Advanced Practice Provider-Nephrology

Role Summary

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) plays a vital role in delivering specialized care and managing the health needs of patients in either inpatient, ambulatory, or a combination of both settings. With advanced training and expertise, the APP focuses on subspecialized care, including chronic illness and disease management, ensuring continuity of care throughout the patient’s healthcare journey, which may span multiple years.

This role involves specialization in a specific organ system, where the APP provides expert consultation within their area of expertise as appropriate. The APP is integral to supporting patients across the continuum of care in both inpatient and outpatient specialty settings, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to achieve optimal patient outcomes.

• Obtains and documents a health history; performs and documents a complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific physical examination, assessment, and plan of care.
• Provides healthcare services for primary, acute, and complex care of patients in collaboration, managing patients’ overall care and identifying expected outcomes for diagnoses.
• Orders, performs, interprets, and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, supporting diagnostic information, and diagnostic procedures where indicated.
• Forms differential diagnoses and treats acute and chronic conditions.
• Prescribes therapeutic interventions, including pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic, and surgical options, 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.

• Licensed Nurse Practitioner (Tennessee)
• Licensed Physician Assistant (Tennessee)
• Licensed Registered Nurse (Tennessee)
• Work experience:
  
  Less than 1 year
• Education:
  
  Master’s degree

• 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-term and long-term disability coverage
• Subsidized backup childcare

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