Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Burn ICU

Vanderbilt Health is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) to join the Burn Center ICU, a 23-bed Level I burn unit and regional referral center. This role is integral to a multidisciplinary healthcare team delivering expert care to high-acuity intensive care patients with unstable conditions requiring intensive oversight, frequent rounding, and specialized interventions. The Burn Center cares for more than 600 inpatient admissions and 3,000 outpatient visits annually, providing comprehensive specialized care for adult and pediatric burn patients through a collaborative approach involving physicians, nurses, therapists, psychiatrists, chaplains, and support staff.

Responsibilities

• Obtain and document comprehensive health histories and perform system-focused or symptom-specific physical examinations
• Document complete assessments and plans of care
• Provide healthcare services for primary, acute, and complex care of patients in collaboration with the healthcare team
• Manage patients' overall care and identify expected outcomes for diagnoses
• Order, perform, interpret, and collect data using appropriate assessment techniques and diagnostic procedures
• Form differential diagnoses and treat acute and chronic conditions
• Prescribe therapeutic interventions including pharmacologic, non-pharmacologic, and surgical treatments to achieve expected outcomes
• Utilize evidence-based, approved practice protocols in planning and implementing care
• Initiate appropriate referrals and consultations
• Provide specialty-specific consultation services within scope of practice
• Facilitate patient transitions between and within healthcare settings, including admitting, transferring, and discharging patients
• Maintain timely and compliant documentation
• Participate in ongoing professional development and competency validation

Schedule

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

Required Qualifications

• Active Tennessee license to practice as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
• ACNP (Acute Care Nurse Practitioner) or AGACNP (Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner) certification for Nurse Practitioners
• PA Certification for Physician Assistants
• Active Tennessee Registered Nurse license
• Master's degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in surgical, trauma, or related ICU settings
• New graduate PAs must have clinical experience in a related ICU

Benefits

• 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
• Short and long-term disability
• Subsidized backup childcare
• Inpatient nursing supplemental pay program