Advanced Practice Provider - Thoracic Medical Oncology (Outpatient)
About The Position
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Nashville, Tennessee, is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) to join their Thoracic Medical Oncology team in an outpatient setting. VUMC is dedicated to advancing health and wellness through patient care, education, and research. The APP will collaborate with a multidisciplinary healthcare team, providing primary healthcare services. This role involves managing the care of patients, including general oncology, with a primary focus on thoracic oncology patients. The position emphasizes medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, effective communication, and timely documentation, all within an evidence-based practice framework to ensure safe, quality care.
Requirements
- LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - Tennessee
- LIC-Physician's Assistant Certified - Tennessee
- LIC-Registered Nurse - Tennessee
- Master's degree
- Less than 1 year of relevant work experience
Nice To Haves
- Oncology experience is preferred
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.
Benefits
- Affordable High Quality Health Plan Options
- Dental and /or vision plan
- 403 (b) retirement plan
- Paid Time off (flex PTO)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Adoption assistance (maximums applied)
- Short-Long term disability
- Subsidized backup childcare
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
