Neonatal Nurse Practitioner

Introduction

Join to apply for the Nurse Practitioner role at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo, TX. This position is part of our primary care team, providing essential patient education, counseling, and physical assessment in an ambulatory setting.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is nationally recognized for enriching the lives of others through education, excellent patient care, and innovative research. TTUHSC graduates more healthcare professionals than any other institution in Texas, delivering comprehensive clinical services to over 10 million individuals across 121 counties.

Provides primary care as part of a health care team in a specialty discipline. The role involves patient education and counseling, physical assessment, and interaction with patients, families, and interdisciplinary staff. Duties may include travel to outreach clinics and participation in educational efforts outside normal working hours.

• Obtain health histories and perform comprehensive physical and gestational age assessments
• Collaborate with the neonatologist regarding plans of care
• Provide staff education
• Stabilize and transport ill infants to Level III nurseries via ground and air transport
• Assist with obtaining operative/procedure consents
• Write orders
• Incorporate developmental care into patient care giving
• Promote family‑centered care and healthy infant‑parent attachment
• Participate in patient rounds
• Collaborate with physicians from other disciplines
• Attend morbidity and mortality rounds and medical conferences within the institution
• Perform procedures necessary to aid in identifying a diagnosis
• Care for a caseload of patients

Graduated from an approved accredited nursing program; current RN license in the State of Texas or the ability to transfer your license to Texas. Certification as a Nurse Practitioner in the appropriate specialty from an approved program recognized by the Texas State Board of Nurse Examiners. Recognition by the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners as an Advance Practitioner.

Prior experience working in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Resume / CV

• Health Plans + Supplemental Coverage Options – Individual health insurance provided at no cost for full‑time team members
• Paid Time Off – Including holidays, vacation, sick leave and more
• Retirement Plans
• Wellness Programs
• Certified Mother‑Friendly Workplace

Additional perks include special membership rates at local gyms and golf courses, access to state‑of‑the‑art software and facilities, and discounts on travel, technology, entertainment, and more.

Full Time

Monthly

5298.75

14571.56

Compensation is commensurate with the qualifications of the individual selected and budgetary guidelines of the hiring department, as well as the institutional pay plan. For additional information, please reference the institutional pay plan website at https://app
4.ttuhsc.edu/payplan.

No

None

Works 24 hour shifts in‑house

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46YX

66P, 66R

290X

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

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