Pediatric Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - PCICU
About The Position
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt is seeking Advanced Practice Providers (Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants) to join our highly specialized Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (PCICU) team. Our PCICU cares for infants, children, and adolescents with some of the most complex congenital and acquired heart conditions. As an APP, you'll work alongside pediatric cardiac intensivists, congenital heart surgeons, cardiologists, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and other multidisciplinary team members to deliver exceptional care in a collaborative and supportive environment. This is an exciting opportunity to practice in a high-acuity setting while developing expertise in advanced pediatric cardiac critical care, including ECMO, ventricular assist devices (VADs), heart transplantation, and complex postoperative cardiac surgical care.
Requirements
- Pediatric Nurse Practitioner - Acute Care (CPNP-AC) or Physician Assistant
- Relevant Work Experience
- Master's degree
- LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - Tennessee
- LIC-Physician's Assistant Certified - Tennessee
- LIC-Registered Nurse - Tennessee
Nice To Haves
- Prior APP Experience Preferred
- Less than 1 year experience
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 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 a specialty scope of practice.
- Facilitates the patient’s transition between and within health care settings, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
Benefits
- Affordable High Quality Health Plan Options
- Dental and /or vision plan
- 403 (b) retirement plan
- Paid Time off (flex PTO)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Adoption assistance (maximums applied)
- Short-Long term disability
- Subsidized backup childcare
- In-house overnight support from pediatric cardiac intensivists and fellows
- A collaborative multidisciplinary practice environment
- Exposure to advanced therapies, including ECMO, VADs, heart transplantation, and complex congenital heart disease management
- Opportunities for professional growth, leadership development, and continuing education
- Participation in research and quality improvement initiatives
- A structured six-month mentorship and onboarding program for new graduate APPs
- Relocation assistance available for candidates relocating more than 100 miles from Nashville
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
