Physician Assistant (PA), Ambulatory - Epilepsy Division

Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Vaughan; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is seeking a dedicated Physician Assistant for the Epilepsy Division, operating primarily in an outpatient setting. This role involves collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to manage complex patient care, ensuring adherence to clinical pathways and protocols while promoting quality care.

Benefits

Affordable Health Plan Options

Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Short-Long Term Disability

Subsidized Backup Childcare

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a high-volume clinic.
• Neurology or outpatient experience preferred.
• Less than 1 year of relevant work experience.

Responsibilities

• Perform complete history and physical examination for complex chronically ill patients.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary healthcare team.
• Document patient progress and plans of care.

Skills

Collaboration

Professional communication

Clinical judgment

Education

Master's degree

LIC-Physician's Assistant Certified - Tennessee

Job description

Physician Assistant (PA), Ambulatory - Epilepsy Division

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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:

Neurology

Job Summary:

The specialty Physician Assistant (PA) in the ambulatory care setting works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The specialty PA is generally service/physician aligned, managing a distinct patient population in the outpatient setting. The PA functioning primarily in a clinic setting may be required to perform some coordination of iPAatient care and facilitate discharges/outpatient follow up. The specialty clinic PA has a strong foundation in evidenced based practice/education and is responsible for ensuring adherence to clinical pathways/protocols and ensures an environment of safe quality care. The PA demonstrates an advanced level of medical and nursing knowledge, clinical/technical competence, sound clinical judgment, professional communication skills, timely and compliant documentation, and responsible for professional development and competency validation.

Position Shift:

Monday-Friday typical clinic hours

No call, no weekends, no holidays

100% outpatient setting

Department Summary:

The Epilepsy Division is home to a team of experts dedicated to individualized patient care, groundbreaking epilepsy research, and training the next generation of epileptologists. The occurrence of seizures greatly diminishes quality of life for patients, which is why the goal of the Epilepsy Division is to develop curative treatment plans to completely eliminate seizures.

The Vanderbilt Epilepsy Center is the largest and only adult level 4 epilepsy center in Tennessee. It serves patients from a multistate region with cutting-edge technologies and surgical treatment options. It incorporates a very busy eight-bed adult Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU), ICU EEG, IOM, and Epilepsy surgery services, as well as an outpatient clinic. The EMU performs long-term EEG-video monitoring, allowing neurologists to record seizures to characterize, classify, and localize them in order to determine the best treatment options.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in a high-volume clinic
• Neurology experience
• Outpatient experience
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Assessment of Health Status
• Performs and documents in the medical record a complete history and physical examination for acute and complex chronically ill patients.
• The Physician Assistant may serve as the first responder for both nursing and house staff in the event of patient status changes, orders, and in situations requiring procedural and resuscitative interventions.
• Assesses for risks associated with the care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions and diagnostic procedures.
• Coordinates daily clinic schedule with the attending physician team, presents patient report, collaborates in plan of care, and follows assigned patient population.
• Diagnosis
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.
• Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
• Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.
• Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions.
• Formulates Plan of Care
• Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis, and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs.
• Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines or protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.
• Implements and modifies plan of care
• Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic, and surgical, needed to achieve expected outcomes.
• Manages further diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.
• May perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation, including minor suturing, complex wound management, line and tube placements and removals.
• Communication and Collaboration
• Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team .
• Facilitates and communicates with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the outpatient continuum of care.
• Documentation.
• Documents/dictates key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and/or clinic note where applicable. (h&p, daily progress notes, plan of care, problem lists, procedure notes, acute event note, discharge summaries in medical record per specific patient unit or service, death summary)
• Documentation is timely, meets critical care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.
• Professional Practice
• Demonstrates Professional Practice behaviors including: preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of students, nursing staff, nurses, graduate and novice Physician Assistants,
• Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice.
• Actively participates in Grand Rounds, APN council meetings, faculty and unit meetings, M&M presentations.
• Maintains CEUs, and membership in a professional organization.
  
  

Technical Capabilities

Our Nursing Philosophy:

We believe highly skilled and specialized nursing care is essential to Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s mission of quality in patient care, education and research. We believe nursing is an applied art and science focused on helping people, families and communities reach excellent health and well-being.

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... Ask us about our current inpatient nursing supplemental Pay Program!
  
  

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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.

Core Capabilities :

Supporting Colleagues:- Develops Self and Others: Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance e and gain knowledge in new areas.- Builds and Maintains Relationships: Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships.- Communicates Effectively: Recognizes group interactions and modifies one's own communication style to suit different situations and audiences. Delivering Excellent Services:- Serves Others with Compassion: Seeks to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customizes services to better address them.- Solves Complex Problems: Approaches problems from different angles; Identifies new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions.- Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Provides ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees' effectiveness. Ensuring High Quality: - Performs Excellent Work: Engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly.- Ensures Continuous Improvement: Applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them. - Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring. Managing Resources Effectively: - Demonstrates Accountability: Demonstrates a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.- Stewards Organizational Resources: Applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area.- Makes Data Driven Decisions: Demonstrates strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities. Fostering Innovation:- Generates New Ideas: Proactively identifies new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources or methods to improve processes beyond conventional approaches.- Applies Technology: Demonstrates an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges.- Adapts to Change: Views difficult situations and/or problems as opportunities for improvement; actively embraces change instead of emphasizing negative elements.

Position Qualifications:

Responsibilities:

Certifications:

LIC-Physician's Assistant Certified - Tennessee

Work Experience:

Relevant Work Experience

Experience Level:

Less than 1 year

Education:

Master's

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