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Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work, and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilts mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
Organization: VUH Acute Care Surgery
Job Summary: The Inpatient Advanced Practice Provider (APP) works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The APP provides healthcare in acute health care settings, including emergent, surgical, and medical ICUs. The APP has didactic education, clinical competency, and national certification in identified areas of clinical practice. The APP demonstrates medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and is responsible for professional development and competency validation. The APP has an advanced knowledge of nursing theory and application.
Position Hours: Full-Time Nights 3 13 Hour Shifts Per Week
Department Summary: We are the only adult and pediatric Level 1 trauma center in Middle Tennessee. Annually, we care for more than 8,000 people and treat more than 4,800 acute (life-threatening) trauma patients from Middle Tennessee and from surrounding areas across the Southeast.
Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) / Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) Required
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES • Obtains and documents a health history; performs and documents complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific physical examination, assessment, and plan of care. • In collaboration, provides healthcare services for primary, acute, and complex care of patients and manages patients overall care, identifying expected outcomes for diagnoses. • Orders, performs, interprets, and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information, and diagnostic procedures where indicated. • Forms differential diagnoses and treats acute and chronic conditions. • Prescribes therapeutic interventions both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic, and surgical, needed to achieve expected outcomes. • Utilizes evidence-based, approved practice protocols in planning and implementing care. • Initiates appropriate referrals and consultations. • Provides specialty-specific consultation services upon request and within specialty scope of practice. • Facilitates the patients transition between and within health care settings, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position, and additional duties may be assigned.
TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
• Professionalism (Advanced): Demonstrates behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, and a responsible attitude toward their patients, their profession, and society. • Interpersonal and Communication Skills (Advanced): Demonstrates interpersonal and communication skills that enable them to establish and maintain professional relationships with patients, families, and other members of health care teams. • Practice-Based Scholarly Inquiry and Integration (Advanced): Demonstrates the use of scientific evidence and methods to investigate, evaluate, and improve patient care practices. • Patient and Family Centered Care (Advanced): Demonstrates care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, treatment of disease, and care at the end of life. • Clinical Knowledge and Practice (Advanced): Demonstrates established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and social sciences, and the application of their knowledge to patient care and the education of others. • Health Systems and Policy Management (Advanced): Demonstrates sufficient fundamental proficiency in behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, and a responsible attitude toward their patients, their profession, and society.
Our Nursing Philosophy:
We believe highly skilled and specialized nursing care is essential to Vanderbilt University Medical Centers mission of quality in patient care, education, and research. We believe nursing is an applied art and science focused on helping people, families, and communities reach excellent health and well-being.
As a Vanderbilt University Medical Center employee, you make a difference to our patients and their families by bringing compassion and care to those in need of hope and healing.
Employee Benefits:
• Affordable High Quality Health Plan Options • Dental and/or vision plan • 403(b) retirement plan • Paid Time off (flex PTO) • Tuition Reimbursement and adoption assistance (maximums applied) • Short-Long term disability • Subsidized backup childcare • And many more...
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Core Accountabilities:
• Organizational Impact: Executes job responsibilities with the understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance. • Problem Solving/Complexity of work: Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment. • Breadth of Knowledge: Has expanded knowledge gained through experience within a professional area. • Team Interaction: Provides informal guidance and support to team members.
Core Capabilities:
• Supporting Colleagues: • Develops Self and Others: Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance and gain knowledge in new areas. • Builds and Maintains Relationships: Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships. • Communicates Effectively: Recognizes group interactions and modifies ones own communication style to suit different situations and audiences. • Delivering Excellent Services: • Serves Others with Compassion: Seeks to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customizes services to better address them. • Solves Complex Problems: Approaches problems from different angles; Identifies new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions. • Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Provides ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees effectiveness. • Ensuring High Quality: • Performs Excellent Work: Engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly. • Ensures Continuous Improvement: Applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them. • Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring. • Managing Resources Effectively: • Demonstrates Accountability: Demonstrates a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure. • Stewards Organizational Resources: Applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area. • Makes Data Driven Decisions: Demonstrates strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities. • Fostering Innovation: • Generates New Ideas: Proactively identifies new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources or methods to improve processes beyond conventional approaches. • Applies Technology: Demonstrates an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges. • Adapts to Change: Views difficult situations and/or problems as opportunities for improvement; actively embraces change instead of emphasizing negative elements.
Position Qualifications:
• Responsibilities: • Certifications: LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - Tennessee • Tennessee • Work Experience: Relevant Work Experience • Experience Level: 1 year • Education: Masters
Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled.