Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Kidney Transplant (Inpatient)

Vanderbilt Health is seeking an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) to join the Abdominal Transplant team as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant specializing in kidney transplant inpatient care. You will be a key member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team, collaborating with physicians and other care providers to manage hospitalized transplant patients in an acute care setting. Vanderbilt's Transplant Center is the nation's largest by volume, performing 960 solid organ transplants in 2025, and is one of the oldest and largest kidney transplant programs in the country.

Clinical Setting

You will work in the inpatient acute care setting at Vanderbilt Health, which operates eight hospitals and over 180 clinics across the Mid-South region. The Abdominal Transplant team provides specialized care to kidney transplant patients, including high-risk patients who may not be candidates for transplantation at other centers. The program also performs dual-organ transplants for patients with liver-kidney or heart-kidney dysfunction.

Responsibilities

• Obtain and document comprehensive health histories and perform complete, system-focused, or symptom-specific physical examinations
• Develop assessments and plans of care in collaboration with the healthcare team
• Provide primary, acute, and complex care management for transplant patients
• Order, perform, interpret, and collect diagnostic 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
• 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 professional development and competency validation

Required Qualifications

• Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP), Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (ACNP), or Physician Assistant (PA) credential
• Active Tennessee Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant license
• Master's degree
• Relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior Advanced Practice Provider experience

Schedule

• Full-time position
• Day shift: 4 ten-hour shifts per week
• Rotating weekend requirement

Benefits

Vanderbilt Health offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Affordable high-quality health plan options
• Dental and/or vision plans
• 403(b) retirement plan
• Flexible paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Subsidized backup childcare
• Inpatient nursing supplemental pay program