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Organization: VUH Advanced Practice Provider
Job Summary: The Critical Care Nurse Practitioner (NP)/Physician Assistant (PA) works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The NP/PA provides healthcare in critical care settings, including surgical and medical ICUs. The NP/PA has didactic education, clinical competency and national certification in identified area of clinical practice. The NP/PA demonstrates medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and is responsible for professional development and competency validation.
Position Hours
- Full-Time
- Nights (7pm - 7am)
- 3 13 Hour Shifts Per Week
$15,000 Sign On Bonus for Candidates with 2 or More Years of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Experience*
* The sign-on bonus is not applicable to current VUMC staff or former staff who have worked for VUMC in the past twelve months. The sign-on bonus is only available for full-time positions.
- Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) license required
- Critical Care RN or APP experience preferred
Department Summary
Novel, Hybrid Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Team with time split between Intensive Care and a dedicated APP Rapid Response Team. The APP Float Pool provides episodic coverage to the (6) specialty Intensive Care Units at VUMC, with applicants rotating in scheduling blocks. The dedicated APP Rapid Response Team is a 24/7 Team that responds to inpatient clinical deterioration, stroke activations, and cardiac arrest events.
Rapid Response Team/CCOT
The rapid response NP/PA provides healthcare across the hospital when a patient outside of an ICU has a change in clinical status that requires immediate interventions to evaluate and stabilize their condition.
RRT/CCOT is responsible for documentation and data collection related to rapid response and STAT activations as well as education to patients, nurses, and physicians in relation to rapid response and STAT calls.
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
- Master's degree
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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