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Organization:
Otolaryngology Peds APP
Job Summary:
The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) plays a vital role in delivering specialized care and managing the health needs of patients in an outpatient setting. With advanced training and expertise, the APP focuses on subspecialized care, including chronic illness and disease management, ensuring continuity of care throughout the patient’s healthcare journey, which may span multiple years. This role involves specialization in a specific organ system, where the APP provides expert consultation within their area of expertise as appropriate. The APP is integral to supporting patients across the continuum of care in outpatient specialty settings, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to achieve optimal patient outcomes. .
DEPARTMENT SUMMARY
Complex pediatric ENT problems require skilled and nuanced solutions. The Vanderbilt Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery team works closely with additional experts at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, spearheading multidisciplinary care in programs like the Complex Aerodigestive Evaluation Team (CADET) , and the Velopharyngeal Insufficiency Program (VPI) . The Vanderbilt Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery team also has experience in treating conditions like cleft lip, cleft palate, vascular anomalies, and refractory obstructive sleep apnea.
We offer clinics at the main Monroe Carell hospital and our locations in Murfreesboro and Spring Hill , where we see more than 25,000 outpatient visitors and perform more than 6,000 surgeries each year.
POSITION SHIFT AND LOCATION
Schedule: 8a-4p 4 days per week in clinic with 1 administrative day
Location: Hendersonville, DOT (main campus), Spring Hill, Murfreesboro, & One Hundred Oaks
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in complex airway diseases
Critical care background
Experience APPs preferred
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 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.
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…