Critical Care NP: ICU Specialist Driving Advanced Care

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

Job summary

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is seeking a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner to collaborate with a multidisciplinary health care team in surgical and medical ICUs. The NP delivers advanced nursing care with strong clinical judgment, professional development, and compliant documentation as part of an academic health system.

The role requires didactic education, clinical competency and national certification in identified practice area, plus ability to prescribe therapies and coordinate

Qualifications

• The NP has didactic education, clinical competency and national certification in identified area of clinical practice.
• The NP 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 NP maintains an advanced knowledge of nursing theory and application.

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.

Skills

Professionalism

Interpersonal Skills

Scholarly Inquiry

Patient-Centered Care

Clinical Knowledge

Health Systems Knowledge

Education

Master's in Nursing

Job description

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is seeking a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner to collaborate with a multidisciplinary health care team in surgical and medical ICUs. The NP delivers advanced nursing care with strong clinical judgment, professional development, and compliant documentation as part of an academic health system.

The role requires didactic education, clinical competency and national certification in identified practice area, plus ability to prescribe therapies and coordinate