Nurse Practitioner - Weight Management
Location: Sugar Land, Texas
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Texas Medical Center-Houston, Texas
Category: Advanced Care Providers
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Requisition #: 230001M6
What we do here changes the world. UTHealth Houston is Texas’ resource for healthcare education, innovation, scientific discovery, and excellence in patient care. That’s where you come in.
Excellent opportunity for an experienced advanced practice provider specializing in Weight Management to join the UT Health Houston Medical Weight Management team, providing its patients with compassion-based, science-driven care.
100% outpatient
Full-Time / Monday-Friday 40hrs per week, 1:1 appointments 8AM-5PM, possibility of shared medical appointments in the evening 6-8PM, in which case start time would be adjusted.
16-20 1:1 patients a day in addition to shared medical appointments
Virtual Visits also available
EPIC EMR
Requirements/Preferences Include:
Texas Advanced Practice Provider Licensure DEA Prescriptive Authority BLS Certification ANCC, AANP, or NCCPA Certification
Responsible for providing comprehensive patient care individually or in groups by performing health assessments, diagnosis, treatment, management, and follow-up affecting direct patient care.
Orient them about services, identify needs, and suggest programs best suited to support weight loss goals.
Maintains comprehensive knowledge of bariatric surgery, medical weight management treatment strategies/related pharmacology, and behavioral weight management.
Enjoys educating and motivating others utilizing motivational interviewing techniques, and has aspirations to help patients achieve their weight management targets.
Once you join us you won't want to leave. It’s because we reward our team for the excellent service they provide. Our total rewards package includes the benefits you’d expect from a top healthcare organization (benefits, insurance, etc.), plus:
100% paid medical premiums for our full-time employees
Generous time off (holidays, preventative leave day, both vacation and sick time – all of which equates to around 37-38 days per year)
The longer you stay, the more vacation you’ll accrue!
Longevity Pay (Monthly payments after two years of service)
Build your future with our awesome retirement/pension plan!
We take care of our employees! As a world-renowned institution, our employees’ wellbeing is important to us. We offer work/life services such as…
Free financial and legal counseling
Free mental health counseling services
Gym membership discounts and access to wellness programs
Other employee discounts including entertainment, car rentals, cell phones, etc.
Resources for child and elder care
Plus many more!
Position Key Accountabilities:
- Performs relevant patient assessments and physical examinations.2. Coordinates, directs, and implements patient’s plan of care.3. Orders, conducts, and interprets pertinent laboratory and diagnostic studies and procedures.4. Makes medical recommendations and/or referrals.5. Formulates, implements, and evaluates an outcome-based treatment plan.6. Maintains appropriate records detailing the patient’s treatment plans and outcomes.7. Facilitates patient education relating to medical processes, medication, nutrition, and health promotion.8. Collaborates with patients, families, other clinicians, and referral services to assist in the patient’s recovery.9. Other duties as assigned.
Provides health promotion and the assessment, diagnosis, and management of patient problems which includes the use and prescription of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic intervention, assessment, triage, and therapeutic management of patient/family needs throughout the disease process and across the health wellness-illness continuum as an integral part of an interdisciplinary team, according to the age/needs of the patient population served.
For prescriptive authority, APRN or PA acts under the delegation of a supervising physician, maintaining an active Prescriptive Authority agreement in accordance with regulations and policy.
Practices within approved protocols, guidelines, and clinical pathways and evidence based medicine.
Obtains medical histories; performs physical examinations/ reviews/orders/interprets diagnostic tests and radiographic results; formulates and manages patient treatment plan and outcomes; provides interventions and performs procedures within legal cope and authority that the APRN or PA is approved, delegated to and credentialed to perform including but not limited to incision and drainage, pelvic exams, lesion removal/destruction, suturing, and casting/splinting.
Collaborates in the development and evaluation of patient care.
Updates clinical guidelines/protocols/pathways; works autonomously and accepts accountability for outcomes; signs orders in accordance with institution and state board requirements; collaborates in research and teaching projects and applies research to practice.
Uses interpersonal and verbal communication skills to educate patient/family on care resources; participates in process improvement and multidisciplinary clinical outcome improvement activities utilizing advanced nursing expertise.
Ensures safe care to patients, staff and visitors; adheres to all UT Health Houston policies, procedures, and standards within budgetary specifications including time management, supply management, productivity and quality of service.
Promotes individual professional growth and development by meeting requirements for mandatory/continuing education and skills competency; supports department-based goals which contribute to the success of the organization; serves as preceptor, mentor and resource to less experienced staff.
Certification/Skills:
Current Texas Licensure as a Registered Nurse
Current Texas Licensure as an APRN-NP, and specialty certification as required by the department
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certified
Preference for Board Certification in Obesity Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine, or intention to complete both within 2 years of start date.
Minimum Education:
Masters in Nursing as NP or Masters degree in Nursing with completion of a post-masters Nurse Practitioner Certification Program.
Minimum Experience:
None required / Two (2) years of clinical experience preferred in area of Obesity Medicine
Physical Requirements:
Exerts up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently and/or up to 10 pounds constantly to move objects.
Security Sensitive:
This job class may contain positions that are security sensitive and thereby subject to the provisions of Texas Education Code § 51.215
Veteran Information:
Military occupations that relate to the initial selection criteria and registration or licensure requirements for this position may include but are not limited to: 0904, 0963, 1976, 46Y1C, 46Y1H, 66B, 66C, 4A0X1, 46YX, 65D, 230X, PHA10, 42GX, 66P, 66R, 290X.
For a complete list please visit www.uthealth-veterans.jobs.
Residency Requirement:
Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.
If you are looking for a great healthcare career in Houston, visithttp://go.uth.edu/careers!
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
Established in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is Houston’s Health University and Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery and excellence in patient care. The most comprehensive academic health center in the UT System and the U.S. Gulf Coast region, UTHealth Houston is home to schools of biomedical informatics, biomedical sciences, dentistry, nursing and public health and the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston includes The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, as well as the growing clinical practices UT Physicians, UT Dentists and UT Health Services. The university’s primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.
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