Advanced Practice Provider - VICC Survivorship

About the role

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) plays a vital role in delivering specialized care and managing the health needs of patients in the ambulatory settings. 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. The APP is integral to supporting patients across the continuum of care, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Obtains and documents a health history; performs and documents complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific physical examination, assessment and plan of care.
• Collaborates, 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.

Requirements

Oncology experience is preferred (not required)

Qualifications

• LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - Tennessee
• LIC-Physician's Assistant Certified - Tennessee
• LIC-Registered Nurse - Tennessee

Skills

Health Systems and Policy Management (Advanced), Patient and Family Centered Care (Advanced), Clinical Knowledge and Practice (Advanced), Practice-Based Scholarly Inquiry and Integration (Advanced), Interpersonal and Communication Skills (Advanced), Professionalism (Advanced)

Benefits

As a Vanderbilt University Medical Center employee, you make a difference to our patients and their families by bringing compassion and care to those in need of hope and healing. Please see our current employee benefits offered: Affordable High Quality Health Plan Options, Dental and /or vision plan, 403 (b) retirement plan, Paid Time off (flex PTO), Tuition Reimbursement and adoption assistance (maximums applied), Short-Long term disability, Subsidized backup childcare, and many more...

Pay

Commensurate with experience

Schedule

4 days per week in clinic (8am-5pm) with 1 administrative day