Nurse Practitioner​/Physician Assistant - General Cardiology - Columbia

Position Details

Position:
Advanced Practice Provider (APP)

Location:

Columbia, TN

Hours:

Monday through Friday

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.

• Obtains and documents a health history; performs and documents complete, system‑focused, or symptom‑specific physical examination, assessment and plan of care.
• 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.

• Health Systems and Policy Management (Advanced): demonstrates proficiency in behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, and responsible attitude toward patients, profession and society.
• Patient and Family Centered Care (Advanced): demonstrates compassionate care that is appropriate and effective for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, treatment of disease and care at the end of life.
• Clinical Knowledge and Practice (Advanced): demonstrates established and evolving biomedical, clinical and social sciences knowledge and application to patient care and education. Demonstrates commitment to maintaining current evidence‑based knowledge through continuous learning.
• Practice‑Based Scholarly Inquiry and Integration (Advanced): uses scientific evidence to investigate, evaluate and improve patient care practices.
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills (Advanced): demonstrates skills enabling professional relationships with patients, families, and healthcare teams.
• Professionalism (Advanced): demonstrates ethical practice and responsibility toward patients, profession and society; participates in committees and professional organizations.

• Executes responsibilities understanding impact on other areas.
• Analyzes moderately complex problems; applies technical experience and judgment.
• Provides informal guidance and support to team members.
• Engages in quality improvement and ensures continuous improvement.
• Fulfills safety and regulatory requirements and performs routine safety checks.
• Manages resources effectively, demonstrates accountability, stewardship, data‑driven decisions.
• Adapts to change, generates new ideas, applies technology, promotes innovation.

• Licenses:
  Licensed Nurse Practitioner (Tennessee), Physician Assistant (Tennessee), or Registered Nurse (Tennessee).
• Experience:
  
  Relevant work experience; less than 1 year.
• Education:
  
  Master’s degree.

Vanderbilt Health is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive. We are an equal‑opportunity employer. EOE/Vets/Disabled.