NP or PA - Heart Failure Team

About the role

Vanderbilt Health is expanding and is seeking Acute Care Nurse Practitioners or Physician Assistants for an Advanced Heart Failure team. This team was established in May 2025 and is still growing.

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.

Requirements

• 1-2 years of inpatient APP experience is preferred (heart failure experience in an inpatient or outpatient setting is a plus).

Qualifications

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

Skills

• Evidence-based practice
• Collaboration
• Documentation
• Referral and consultation
• Transition care

Benefits

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

Details on pay will be provided during the interview process.

Schedule

The position is available for Day Shift with a shift of 6a-6p (12-13 hour shifts) with no call.

Benefits

Details on benefits will be provided during the interview process.