Advanced Practice Provider - Pediatric Gastroenterology
About the role
Job Summary: The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) collaborates with a multidisciplinary healthcare team and is service aligned, managing a defined patient population in the outpatient setting. This role emphasizes general, episodic, and preventive care while delivering patient-centered services. A strong foundation in evidence-based practice and education is essential, as the APP ensures adherence to clinical pathways, protocols, and fosters an environment of safe, high-quality care. The provider will demonstrate advanced medical knowledge, clinical and technical proficiency, sound clinical judgment, effective professional communication, and timely, compliant documentation. Additionally, the provider actively engages in professional development, competency validation, and contributes to the continuous improvement of patient care standards.
Department Summary: Since its inception in 1974, our division has been dedicated to the comprehensive care of children and young adults with nutritional, gastrointestinal, or liver disorders. Our mission is to provide family-centered, state-of-the-art treatment for these disorders, to foster new discoveries that will change the manner in which they are prevented or treated in the future, and to train the next generation of physicians to become experts in our field. Consistently recognized by the U.S. News and World Report survey as being among the best clinical programs in the nation, the Division has developed several programs of clinical excellence that are multi-disciplinary and intimately linked to the research and educational missions. Our goal is to also provide exceptional care for children in their own communities when possible, and we now have satellite outpatient programs in seven different sites across Tennessee.
Our Nursing Philosophy: We believe highly skilled and specialized nursing care is essential to Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s mission of quality in patient care, education and