Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Primary Care - Brentwood

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Brentwood, CA

About The Position

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. Organization: Wmson Primary Care N Providers Job Summary: The Primary Care Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) is a Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) who works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The APC provides healthcare in primary, urgent, community-based, and long-term care settings, delivering services to individuals and families across the lifespan. The APC has didactic education, clinical competency, and national certification in the identified area of clinical practice, enabling the delivery of preventive healthcare as well as the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of acute and chronic illness. The APC demonstrates an ongoing commitment to patient-centered care and partners with individuals and families to promote engagement and shared decision-making, supporting optimal health, well-being, and self-management of disease processes. Supported by advanced knowledge of clinical theory and its application, the APC demonstrates evidence-based medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical competence, professionalism, effective interpersonal communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and lifelong professional development and competency validation. . Location: Primary Care - Brentwood Position Hours: Days - Monday through Friday 4.5 days per week Hours are generally 7:30/8:00 to 4:30/5:00 No Weekends or Holidays Call Required

Requirements

Prior APP Experienced Required
FNPs, ANPs, Adult-Gero Primary Care NPs, and PAs
LIC-Licensed Nurse Practitioner - TennesseeTennessee
Relevant Work Experience
Less than 1 year
Master's

Nice To Haves

Minimum of 2 years in primary care, urgent care, occupational health, or student health clinic) strongly preferred

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.
Demonstrates behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, and a responsible attitude toward their patients, their profession and society.
Participates in medical center committees, professional organizations and activities that influence advanced practice.
Demonstrates interpersonal and communication skills that enable them to establish and maintain professional relationships with patients, families, and other members of health care teams.
Communicates practice knowledge effectively both orally and in writing.
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.
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.
Within scope of licensure and certification, manages previously diagnosed and undiagnosed patients.
Uses health assessment skills to differentiate between normal, variations of normal, and abnormal findings.
Employs screening and diagnostic strategies in the development of diagnoses.
Prescribes medications within scope of practice.
Manages health/illness status of patients and families over time and across the continuum.
Provides patient-centered care recognizing the patient or designee as a full partner in decision making.
Creates a climate of patient-centered care to include confidentiality privacy, comfort, emotional support, mutual trust, and respect.
Incorporates cultural and spiritual preferences, values and beliefs into health care.
Preserves the patient's control over decision making by negotiating a mutually acceptable plan of care.
Integrates ethical principles into decision making.
Uses electronic health record to capture data on variables for the evaluation and management of patient care.
Clearly documents findings, assessment and plan of care.
Demonstrates established and evolving biomedical, clinical and social sciences, and the application of their knowledge to patient care and the education of others.
Demonstrates knowledge of population focus but also other sciences that support his/her field of practice.
Demonstrates knowledge of common and important health issues affecting society and other societies around the globe.
Demonstrates commitment in maintaining current evidence based knowledge through continuous learning.
Educates patients, families, students and other members of the healthcare team in clinical topics and application of clinical knowledge.
Demonstrates sufficient fundamental proficiency in behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, and a responsible attitude toward their patients, their profession and society.
Participates in professional organizations and activities that influence advanced practice.