Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Primary Care

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

35d•Onsite

About The Position

The Primary Care Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) is a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) who works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The APC provides healthcare in primary, urgent, community-based, and long-term care settings, delivering services to individuals and families across the lifespan. The APC has didactic education, clinical competency, and national certification in the identified area of clinical practice, enabling the delivery of preventive healthcare as well as the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of acute and chronic illness. The APC demonstrates an ongoing commitment to patient-centered care and partners with individuals and families to promote engagement and shared decision-making, supporting optimal health, well-being, and self-management of disease processes. Supported by advanced knowledge of clinical theory and its application, the APC demonstrates evidence-based medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, effective interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and lifelong professional development and competency validation. This is an outpatient position in Primary Care at Vanderbilt Primary Care West End.

Requirements

Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) Required
1+ years of prior APP experience required
LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - Tennessee
LIC-Physician's Assistant Certified - Tennessee
LIC-Registered Nurse - Tennessee
Master's degree

Nice To Haves

The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

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 patients’ 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 for both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic, 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 scope of practice.
Facilitates the patient’s transition between and within health care settings.