Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Trauma

Job Summary

The Inpatient Advanced Practice Provider (APP) works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The APP provides healthcare in acute health care settings, including emergent, surgical and medical ICUs. The APP has didactic education, clinical competency and national certification in identified area of clinical practice. The APP demonstrates medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and is responsible for professional development and competency validation. The APP has an advanced knowledge of nursing theory and application.

Technical Capabilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 evidences to improve advanced practice.
• Integrates knowledge from the humanities and sciences within the context of nursing science.

Core Accountabilities

• Organizational Impact: Executes job responsibilities with the understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance.
• Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment.
• Breadth of Knowledge: Has expanded knowledge gained through experience within a professional area.
• Team Interaction: Provides informal guidance and support to team members.

Position Qualifications

• 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 patient's 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 specialty scope of practice.
  • Facilitates the patient’s transition between and within health care settings, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
• Certifications:
  • LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - Tennessee
• Tennessee Work Experience: Relevant Work Experience
• Experience Level: 1 year
• Education: Master's