Nocturnist Advanced Practice Clinician in Abilene, TX

Job Description

Work alongside a leader who is invested in your growth as a clinician! Join the established Hospital Medicine team at Hendrick Medical Center North Campus as a full-time nocturnist advanced practice clinician. As a nocturnist nurse practitioner or physician assistant, you’ll work a predictable 7-on/7-off block schedule (7pm to 7am), averaging just 15 shifts per month, with additional shift opportunities available for those seeking extra income. You’ll be part of a collaborative night team that includes a dedicated nocturnist physician, swing-shift physician, swing-shift APC, and fellow nocturnist NPs and PAs, ensuring strong support throughout your shift.

Opportunity Highlights

• Primary responsibility: admissions and inpatient cross-coverage
• Collaborative practice model with physician and APC support overnight
• Average of 10-12 admissions per night across the team
• Opportunity to manage a diverse patient population ranging from low- to high-acuity cases
• Closed ICU staffed by intensivists
• Procedures are optional, with emergency medicine physicians available for procedural support
• Hospitalists manage and respond to codes for their own service-line patients with emergency physicians available for assistance
• Patients transition back to the hospital medicine team following ICU discharge

This position is ideal for experienced nurse practitioners or physician assistants who enjoy independent decision-making, thrive in a fast-paced hospital setting, and are comfortable managing acute inpatient care overnight.

If you’re seeking a robust hospital medicine practice, strong clinical support, and exceptional schedule flexibility, this is the role you’ve been looking for. Apply today to learn more!

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Benefits

- Position supports a good career/life balance
- Stability of being part of the industry leader in hospital medicine: TeamHealth
- Access to free and unlimited CME
- Access to comprehensive information and education for hospital medicine clinicians with TeamHealth Hospital Medicine Academy
- Paid professional liability insurance including tail coverage

Facility

The Hendrick name reigns over a 522-bed medical center, a women's center, rehabilitation hospital, cancer center and numerous other innovative services. Hendrick continues to offer aggressive, innovative treatments and preventive healthcare measures ranging from services such as cancer screenings and pre-natal education courses to electro-physiology procedures and pediatric intensive care.

About the City

No matter where you come from, you will find a little bit of everything in this university city of 120,000 located on 1-20 just 2.5 hours west of the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas metro. The city offers three 4-year colleges and hosts annual events that celebrate the western lifestyle and values of the working ranch. Abilene's civic progressiveness and its logistic function as a regional center for distribution, commerce, industry, transportation, and education provide an assortment of lodging, dining, cultural, and shopping opportunities typically found only in much larger cities. Enjoy the local lakes, the arts, the Abilene zoo, and an abundance of parks. Explore why people call Abilene home!

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