PRN Advanced Practice Provider– Occupational Health

Vanderbilt University Medical Center • Nashville, TN

23d

About The Position

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) collaborates with a multidisciplinary healthcare team and manages a defined patient population in an outpatient setting. The role emphasizes general, episodic, and preventive care and delivery of patient-centered services. The APP applies evidence-based practice and education, follows clinical pathways and protocols, and supports safe, high-quality care through advanced medical knowledge, clinical and technical proficiency, sound judgment, professional communication, and timely, compliant documentation. The provider also engages in professional development, competency validation, and continuous improvement of patient care standards.

The Occupational Health Clinic provides comprehensive occupational medicine programming to Vanderbilt workforce members. Services include care for work-related illness and injury and minor non-work-related illnesses, medical surveillance for work-related hazards, exposure evaluations, ergonomic assessments, and new employee immunization and screening services as appropriate for safe employment at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

The APP obtains health histories; performs and documents examinations, assessments, and care plans; provides primary, acute, and complex care; orders and interprets diagnostic procedures and information; develops differential diagnoses; treats acute and chronic conditions; prescribes interventions within scope of practice; uses approved evidence-based protocols; makes referrals and consultations; and facilitates patients’ transitions between healthcare settings. Additional duties may be assigned.

Requirements

• Master’s degree.
• Relevant work experience; the listed experience level is less than 1 year.
• Tennessee Licensed Nurse Practitioner, Tennessee Physician’s Assistant Certified, or Tennessee Registered Nurse certification/licensure, as applicable.
• Ability to provide care within scope of licensure and certification.
• Clinical assessment, diagnostic, and treatment skills, including management of acute and chronic conditions.
• Ability to use evidence-based practice protocols and document care in an electronic health record.

Nice To Haves

• At least 1–2 years of experience in a primary care or urgent care setting.

Responsibilities

• Obtain and document health histories and perform and document complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific examinations, assessments, and plans of care.
• Collaborate in providing primary, acute, and complex healthcare services and manage patients’ overall care, including identifying expected outcomes for diagnoses.
• Order, perform, interpret, and collect data using appropriate assessment techniques, supporting diagnostic information, and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
• Form differential diagnoses and treat acute and chronic conditions.
• Prescribe pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapeutic interventions to achieve expected outcomes.
• Use evidence-based, approved practice protocols when planning and implementing care.
• Initiate appropriate referrals and consultations.
• Provide specialty-specific consultation services upon request and within scope of practice.
• Facilitate patients’ transitions between and within healthcare settings.
• Provide compassionate, appropriate, and effective patient- and family-centered care, including shared decision-making and respect for cultural and spiritual preferences.
• Use the electronic health record to capture care evaluation and management data and clearly document findings, assessments, and plans of care.
• Maintain current evidence-based knowledge and educate patients, families, students, and healthcare team members.
• Use scientific evidence and data to evaluate and improve patient care practices and outcomes.
• Maintain professional relationships and communicate practice knowledge effectively, orally and in writing.
• Participate in professional development and activities that influence advanced practice.

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
• Short- and long-term disability
• Subsidized backup childcare
• Additional benefits may include health, disability, retirement, and/or wellness offerings

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level