Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Primary Care

Discover Vanderbilt Health : With eight hospitals and over 180 clinics, we are the region’s largest comprehensive academic health system. Vanderbilt Health has a long tradition of providing world-class care to the people of the Mid-South, living out our mission of moving medicine forward through preeminent programs in patient care, education and research. Here you’ll find a spirit of collaboration and a supportive community where your expertise is valued, your knowledge expanded and your uniqueness celebrated. We are committed to fostering an environment where talented, compassionate people are united in bringing the most advanced care to our neighbors throughout the region. Organization: NFP Provider Team Job Summary: The Primary Care Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) is a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) who works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The APC provides healthcare in primary, urgent, community-based, and long-term care settings, delivering services to individuals and families across the lifespan. The APC has didactic education, clinical competency, and national certification in the identified area of clinical practice, enabling the delivery of preventive healthcare as well as the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of acute and chronic illness. The APC demonstrates an ongoing commitment to patient-centered care and partners with individuals and families to promote engagement and shared decision-making, supporting optimal health, well-being, and self-management of disease processes. Supported by advanced knowledge of clinical theory and its application, the APC demonstrates evidence-based medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, effective interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and lifelong professional development and competency validation. . Outpatient Position - Primary Care Location: Vanderbilt Primary Care West End (2611 West End Avenue Nashville, TN 37203) Position Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm Requirements: Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) Required 1+ years of prior APP experience required Key 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, 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 scope of practice. Facilitates the patient’s transition between and within health care settings. The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned. Technical Capabilities: Health Systems and Policy Management (Advanced): Demonstrates sufficient fundamental proficiency in behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, an understanding and a responsible attitude toward their patients, their profession and society. Participates in professional organizations and activities that influence advanced practice. Patient and Family Centered Care (Advanced): Demonstrates care that is compassionate, appropriate and effective for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, treatment of disease and care at the end of life. Within scope of licensure and certification, manages previously diagnosed and undiagnosed patients. Uses health assessment skills to differentiate between normal, variations of normal, and abnormal findings. Employes screening and diagnostic strategies in the development of diagnoses. Prescribes medications within scope of practice. Manages health/illness status of patients and families over time and across the continuum. Provides patient/centered care recognizing the patient or designee as a full partner in decision making. Creates a climate of patient/centered care to include confidentiality privacy, comfort emotional support, mutual trust, and respect. Incorporates cultural and spiritual preferences, values and beliefs into health care. Preserves the patient’s control over decision making by negotiating a mutually acceptable plan of care. Integrates ethical principles into decision making. Uses electronic health record to capture data on variables for the evaluation and management of patient care. Clearly documents findings, assessment and plan of care. Clinical Knowledge and Practice (Advanced): Demonstrates established and evolving biomedical, clinical and social sciences, and the application of their knowledge to patient care and the education of others. Demonstrates knowledge of population focus but also other sciences that support his/her field of practice. Demonstrates knowledge of common and important health issues affecting society and other societies around the globe. Demonstrates commitment in maintaining current evidence-based knowledge through continuous learning. Educates patients, families, students and other members of the healthcare team in clinical topics and application of clinical knowledge. Practice-Based Scholarly Inquiry and Integration (Advanced): Demonstrates the use of scientific evidence and methods to investigate, evaluate and improve patient care practices. Anticipates variations in practice and is proactive in implementing i