Nurse Practitioner​/Physician Assistant - Burn ICU

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Organization: VUH Advanced Practice Provider

Job Summary:

The Advanced Practice Provider (APP) is an integral member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team, delivering expert care in the Critical Care setting. This role involves managing high‑acuity intensive care unit (ICU) patients with unstable conditions who require intensive oversight, frequent rounding, and specialized care. Patients may include those in medical and surgical ICUs with complex needs requiring advanced interventions. The APP is responsible for managing complex conditions while ensuring delivery of safe, high‑quality care.

This role requires advanced medical knowledge, clinical judgment, technical proficiency, professionalism, and excellent interpersonal communication skills. The APP is also accountable for timely and compliant documentation, ongoing professional development, and competency validation. With a strong foundation of medical knowledge, the APP combines evidence‑based practice with clinical expertise to meet the unique needs of critical care patients.

Department Summary The Vanderbilt Burn Center is a 23‑bed Level I burn unit and regional referral center providing comprehensive, specialized care for adult and pediatric burn patients. Caring for more than 600 inpatient admissions and 3,000 outpatient visits annually, the team delivers advanced burn treatment and recovery services through a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach. Physicians, nurses, therapists, psychiatrists, chaplains, and support staff work together to address both the physical and emotional needs of patients and their families.

The Burn Center is also committed to outreach, education, and research, advancing innovative treatments and serving as a trusted resource for healthcare providers and the community.

• Night shifts in the Burn ICU
• 3 shifts per week, rotating weekends and holidays

• TN license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant
• ACNP or AGACNP certified for Nurse Practitioner
• PA Certified for Physician Assistant
• Experience in the surgical/trauma or related ICU preferred
• New Grad PAs must have clinical experience in related ICU

• 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…