Occupational Therapist – Acute Care (PRN)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking a dedicated Occupational Therapist to join our acute care team on a PRN basis in Nashville, Tennessee. This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced hospital environment while supporting a highly collaborative and experienced rehabilitation team. This position is ideal for clinicians with prior acute care or inpatient experience who are looking for flexible scheduling while maintaining hands-on clinical practice in a high-acuity setting. As Middle Tennessee’s largest Level 1 Trauma Center, Vanderbilt Health provides the opportunity to work with a diverse patient population across ICUs, medical and surgical units, and the emergency department.

Requirements

Licensed Occupational Therapist or eligible for licensure in the state of Tennessee
Bachelor's degree
1 year of relevant work experience

Nice To Haves

Prior acute care or inpatient experience preferred

Responsibilities

Provides occupational therapy services to patients who have impairments, developmental disabilities, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function and health status resulting from injury, disease or other causes under occasional guidance.
Actively collaborates with the health care/educational team to meet patient care, outcomes and system improvement objectives.
Provide evidence-based occupational therapy evaluations and interventions for hospitalized patients.
Deliver care across a variety of inpatient units, including ICUs and emergency services.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans.
Educate patients and caregivers on functional independence, safety, and discharge planning.
Document patient progress in accordance with hospital and regulatory standards.
Participate in departmental initiatives and support a collaborative team environment.
Analyzes comprehensive information from formal and informal assessment that is pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine a rehabilitation treatment diagnosis.
Collaborates with stakeholders in establishing the plan of care, coordinates and implements care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the rehabilitation continuum.
Applies appropriate, evidence-based interventions to ensure effective outcomes and re-evaluates performance to assess patient's progress towards goals.
Employs strategies to promote successful return to home, community, and school/vocational environments.
Demonstrates proficiency in documentation practices. Documents in the appropriate templates and utilizes only approved abbreviations within patient documentation. Meets institutional standards for quality and timeliness of documentation.
Demonstrates proficiency in communicating functional impact of assessment findings, treatment interventions, treatment planning diagnosis, and disease process. Considers the communication needs/level of understanding of audience and may share appropriate information/literature. May supervise, educate and train students from professional programs of physical therapy, occupational therapy and athletic training.
Demonstrates sufficient proficiency in developing a plan of care that incorporates treatment interventions focused on meeting objective goals. Develops and documents patient focused short and long term goals that are functional and measurable. Identifies the need for and referral to other services, as needed.
Demonstrates proficiency in providing treatment consistent with physician prescription and established plan of care. Able to modify treatment plan as needed to demonstrate provision of skilled therapy services including progression of treatment throughout course of care, and revision of treatment interventions of goals not met. May supervise and direct certified athletic trainers (PT only), physical therapist / occupational therapist assistants, technicians and volunteers and students. Selects and follows correct protocol for care and utilize evidence based treatments.
Demonstrates proficiency in evaluating patients with physical deficits including impairments, developmental disabilities, functional limitations, disabilities, or changes in physical function by obtaining information pertinent to the assessment and administering and scoring standardized tests and objective measures of deficit areas. Selects appropriate measures and performs a functional assessment to document patient's status requiring skilled therapy. Interprets the results of the assessment and their significance to the patient, family, referring physician and other members of the health care team.