Advanced Practice Provider - Urology

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) plays a vital role in delivering specialized care and managing the health needs of patients in either inpatient, ambulatory, or a combination of both settings. With advanced training and expertise, the APP focuses on subspecialized care, including chronic illness and disease management, ensuring continuity of care throughout the patient’s healthcare journey, which may span multiple years. This role involves specialization in a specific organ system, where the APP provides expert consultation within their area of expertise as appropriate. The APP is integral to supporting patients across the continuum of care in both inpatient and outpatient specialty settings, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to achieve optimal patient outcomes. The Department of Urology at Vanderbilt provides a comprehensive approach to patient care, blending innovative diagnostic, treatment, and research capabilities to deliver the best care possible while working to advance surgical approaches, including robotics, image-guided surgery, and minimally invasive approaches. The Vanderbilt Urology Clinic treats a wide range of conditions, including urologic cancers (prostate, bladder, kidney), incontinence and other bladder-control problems, kidney stones, and sexual health conditions like erectile dysfunction. The team invests in advanced technologies, such as a 3D MRI prostate biopsy system, for precise biopsies and personalized treatment plans. The large volume of procedures performed ensures patients receive the best care from highly experienced teams, including over 10,000 robotic-assisted urologic surgeries and over 2,200 pediatric urologic surgeries annually.

Requirements

LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - Tennessee
LIC-Physician's Assistant Certified - Tennessee
LIC-Registered Nurse - Tennessee
Relevant Work Experience
Master's

Nice To Haves

Less than 1 year

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 for 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 a specialty scope of practice.
Facilitates the patient’s transition between and within health care settings.