Occupational Therapist – Acute Care (PRN)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join their acute care team. This PRN (As Needed) position offers flexibility for individuals looking to supplement their current role, maintain acute care expertise, or find a schedule that better fits their lifestyle. The role involves providing occupational therapy services to patients with various impairments and functional limitations, collaborating with healthcare teams, and contributing to patient recovery and independence. VUMC is a leading academic health system known for its patient care, education, and research, with a commitment to an environment where everyone can thrive.

Requirements

Licensed Occupational Therapist
Acute care experience strongly preferred
Strong clinical reasoning and patient advocacy skills
Ability to work effectively within an interdisciplinary care team
Commitment to delivering compassionate, patient-centered care
Rehab Therapist Patient Documentation (Novice): 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.
Physical/Occupational Therapist Patient Education (Novice): 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.
Treatment Planning & Goal Setting (Novice): 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.
Treatment Implementation (Fundamental Awareness): 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.
Rehabilitation Therapist Patient Evaluation (Novice): 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.
LIC-Occupational Therapy License - Licensure-Others
Relevant Work Experience
1 year
Bachelor's

Nice To Haves

Acute care experience strongly 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 across a variety of inpatient units, including intensive care and specialty care settings.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized treatment plans.
Educate patients and caregivers on adaptive strategies, safety awareness, and functional independence.
Assess patient progress and make clinical recommendations to support safe discharge planning.
Document evaluations, treatments, and outcomes in accordance with hospital and regulatory standards.
Contribute to a culture of learning, collaboration, and clinical excellence.
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.