PRN Advanced Practice Provider– Occupational Health

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

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About The Position

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) collaborates with a multidisciplinary healthcare team to manage a defined patient population in an outpatient setting. The role emphasizes general, episodic, preventive, primary, acute, and complex care, with patient-centered services grounded in evidence-based practice. The APP follows clinical pathways and protocols and supports safe, high-quality care through advanced medical knowledge, clinical and technical proficiency, sound judgment, effective communication, and timely, compliant documentation. The Occupational Health Clinic provides occupational medicine services to Vanderbilt workforce members. These include care for work-related illness and injury and minor non-work-related illness, medical surveillance for occupational 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 contributes to professional development and competency validation and supports continuous improvement of patient care standards. Additional duties may be assigned.

Requirements

Master’s degree.
Tennessee licensure as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant certification, and Tennessee Registered Nurse licensure, as listed in the position qualifications.
Relevant work experience; the listed experience level is less than one year.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Obtains and documents health histories and performs and documents complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific examinations, assessments, and plans of care.
Collaborates in providing primary, acute, and complex care and managing patients’ overall care, including identifying expected outcomes for diagnoses.
Orders, performs, interprets, and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques and diagnostic information and procedures when indicated.
Forms differential diagnoses and treats acute and chronic conditions.
Prescribes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapeutic interventions to achieve expected outcomes.
Uses evidence-based, approved practice protocols to plan and implement care.
Initiates appropriate referrals and consultations.
Provides specialty-specific consultation services upon request and within scope of practice.
Facilitates patients’ transitions between and within healthcare settings.
Maintains current evidence-based knowledge through continuous learning and contributes to quality improvement in clinical practice.
Educates patients, families, students, and healthcare team members on clinical topics and the application of clinical knowledge.
Clearly documents findings, assessments, and plans of care using the electronic health record.
Participates in professional organizations, medical center committees, and activities that influence advanced practice.