Advanced Practice Provider - Vascular Surgery|Cardiovascular Health

The University of Texas Medical Center, anchored by Dell Medical School, is defining the future of health. Announced in August 2023, with planning and implementation underway, The University of Texas Medical Center will establish Austin as a premier healthcare destination alongside other major Texas cities. With two new, state-of-the-art hospitals—a UT specialty hospital and a cancer center built by MD Anderson-plus the academic and research expertise of UT, this initiative will provide integrated, world-class care that is the hallmark of academic medicine.

Purpose:

In collaboration with supervising physicians, provides for the expansion of individualized healthcare services by diagnosing and treating vascular conditions. Responsibility for outpatient, pre-operative, and post-operative management of vascular surgery patients.

Responsibilities:

• Obtains patient history and performs assessment via observation, interview, and examination.
• Orders, performs, and interprets diagnostic studies. Performs health assessments and screening.
• Identifies normal/abnormal health characteristics, develops plan of care, and initiates appropriate interventions. Timely response to patient questions/issues that arise as triaged by clinical staff and aids with emergencies, as needed.
• Provides direct treatment and management of conditions via prescriptive authority or referral to other healthcare providers or community resources, inclusive of administering medications according to the formulary protocol or upon patient-specific approval from the supervising physician or transmits orally or in writing on a patient’s record, a prescription from the supervising physician to a person who may furnish such medication.
• Counsels and educates patients and their families/caregivers concerning health conditions, treatment options and community resources.
• Documents delivery of health care and nursing processes in accordance with specific specialty area standards and network nursing policy.
• Participates in orientation and education of staff and students.
• Collaborates quality health care with interprofessional team members to manage/coordinate patient care for both in-patient and out-patient treatment.
• Fosters identification and implementation of innovative solutions to improve patient care or department operations.
• Integrates and contributes to professional practice standards, policies, procedures, protocols and leads improvements in patient safety-related processes.

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree.
• Licensed Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant specializing in Surgery with Prescriptive Authority credentialed from the Texas Board of Nursing or the Texas Medical Board.
• Experience as an acute care nurse practitioner or physician assistant.
• Ability to work efficiently and flexibly in a fast-paced environment with minimal guidance.
• Ability to address individuals and information with a high degree of sensitivity and confidentiality in various situations.
• Capacity to work well with physicians and other care providers as part of a multi-disciplinary healthcare delivery team.
• Capacity to work with trainees, including medical students and surgical residents.

If this is you, don’t delay – apply today!

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For more information, visit: dellmed.utexas.edu

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About UT Dell Medical School

About Dell Medical School and the University of Texas at Austin Medical Center
As part of The University of Texas at Austin, one of the nation’s leading research universities, the Dell Medical School pursues innovation in the redesign of healthcare delivery, excellence in healthcare research, and programs in interdisciplinary and inter-professional education. It is the fifth medical school in the UT System and the first medical school established in nearly five decades by a member of the Association of American Universities, an organization of leading public and private research universities.
The University of Texas Medical Center, anchored by Dell Medical School, is defining the future of health. Announced in August 2023 with planning and implementation underway, The University of Texas Medical Center will cement Austin as a premier destination for health care alongside other major Texas cities. With two new, state-of-the-art hospitals – A UT specialty hospital and a cancer center being built by MD Anderson – plus the academic and research expertise of UT, The University of Texas Medical Center will provide the integrated, world-class care that is a hallmark of academic medicine.
The Dell Medical School is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute to excellence within the learning health system.