Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (NP) works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The NP provides healthcare in primary, urgent, community-based and long-term health care settings providing care to individuals and families across the lifespan. The NP has didactic education, clinical competency and national certification in the identified area of clinical practice enabling delivery of preventative healthcare for individuals and families as well as the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic illness. Primary care NPs demonstrate an ongoing commitment to patient centered care and partner with individuals as well as family's to promote engagement and shared decision making to assure optimal health, well-being and self-management of disease processes. Supported by advanced knowledge of nursing theory and application, the NP demonstrates evidence-based medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and life-long professional development and competency validation. The Occupational Health Clinic (OHC) provides comprehensive Occupational Medicine programming to Vanderbilt workforce members. This includes medical care for work-related illness and injury, as well as minor, non-work-related illnesses. OHC also provides medical surveillance for work-related hazards as well as exposure evaluations, ergonomic assessments, and new employee immunization and screening services as appropriate for safe employment at VU and VUMC.

Requirements

LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - Tennessee
Master's degree
Less than 1 year of relevant work experience

Nice To Haves

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

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.