Nurse Practitioner NP or Physician Assistant PA Neuro ICU Nights

Nurse Practitioner NP or Physician Assistant PA Neuro ICU Nights

Apply for the Nurse Practitioner NP or Physician Assistant PA Neuro ICU Nights role at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a community of individuals dedicated to advancing health and wellness through teaching, research, and patient care. Employees here are valued, learning is encouraged, and individuals are empowered to make impactful contributions.

The Critical Care Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is an integral member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team, delivering expert care in a high‑acuity, fast‑paced environment. In close collaboration with Neurology and Neurosurgery colleagues, the APP provides specialized care to patients with complex neurological and critical care needs, ensuring seamless coordination and optimal outcomes. The APP makes critical decisions, manages patient care plans, responds swiftly to changing conditions, and maintains timely, accurate documentation while pursuing continuous professional development.

• Full‑Time
• Nights
• 3 13‑Hour Shifts Per Week

The Vanderbilt Neurological ICU is one of the largest in the country with 23 ICU beds and 12 step‑down beds. Patients are referred from across the southeastern United States. As a Comprehensive Stroke Center
, the ICU provides top‑level care for brain tumors, strokes, spinal cord injury, neuromuscular disorders, and other neurological diseases. The unit has earned the AACN Beacon Award and the Professional Research Consultants’ Excellence in Healthcare award.

• Obtain and document a health history; perform and document a complete, system‑focused, or symptom‑specific physical examination, assessment, and plan of care.
• Collaborate to provide primary, acute, and complex care, managing patients’ overall care and identifying expected outcomes for diagnoses.
• Order, perform, interpret, and collect data using appropriate assessment techniques and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
• Form differential diagnoses and treat acute and chronic conditions.
• Prescribe therapeutic interventions—pharmacologic, non‑pharmacologic, and surgical—to achieve expected outcomes.
• Utilize evidence‑based practice protocols in planning and implementing care.
• Initiate appropriate referrals and consultations.
• Provide specialty‑specific consultation services within scope of practice.
• Facilitate the patient’s transition between and within health care settings, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.

• Professionalism (Advanced):
  Demonstrate continuous professional development, ethical practice, and responsible patient care.
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills (Advanced):
  Establish and maintain professional relationships with patients and the healthcare team.
• Practice‑Based Scholarly Inquiry and Integration (Advanced):
  Use scientific evidence to investigate, evaluate, and improve patient care practices.
• Patient and Family Centered Care (Advanced):
  Provide compassionate, appropriate, and effective care, honoring patients’ autonomy and cultural preferences.
• Clinical Knowledge and Practice (Advanced):
  Apply biomedical and social science knowledge to patient care and education.
• Health Systems and Policy Management (Advanced):
  Contribute to professional organizations that influence advanced practice.

VUMC believes highly skilled and specialized nursing care is essential to its mission of quality in patient care, education, and research. Nursing is an applied art and science focused on helping people, families, and communities achieve excellent health.

• 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‑ and long‑term disability
• Subsidized backup childcare
• Other benefits; inquire about the inpatient nursing supplemental pay program

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