Advanced Practice Provider - Pediatric Otolaryngology

Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderbilt Health’s Otolaryngology – Pediatric team seeks an Advanced Practice Provider to support complex pediatric ENT outpatient care. The APP will contribute to chronic illness management, collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, and participate in subspecialized care within the ENT continuum.

The role emphasizes continuity of care in an outpatient setting across campuses including main hospital and satellites, with a schedule of 8a–4p four days a week and one admin day.

Qualifications

• Experience with complex airway diseases.
• Background in critical care.
• Experience as an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Obtains and documents health history and performs focused physical examinations with plan of care.
• Collaborates to provide healthcare services for primary, acute and complex care and manages overall patient care.
• Orders, performs, and interprets diagnostic procedures and data collection as indicated.
• Forms differential diagnoses and treats acute and chronic conditions.

Skills

Complex airway diseases

Critical care background

APP experience

Job description

Organization:

Otolaryngology Peds APP

Job Summary:

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) plays a vital role in delivering specialized care and managing the health needs of patients in an outpatient setting. With advanced training and expertise, the APP focuses on subspecialized care, including chronic illness and disease management, ensuring continuity of care throughout the patient's healthcare journey, which may span multiple years. This role involves specialization in a specific organ system, where the APP provides expert consultation within their area of expertise as appropriate. The APP is integral to supporting patients across the continuum of care in outpatient specialty settings, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

DEPARTMENT SUMMARY

Complex pediatric ENT problems require skilled and nuanced solutions. The Vanderbilt Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery team works closely with additional experts at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, spearheading multidisciplinary care in programs like the Complex Aerodigestive Evaluation Team (CADET) , and the Velopharyngeal Insufficiency Program (VPI) . The Vanderbilt Pediatric Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery team also has experience in treating conditions like cleft lip, cleft palate, vascular anomalies, and refractory obstructive sleep apnea.

We offer clinics at the main Monroe Carell hospital and our locations in Murfreesboro and Spring Hill , where we see more than 25,000 outpatient visitors and perform more than 6,000 surgeries each year.

POSITION SHIFT AND LOCATION

• Schedule: 8a-4p 4 days per week in clinic with 1 administrative day
• Location: Hendersonville, DOT (main campus), Spring Hill, Murfreesboro, & One Hundred Oaks

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in complex airway diseases
• Critical care background
• Experience APPs preferred

KEY 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
• 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.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

• 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. Participates in professional organizations and activities that influence advanced practice.
• 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. 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. Employes 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, mut