Advanced Practice Provider- Geriatrics

## Advanced Practice Provider
- Geriatrics Apply:
Nashville, TN:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R-68461
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** Organization:
** Medicine - Geriatrics
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* Job 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..
** DEPARTMENT SUMMARY
** The Division of Geriatric Medicine at Vanderbilt is dedicated to promoting healthy aging through patient care, medical education, and research.  We believe there is a pressing need to reinvent how we care for older adults and address the training of our health professionals today to help shape tomorrow.
We want to be at the forefront of:

* Providing innovative and exceptional geriatric clinical care to residents of Middle Tennessee and surrounding areas
* Supporting innovative research in basic and translational aspects of aging biology
* Establishing approaches to maintain the health of older individuals  
** POSITION SHIFT & INFORMATION*
* * Monday - Friday
* No call/weekends/holidays

* Location:

Main Campus VUH  
** PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS*
* * Geriatric/internal medicine experience preferred  

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 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 for 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 a specialty scope of practice.
* Facilitates the patient’s transition between and within health care settings.
* The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.  TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
* Health Systems and Policy Management (Advanced):
Demonstrates sufficient fundamental proficiency in behaviors…