APP Advanced Practice Provider Neuro ICU Nights

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VUH Advanced Practice Provider

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.

Backed by advanced education, clinical expertise, and national certification, the APP delivers evidence-based, high-quality care with precision and professionalism. They excel in medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical proficiency, and interdisciplinary communication, promoting excellence in patient management. With a high degree of autonomy, the APP makes critical decisions, manages patient care plans, and responds swiftly to rapidly changing conditions.

Beyond direct patient care, the APP is committed to timely and accurate documentation, continuous professional development, and competency validation. Thriving in the dynamic critical care setting, the APP plays a pivotal role in advancing patient outcomes through collaborative, innovative, and compassionate care.

• 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. Our large referral base ensures we are consistently treating a full range of neurology and neurosurgical patients. Patients travel from all over the Southeast United States to receive the specialized care we provide. As a Comprehensive Stroke Center, we provide top‑level care and unique services to give our patients the best chance  critically trained team is on site 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing quick access to expert care.

Using a multidisciplinary approach helps promote team learning, group dynamics, and excellent patient care.

Our ICU specializes in providing critical care to patients with brain tumors, strokes, spinal cord injury, neuromuscular disorders, and many other diseases of the brain, peripheral nerves, and spinal cord. The neurological patient population often has extreme deficits, which requires bedside staff to possess excellent neurological assessment skills—thus, our team prides itself on teamwork and ever‑evolving skill sets.

Our excellence in patient care was recognized at the unit level in 2014 when we were awarded the AACN Beacon Award and the Professional Research Consultants, Inc Excellence in Healthcare Award for Overall Quality of Care.

• Obtains and documents a health history; performs and documents a 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—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…