For medical professionals at Medical City Children's Hospital

We are dedicated to helping our nurses be the best, enabling them to provide unsurpassed care to our patients.

If you’re thinking about applying, you’ll be interested to know that ours was the first hospital in North Texas to be recognized as a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for excellence in nursing care and is also part of an elite group to become Magnet redesignated. We have been redesignated as a magnet hospital four times. We think that speaks volumes as to the unique environment we have fostered for nurses to grow, learn, hone leadership skills and do what they do best — provide exceptional patient care.

Whether you’re driven to research, expanding your education, process improvement or serving on leadership committees, our nurses are challenged with opportunities and respected for what they bring to their jobs. Here is some of what you can expect working at our hospital:

• Each member of nursing services has an individual responsibility to pursue professional growth and development in order to maintain and advance knowledge, skills and competency for exemplary professional practice.
• Performance improvement activities provide necessary feedback and evaluation of services to promote improvement and innovation in patient care delivery. The actions of this process ensure the same level of care is provided to all patients with the same needs. Empirical outcomes are monitored for front line clinical decision making.
• The facility has an obligation to provide clinical educational experiences for nursing and allied health students and to collaborate with instructors to impact curriculum development and graduate quality.
• Each member of nursing services has an individual responsibility to promote service excellence with respect to our customers. Service excellence is integrated into and between all services, departments and staff in their interactions with all stakeholders.
• Nursing leaders round on patients daily.
• Nursing care is based on research (evidence) and literature.
• Nursing will take the leadership role in responding to global issues in nursing and the changing healthcare marketplace in meeting the needs of our customers.
• We have the responsibility to conserve resources and deliver care in a cost-effective manner.
• We have the responsibility to share clinical expertise, provide consultation and to mentor so we may enhance patient care.
• We have the responsibility to maintain high ethical standards and to promote the image of the professional nurse.

Lectures, links and continuing education (CE) courses are just a few of the resources available to help our nurses stay well ahead of the curve.

Our hospital participates in the Texas 2-Step Nursing Program, an initiative to help current employees purse a degree to become registered nurses. Working with local colleges, we provide financial support and other benefits as you earn your degree.

We are especially proud of the people recognized each year in The Great 100 Nurses. This tribute is sponsored jointly by the Texas Nurses Association, the North Texas Organization of Nurse Executives and the North Central Organization of Nurse Executives. The award serves to recognize nurses “for their everyday heroism and excellence in care.”

We release an annual report that highlights the excellent care and compassion that our teams provide. With this annual report, we celebrate nursing by reflecting on our accomplishments this past year. Additionally, we have the opportunity to rejoice in our commitment to making a difference in the lives of those we serve.

A PPM for nursing can be defined as a framework that symbolizes the driving force for nursing care. According to ANCC, the schematic or picture that represents an organization’s PPM should depict how nurses collaborate, communicate, practice and develop professionally to provide the highest standard of care for our patients. Typically, PPMs center around a theoretic framework that is evidence-based.

Our nursing theoretical framework is the Human Caring Theory by Jean Watson. Watson’s theory emphasizes that nurses provide caring to patients through intentionality and authentic presence, optimizing the patient’s ability to heal from within. Caring attitudes regenerate life energies and potentiate capabilities. Caring affects not only the patient but also the nurse and other members of the healthcare team. Ms. Watson theorizes that we must care for ourselves before we are able to care for others, making caring a mutually beneficial relationship.

A schematic is a simplified version, usually in a diagram or picture form, of a complex concept. A PPM schematic is a pictorial representation of an organization’s values, beliefs, theories and process for nursing practice.

A PPM for nursing can be defined as a framework that symbolizes the driving force for nursing care. According to ANCC, the schematic or picture that represents an organization’s PPM should depict how nurses collaborate, communicate, practice, and develop professionally to provide the highest standard of care for our patients.

Our children's hospital proudly provides a wide range of medical specialties that includes nephrology and orthopedics. We also have a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and are accredited by The Joint Commission and recognized in the ANCC's as Magnet Program. Hospital transfers are available 24/7 and staffed by a specially trained pediatric team.

Our certified Child Life Specialists receive presurgical preparation and training and are available for support in multiple service lines.

Our service lines include:

• Emergency— An accredited Chest Pain Center with a dedicated pediatric emergency room 27/4 and FastTrack urgent care services
• Cardiac care — Features a congenital heart program and is equipped with catheterization and electrophysiology labs, pediatric and fetal echocardiography, noninvasive diagnostics and cardiovascular surgery capabilities
• Craniofacial surgery — Run by a renowned multidisciplinary team offering plastic and reconstructive surgery, speech pathology services, genetic counseling and anthropology
• Medical/surgical — 24/7 pediatric hospitalist
• Neurosciences — Services include a spasticity program, neurological care and neurosurgery plus our Center for Epilepsy and sleep studies in the sleep disorder lab
• Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) — Designed a Level III-C
• Hematology and oncology — Program offers minimally invasive surgery, chemotherapy, bone marrow and stem cell transplants, cancer research and Orthopedic and Neuro-oncology
• Transplant — Heart, pancreas, kidney plus stem cell transplantation accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy(FACT).