Nurse Practitioner​/Physician Assistant - Trauma

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Organization:

VUH Acute Care Surgery

Job Summary:

The Inpatient Trauma Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) works in collaboration with a multidisciplinary health care team. The NP/PA provides healthcare in acute health care settings, including emergent, surgical and medical ICUs. The NP/PA has didactic education, clinical competency and national certification in identified area of clinical practice. The NP/PA 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/PA has an advanced knowledge of nursing theory and application.

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Position

Hours:

• Full-Time

• Nights

Department Summary:

We are the only adult and pediatric Level 1 trauma center in Middle Tennessee. Annually, we care for more than 8,000 people and treat more than 4,800 acute (life-threatening) trauma patients from Middle Tennessee and from surrounding areas across the Southeast.

• Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) / Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP) or Physician Assistant (PA) Required

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 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.

• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

• Professionalism (Advanced):
  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.

• Interpersonal and Communication Skills (Advanced):
  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 (Advanced):
  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 evidences to improve advanced practice. Integrates knowledge from the humanities and sciences within the context of nursing science.

• 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. Employs screening and diagnostic strategies in the development of diagnoses.
  
  Prescribes medications within scope of…