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:
Emergency Medicine Community
Job Summary:
The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is an integral member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team, delivering expert care in the Critical Care setting. This role involves managing high-acuity intensive care unit (ICU) patients with unstable conditions who require intensive oversight, frequent rounding, and specialized care. Patients may include those in medical and surgical ICUs with complex needs requiring advanced interventions. The APP is responsible for managing complex conditions while ensuring delivery of safe, high-quality care. This role requires advanced medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical proficiency, professionalism, and excellent interpersonal communication skills. The APP is also accountable for timely and compliant documentation, ongoing professional development, and competency validation. With a strong foundation of medical knowledge, the APP combines evidence-based practice with clinical expertise to meet the unique needs of critical care patients. .
Job Description
Preferred Qualifications:
Nurse Practitioner - FNP (ENP preferred) + emergency medicine provider experience
Physician Assistant - at least 1 year of emergency medicine provider experience
Will consider provider experience outside of emergency medicine - ICU, CV
Department Summary:
For more than 70 years, Vanderbilt Clarksville Hospital has been taking care of patients and families in Clarksville and the surrounding area. A part of the Vanderbilt Health community of hospitals and clinics, Vanderbilt Clarksville Hospital has been the hometown hospital, helping the community access a broad range of medical care and services.
High-quality emergency care
When you need us most, we're ready. Count on Vanderbilt Clarksville Hospital to deliver high-quality emergency care when and where you need it most. Our experienced emergency physicians and nurses are ready around the clock to provide immediate treatment for a wide range of acute illnesses, injuries and conditions.
Commitment to community
We are pleased to have made a significant impact on Montgomery County, through patients served, trainings offered, charity, salaries, investments and uncompensated care. With more than 1,000 employees, we are one of the community’s largest employers. Through its eight hospitals and more than 180 clinics, Vanderbilt Health contributes nearly $1 billion in total community benefit and investment
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…