NP or PA - Surgical CVICU - Nights

About the role

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is seeking experienced Advanced Practice Providers (Nurse Practitioners NP or Physician Assistants PA) for its Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CVICU). The CVICU is part of one of the leading Heart Transplant Centers in the world, offering a challenging and rewarding career in critical care.

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 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.
• Facilitates the patient’s transition between and within health care settings, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.

Requirements

• Minimum of 1 or more years of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner or Critical Care Physician Assistant experience.
• Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) / Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) certification.
• Previous APP experience in a CVICU setting or previous RN experience in an ICU setting is preferred.
• $15,000 sign on bonus for candidates with the required experience.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Practice-Based Scholarly Inquiry and Integration (Advanced): Demonstrates the use of scientific evidence and methods to investigate, evaluate and improve patient care practices.

Skills

• Advanced medical knowledge.
• Technical proficiency.
• Professionalism.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.

Benefits

• 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
• Many more...

Pay

$15,000 sign on bonus for candidates with the required experience.

Schedule

Full-Time Night Shift

• Three 13-Hour Shifts Per Week