Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Advanced Lung Disease Specialist

College of Charleston • Nashville-Davidson, TN, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 1m ago

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse 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 recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated.

Organization: VUH Advanced Practice Provider

Job Summary:

Works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. Provides healthcare in primary care, acute care, critical care, and long-term health care settings. Has didactic education, clinical competency, and national certification in the identified area of clinical practice. Demonstrates medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and is responsible for professional development and competency validation. Has an advanced knowledge of nursing theory and application. Participates in the medical and surgical care of solid organ transplant patients and/or living donors in the clinical acute care and/or ambulatory setting. Responsible for the development, promotion, and coordination of a multidisciplinary plan of care from the time of referral for transplantation or organ donation through the evaluation process, hospitalization, and continuing after discharge to assure adequate health maintenance and long-term care of the transplant patient.

Position Hours

Full-Time
Rotating Days/Nights (1/3 nights 2/3 days)
3 - 13 Hour Shifts Per Week

Department Summary

The Vanderbilt Lung Institute brings together experts in diagnosing and treating lung disease from pulmonary medicine, thoracic surgery, and allergy. This unique approach gives hope through coordinated, personalized, and compassionate care for even the most complex conditions that affect the lungs and breathing.

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 patient's 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 patient's transition between and within health care settings, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

Professionalism (Advanced): Demonstrates behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, an understanding and sensitivity to diversity, and a responsible attitude toward their patients, their profession, and society.
Practice-Based Scholarly Inquiry and Integration (Advanced): Demonstrates the use of scientific evidence and methods to investigate, evaluate and improve patient care practices.
Interpersonal and Communication Skills (Intermediate): Demonstrates interpersonal and communication skills that enable them to establish and maintain professional relationships with patients, families, and other members of health care teams.
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 (Intermediate): Demonstrates sufficient fundamental proficiency in behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, an understanding and sensitivity to diversity, 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 Center's mission of quality in patient care, education, and research.

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.

Position Qualifications:

Responsibilities:

Certifications: LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - Tennessee

Work Experience: Relevant Work Experience

Experience Level: Less than 1 year

Education: Master's

Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and to the principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action. EOE/AA/Women/Minority/Vets/Disabled

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