Physician Assistant - Adult Recon & Walk In Clinic (Davidson & Rutherford Co.)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center • Nashville, TN

15h • Onsite

About The Position

The Advanced Practice Provider works collaboratively with a multidisciplinary healthcare team and provides care in the surgical setting, including serving as the surgeon’s first or second assistant. Responsibilities may also include pre-operative history and physical examinations, progress notes, and patient and family education. The APP has didactic education, clinical competency, and national certification in the identified clinical practice area, including first-assist competency. The position requires medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and responsibility for professional development and competency validation. The APP must have advanced knowledge of surgical interventions and the first assistant’s responsibilities in the operating room.

The role is within Vanderbilt’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, whose faculty cover all nine orthopaedic surgical disciplines and provide subspecialized care. The position schedule is four days in clinic: one day in Murfreesboro and three days at the Walk In Clinic/Recon in Antioch; and one day in the operating room on Fridays in Belle Meade.

Requirements

• Master’s degree.
• One year of relevant work experience.
• Tennessee Licensed Nurse Practitioner certification or Tennessee Physician Assistant certification.
• Clinical competency and national certification in the identified area of practice, including first-assist competency.
• Advanced medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, communication skills, and timely, compliant documentation.

Nice To Haves

• Orthopaedic experience.
• First-assist experience in the operating room.

Responsibilities

• Obtains and documents health histories and performs and documents complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific examinations, assessments, and plans of care.
• Collaborates in providing primary, acute, and complex patient care and manages patients’ overall care, identifying expected outcomes for diagnoses specific to the surgical area.
• Performs the first assistant role in the surgical environment.
• Orders, performs, interprets, and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques and relevant diagnostic information and procedures.
• Forms differential diagnoses and treats acute and chronic conditions.
• May prescribe pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic, and surgical therapeutic interventions needed to achieve expected outcomes.
• Uses evidence-based, approved practice protocols to plan and implement care.
• Initiates appropriate referrals and consultations.
• Provides specialty-specific consultation services when requested and within the scope of practice.
• Facilitates patients’ transitions between the operative area and appropriate units or recovery areas.
• Documents findings, assessments, and plans of care and uses the electronic health record to support evaluation and management of patient care.
• Maintains professional development and competency, contributes to practice improvement, and educates patients, families, students, and healthcare team members.

Benefits

• Affordable high-quality health plan options.
• Dental and/or vision plan.
• 403(b) retirement plan.
• Paid time off (flex PTO).
• Tuition reimbursement, subject to maximums.
• Adoption assistance, subject to maximums.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Subsidized backup childcare.
• Additional employee benefits may include health, disability, retirement, and/or wellness offerings.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level