Cook Children's Health Care System
Prosper, TX, USA
Summary The Pediatric Surgery Nurse Practitioner (NP)/Physician Assistant (PA) for Prosper functions in a collaborative fashion with his/her supervising surgeon(s) in a group practice inpatient and outpatient setting. The NP/PA provides all first call assistance for calls from the Prosper medical center ED and inpatient floors. This requires extensive call responsibility 24/7. The pediatric surgery department will own service for the Prosper medical center which requires the pediatric surgery department to make all surgical admissions and own the primary service for all surgery patients. The NP/PA autonomously performs patient assessments, diagnosis, and implements an appropriate plan of care as defined by evidence based medical care and approved guidelines. The patient population includes the full range of general pediatric surgery patients. The NP/PA prescribes a variety of treatment modalities to meet patient care needs in the defined patient population. This includes but is...