Advanced Practice Provider - NP or PA - Trauma Surgery - Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital

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Organization

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Job Summary

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is a key member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team, collaborating closely with physicians and other care providers to manage a distinct patient population in the inpatient acute care setting.

Working with hospitalized patients, the APP provides specialized care and supports the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based medical services.

This role requires a strong foundation in evidence-based practice and clinical education, with the APP responsible for adhering to established clinical pathways and protocols to ensure safe and effective patient care.

The APP will demonstrate advanced medical knowledge, clinical and technical competence, sound clinical judgment, and professional communication skills.

In addition, the APP is accountable for timely and compliant documentation and actively participates in professional development and competency validation to maintain high standards of care..

Join Our Team as an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) – Trauma Surgery at Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital!

Are you an experienced Advanced Practice Provider looking for a rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing service? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy practicing at full scope, and relish the opportunity to shape the future of a dynamic surgical unit? If so, Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital’s Trauma Surgery team wants YOU!

Why Vanderbilt? As part of Vanderbilt Health, you’ll join a nationally recognized healthcare system dedicated to excellence in patient care, innovation, and professional growth. Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital is home to a Level 3 Trauma Service with a joint focus on Trauma Surgery and General Surgery.

With Vanderbilt, you’ll enjoy access to unparalleled resources, collaboration with world-class providers, and the opportunity to grow your career in an environment that values autonomy, professional development, and teamwork.

What’s in It for YOU?

SHIFT - Rotating Weekly Schedule

• Potential exists to flex to midday or night shifts as the service may require for coverage.
• Weekend Rotation: Gain work-life balance with a weekend rotation every 3rd or 4th weekend (Saturday/Sunday).

Autonomy and Full-Scope Practice: Vanderbilt empowers its APPs to practice at their highest level. You’ll have the autonomy to make meaningful clinical decisions while working closely with a collaborative care team.

Opportunity for Procedures and OR Time: Expand your skill set with hands-on opportunities for procedures. As the service grows, there is potential for operating room involvement.

Shape the Future: Join a busy and growing service where your expertise will directly contribute to the development and growth of the Trauma Surgery program. Be part of something bigger and help build a robust service that provides life-saving care to the community.

Professional Growth: Vanderbilt is committed to advancing the careers of its providers. The growth of this unit offers abundant professional opportunities to lead, innovate, and expand your expertise.

What We’re Looking For: We’re seeking a motivated and adaptable APP who thrives in dynamic environments. Someone with APP experience who can flourish in an autonomous environment (ideally with Trauma Surgery background) and has worked in surgical environments would be an excellent candidate.

If you’re ready to step into a role that challenges you clinically, offers growth opportunities, and allows you to work alongside a team dedicated to excellence in trauma and general surgery, we want to hear from you.

Key Details

• Position: Advanced Practice Provider – Trauma Surgery
• Pre and post-op care of trauma surgery and general surgery patients with potential for OR time in the future as the service grows.
• Location: Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital

Schedule

Rotating weekly schedule. Flexibility to work other shifts when needed. Weekend rotation every 3rd or 4th weekend.

Service Type: Level 3 Trauma Service (Joint Trauma Surgery & General Surgery)

At Vanderbilt, you’ll join a team driven by a shared mission to provide outstanding care and improve lives. If you’re ready to build your career while making a difference in the lives of patients and families, apply today!

Apply now to become an integral part of the Trauma Surgery team at Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital!

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 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, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
• 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 interventions to improve quality.

Uses best available evidence to continuously improve quality of clinical practice. Generates knowledge from clinical practice to improve practice and patient outcomes. Reviews data and evidence to improve advanced practice. Integrates knowledge from the humanities and sciences within the context of nursing science.

Interpersonal and Communication Skills (Advanced): Demonstrates interpersonal and communication skills that enable them to establish and maintain professional relationships with patients, families, and other members of health care teams. Communicates practice knowledge effectively both orally and in writing.

Professionalism (Advanced): Demonstrates behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, and a responsible attitude toward their patients, their profession and society. Participates in medical center committees, professional organizations and activities that influence advanced practice.

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