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VMG Nurse Practitioner (Peds Outreach Medicine)
Vanderbilt Health
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VMG Nurse Practitioner (Peds Outreach Medicine)

Vanderbilt Health

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Posted:
November 15, 2019
Location:
Nashville, Tennessee
Salary:
Open
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VMG Nurse Practitioner (Peds Outreach Medicine)

1811261

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity -- of culture, thinking, learning and leading -- is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Click Here To View The VUMC Promise of Discovery

Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt is one of the nation's leading children's hospitals. We treat and help prevent all health issues ranging from colds and broken bones to heart disease and cancer.

The world-class facilities at Children's Hospital are a testament to our community's dedication to the health of children. Constructed in 2004 and expanded in 2012, our 271-bed hospital is a child-friendly place built on the science of healing.

A building alone does not make a great hospital. Our exceptional medical teams and the generous support of people like you enable us to provide every child who comes to us with the hope of improved health. Children's Hospital is a nonprofit facility. No child who needs our services is denied care on the basis of limited ability to pay.

Many of our doctors and surgeons are nationally recognized researchers who are finding new ways to cure and prevent childhood diseases. Their work preventing and treating premature birth, cancer, heart disease, spina bifida, and many other conditions is an investment in the future. We are at an important crossroads in child health. Our commitment to research and advocacy positions us to bring the promise of good health to children and families in our community and to share that hope with the world.

Your Role :

The pediatric newborn nursery Advance Practice Provider (NP/PA) works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The APP generally functions in the newborn nursery and delivery room hospital setting and/or the primary care outpatient setting in collaboration with the general pediatricians. The APP has a strong foundation in delivery room and newborn care. The APP demonstrates an advanced level of medical and nursing knowledge, clinical and technical competence, sound clinical judgment, professional communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and is responsible for professional development and competency validation. This job requires days, evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Candidates must have pediatric nursing or advanced practice experience.

Candidates must have pediatric acute care, neonatal, or physician's assistant certification.

Must have NRP, BLS certification



Key Functions and Expected Performances:

  1. Assessment of Health Status

    1. Performs and documents in the medical record a complete history and physical examination for acute and complex chronically ill patients.

    2. Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.

    3. The nurse practitioner may serve as the first responder for both nursing and house staff in the event of patient status changes, orders, and in situations requiring procedural and resuscitative interventions.

    4. Coordinates daily rounds with the attending physician teams, presents 24 hour patient report, collaborates in plan of care.

  2. Diagnosis

    1. Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.

    2. Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.

    3. Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.

    4. Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions.

  3. Formulates Plan of Care

    1. Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis, and formulates and documents a plan of care to address immediate critical care needs.

    2. Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines, pathways or protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.

  4. Implements and modifies plan of care

    1. Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic and surgical, needed to achieve expected outcomes.

    2. Manages further diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.

    3. May perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation, including minor suturing, complex wound management, line and tube placements and removals.

  5. Communication and Collaboration

    1. Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team.

    2. Facilitates and communicates with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient continuum of care.

  6. Documentation

    1. Documents/dictates key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and/or clinic note where applicable. (h&p, daily progress notes, plan of care, problem lists, procedure notes, acute event note, discharge summaries in medical record per specific patient unit or service, death summary)

    2. Documentation is timely, meets critical care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.

  7. Professional Practice

    1. Demonstrates Professional Practice behaviors including: preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of students, nursing staff, nurses, graduate and novice nurse practitioners.

    2. Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice.

    3. Actively participates in Grand Rounds, APN council meetings, faculty and unit meetings, M&M presentations.

    4. Maintains CEUs, and membership in a professional organization.

Position Qualifications

Required:

Master's Degree (or equivalent experience) and < 1-year experience. 12 months of nursing experience preferred; Inpatient acute care advanced practice nursing experience desirable.

Licensure, Certification, and/or Registration (LCR):

  • Registered Nurse Required


Shift:

Monday - Friday Day Shift

VUMC Recent Accomplishments

Because we are committed to providing the best in patient care, education and research, we are proud of our recent accomplishments:

* US News & World Report: #1 Hospital in Tennessee, #1 Health Care Provider in Nashville, #1 Audiology ( Bill Wilkerson Center ), 12 adult and 10 pediatric clinical specialties ranked among the nation's best, #15 Education and Training

* Truven Health Analytics: among the top 50 cardiovascular hospitals in the U.S.

* Becker's Hospital Review: one of the "100 Greatest Hospitals in America"

* The Leapfrog Group: grade "A" in Hospital Safety Score

* National Institutes of Health: among the top 10 grant awardees for medical research in the US

* Magnet Recognition Program: Vanderbilt nurses are the only group honored in Tennessee

* Nashville Business Journal: Middle Tennessee's healthiest employer

* American Hospital Association: among the 100 "Most Wired" medical systems in the US


Internal Number: 1811261
About Vanderbilt Health
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is home to Vanderbilt University Hospital, The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and the Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital. These hospitals experienced more than 61,000 inpatient admissions during fiscal year 2015. Vanderbilt’s adult and pediatric clinics treated nearly 2 million patients during this same period.Vanderbilt University Hospital and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are recognized again this year by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals as among the nation’s best with 18 nationally ranked specialties. Vanderbilt University Medical Center is world renowned because of the innovation, work ethic and collegiality of its employees. From our health care advances to our compassionate care, Vanderbilt owes its accomplishments and reputation to staff and faculty who bring skill and drive and innovation to the medical center day after day. World-leading academic departments and comprehensive centers of excellence pursue scientific discoveries and transformational educational and clinical advances across the entire spectrum of health and disease.As th...e largest employer in middle Tennessee, we welcome those who are interested in ongoing development in a caring, culturally sensitive and professional atmosphere. Most of us spend so much of our lives at work, we want to be part of maintaining a workplace in which people support one another and encourage reaching for excellence. Many high-achieving employees stay at Vanderbilt because of the professional growth they experience and because of their appreciation of Vanderbilt’s benefits, public events and discussions, athletic opportunities, beautiful setting and, above all, sense of community and purpose.Vanderbilt and its employees share a set of mutual expectations that have been created with productivity, legality, fairness and safety always in mind. We believe that our investment in training and compensating employees multiplies in value when we enable individuals to deliver their best performance for the benefit of us all.
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