical test results

•Responds in a timely manner to all patient calls or inquires.

•Works in collaboration with clinic leadership to achieve meaningful use, quality, and DSRIP measures.

•Actively participates in survey readiness activities and assures that department is compliant with all regulatory standards.

•Maintains CAQH profile and completes required updates.

•Position is located an hour from Houston.

•Looking for someone that is interested in being part of and growing a team. It is a clinic(Rural Health Clinic). Patient population with indigent care program.

•Average 15-18 patients per day. Will work with a great group that is growing. Have a family medicine residency program with Sam Houston that is in it's first year. The supervising physician of the Rural Health Clinic is also the SHSU Program Director.

•Facility is about 120 beds, accredited, not-for-profit acute care community hospital along with the Rural Health Clinic.