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Organization: In-Patient Nrs Practnrs 40
Job Summary: The Pediatric Plastics Surgical Physician Assistant (PA) or Nurse Practitioner (NP) works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The PA/NP provides healthcare in ambulatory and acute care health care settings. This includes the inpatient management of surgical patients from pre-operative, peri-operative and post-operative phases of care. The PA/NP has didactic education, clinical competency and national certification in identified area of clinical practice. The PA/NP demonstrates medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and is responsible for professional development and competency validation.
Daily Roles, Responsibilities:
- Role provides both clinic and inpatient services.
- The pediatric plastics APP provides inpatient consultative services and expertise for the complex wound management and inpatient services to manage a wide range of pediatric plastic inpatients (cleft & craniofacial, trauma, wound, extremity in both floor, NICU & PICU settings).
- Primary contact for all pediatric plastic inpatients and active/new consults (Residents write daily progress notes and give sign-out but then go to the operating room and this APP manages the case load).
- Performs discharge teaching, orders from OR to ICU/floor, floor to home, and prescriptions.
- Participates in daily morning rounds with residents/fellows/attending to facilitate interservice communication, and throughout the day/between cases as needed.
- Liaison with other services to communicate plans of care.
- Routine Daily Bedside Procedures may include: Dressing Changes, Drain Removal, Wound Care, VAC changes, suture/stent removal.
Position Hours:
- Full-Time
- Day Shift
- Monday through Friday
Minimum Qualifications:
- Certified Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (CPNP-AC) or Physician Assistant.
- 1 year of APP experience strongly preferred.
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.
Position Qualifications:
- LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - Tennessee.
- Relevant Work Experience.
- Less than 1 year of experience.
- Master's degree required.
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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