Critical Care APP (NP or PA) – Surgical ICU (SICU)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is seeking a Critical Care Advanced Practice Provider (NP or PA) to join our Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) team. The SICU cares for critically ill adults recovering from complex surgical procedures, including trauma, liver transplant, vascular surgery, emergency general surgery, thoracic surgery, surgical oncology, orthopedics, and obstetric surgical cases. As an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) in our Surgical ICU, you will provide comprehensive assessment, clinical decision‑making, bedside procedures, and ongoing management of critically ill surgical patients.

Requirements

NP: Adult‑Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) or Acute Care NP (ACNP).
PA: Graduation from ARC‑PA accredited program + national certification.
1+ year of experience in Critical Care, ICU, or SICU preferred.
Current Tennessee licensure (or eligibility).
LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - TennesseeTennessee
Master's

Nice To Haves

1+ year experience as an AGACNP, ACNP, or Physician Assistant in a Surgical ICU (SICU) or Critical Care environment.

Responsibilities

Perform comprehensive assessments and daily evaluations of SICU patients.
Order, interpret, and act on diagnostic tests in collaboration with the multidisciplinary Critical Care team.
Manage acute and complex postoperative conditions within a high‑acuity ICU setting.
Perform bedside procedures appropriate to APP training/scope.
Collaborate with intensivists, surgeons, residents, pharmacists, and nursing teams.
Participate in SICU quality improvement, evidence‑based practice, and continuing clinical education.
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.
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.