Vanderbilt Health - Nashville, TN
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Mid Level
Nashville, TN
Hospitals
About the position
The Critical Care Nurse Practitioner (NP) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) plays a vital role in providing healthcare in critical care settings, including surgical and medical ICUs. This position requires collaboration with a multidisciplinary healthcare team and involves advanced clinical practice, patient management, and professional development. The NP is expected to demonstrate medical knowledge, clinical judgment, and technical competence while ensuring timely and compliant documentation. The role emphasizes the importance of diversity and inclusion in delivering exceptional patient care.
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 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.
Requirements
- Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) / Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) certification required.
- Minimum of one year Advanced Practice Provider (APP) experience required.
- Demonstrated medical knowledge and clinical judgment in critical care settings.
- Ability to perform and document comprehensive physical examinations and assessments.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in a multidisciplinary healthcare team environment.
- Participation in professional organizations related to advanced practice nursing.
Benefits
- Affordable High Quality Health Plan Options
- Dental and/or vision plan
- 403 (b) retirement plan
- Paid Time off (flex PTO)
- Tuition Reimbursement and adoption assistance (maximums applied)
- Short-Long term disability
- Subsidized backup childcare
