NICU Pediatric Nurse Practitioner - Acute Care (CPNP-AC)

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner - Acute Care

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.

Job Description

• Works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team to provide healthcare in the acute care and critical care settings independently.
• Functions as an intensivist responsible for the day-to-day management of critically ill and convalescing infants from admission to discharge.
• Obtains and documents a health history for a neonate. Performs and documents complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific physical examination, assessment, and plan of care.
• Provides neonatal healthcare services for critically ill and complex patients. 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 in the neonatal population.
• Prescribes therapeutic interventions both pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic, and surgical, needed to achieve expected outcomes.
• Performs delivery room service and neonatal transport services, initiates appropriate referrals and consultations, and provides consultation services as requested within scope of practice.
• Facilitates the patient's transition between and within health care settings, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

Technical Capabilities

• Professionalism (Intermediate): 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 and/or health outcomes of a population focus.

• Interpersonal and Communication Skills (Intermediate): 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.

• Practice-Based Scholarly Inquiry and Integration (Intermediate): 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 evidence to improve advanced practice. Integrates knowledge from the humanities and sciences within the context of nursing science.

• Clinical Knowledge and Practice (Intermediate): 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.

• Patient and Family Centered Care (Intermediate): 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.

• Health Systems and Policy Management (Intermediate): 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 and/or health outcomes of a population focus.

Community Overview

Nashville is known for its rich music heritage and offers an unparalleled quality of life. From its thriving arts and entertainment districts to its beautiful parks and friendly communities, Nashville is an ideal place to live and work. Enjoy a city that perfectly blends the charm of Southern hospitality with the excitement of urban living.

Relocation available for candidates over 100+ miles from Nashville, TN.