Advanced Practice Provider – Orthopaedics Emergency Room

Vanderbilt University Medical Center • Nashville, TN

11h

About The Position

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is a key member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team, collaborating with physicians and other care providers to manage a distinct patient population in the inpatient acute care setting. The APP provides specialized care to hospitalized patients and supports high-quality, evidence-based medical services. The role requires evidence-based practice and clinical education, adherence to established clinical pathways and protocols, advanced medical knowledge, clinical and technical competence, sound clinical judgment, and professional communication. The APP is also accountable for timely, compliant documentation and participates in professional development and competency validation.

The position is within Vanderbilt’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, whose faculty cover all nine orthopaedic surgical disciplines and provide subspecialized care. The schedule is three 12-hour shifts per week, from 12 p.m. to midnight. Applicants must have licensure to see patients of all ages.

Requirements

• Licensure to see patients of all ages.
• One of the listed Tennessee credentials: Licensed Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant Certified, or Registered Nurse.
• Master’s degree.
• Relevant work experience; the listed experience level is less than one year.

Responsibilities

• Obtain and document health histories; perform and document complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific physical examinations, assessments, and plans of care.
• Collaborate in providing primary, acute, and complex healthcare services and managing patients’ overall care, including identifying expected outcomes for diagnoses.
• Order, perform, interpret, and collect data using appropriate assessment techniques and diagnostic information and procedures when indicated.
• Form differential diagnoses and treat acute and chronic conditions.
• Prescribe pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic, and surgical therapeutic interventions needed to achieve expected outcomes.
• Use evidence-based, approved practice protocols to plan and implement care.
• Initiate appropriate referrals and consultations.
• Provide specialty-specific consultation services upon request and within the specialty scope of practice.
• Facilitate patient transitions between and within healthcare settings, including admission, transfer, and discharge.
• Use health assessment skills and screening and diagnostic strategies to evaluate patients and develop diagnoses.
• Manage patients’ health and illness over time and across the continuum of care, within scope of licensure and certification.
• Provide patient-centered care, support shared decision-making, and incorporate patients’ cultural and spiritual preferences, values, and beliefs.
• Use the electronic health record to capture patient-care data and clearly document findings, assessments, and plans of care.
• Educate patients, families, students, and healthcare team members on clinical topics and the application of clinical knowledge.
• Use scientific evidence and methods to evaluate and improve patient care practices and outcomes.
• Maintain current evidence-based knowledge through continuous learning and professional development.

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, subject to maximums.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Subsidized backup childcare.
• Inpatient nursing supplemental pay program (availability and details described as current and subject to inquiry).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level