Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)

   Critical Illness Recovery Hospital    

Select Specialty Hospital - Nashville

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse / APRN

Full-Time Hours

Location: 2000 Hayes Street, Suite 1502

Nashville, TN 37203  

At Select Specialty Hospitals, a division of Select Medical, we care for chronically and critically ill or post-ICU patients who require extended hospital care. Select Medical employs over 48,000 people across the country and provide quality care to approximately 70,000 patients each and every day across our four divisions.

The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) works collaboratively with the multidisciplinary health care team, providing continuity in the care management of chronically critically ill patients. You will improve patient outcomes by planning care that will prevent complications, promptly identifying changes in patient condition, and intervening to stabilize patients. You will act as a resource and mentor to clinical staff.

• Constantly performs clinical obligations. Performs daily clinical rounds on patients and leads multidisciplinary rounds with the pharmacist and other direct caregivers for designated patients. Assesses patients, orders and reviews diagnostic testing information, formulates and alters clinical plans of care as needed including prescribing appropriate treatments and medications within scope of practice.
• Readily recognizes decompensation/changes in condition, and stabilizes patient and/or seeks appropriate consultation.
• Follows evidence-based practice guidelines and prevents complications associated with patient’s psychological and physiological well-being to the extent that is possible.
• Obtains and organizes data to assist attending and consulting physicians with admissions, consultations, progress notes, and discharges as needed, but responsibility for completion of documentation including assessment and plan rests with the physician.
• Demonstrates measurable impact in assisting the multidisciplinary team to provide safe and superior quality care by: increasing patient satisfaction, decreasing return to acute care events, preventing adverse events such as medication errors, falls, and hospital-acquired pressure ulcers. Champions nurse-driven protocols to decrease urinary catheter utilization rates and MDRO infection rates. Drives mechanical ventilation liberation rates.

Minimum requirements:

• Permanent State Registered Nurse License and Certificate of Authority.
• Master’s Degree or Doctorate in Nursing Practice.
• National Nurse Practitioner Certification (Adult, Acute Care or Family) through AANP or ANCC.
• BLS and ACLS certifications.
• Previous experience working in a hospital setting.
• Knowledge and skills related to the care of adolescent patients through patients in an advanced age.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

Select Medical strives to provide our employees with a solid work-life balance, as we understand that happy employees have both fulfilling careers and meaningful lives beyond our doors.

• Work jointly with an interdisciplinary team, consisting of registered nurses, physical and occupational therapists, speech language pathologists and physicians to assist patients in regaining their independence.
• Develop collaborative relationships with patients and their families.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Extended Illness Days (EID).
• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance; Life insurance; Prescription coverage.
• A 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Short and Long Term Disability.
• Personal and Family Medical Leave.

We’d love for you to join the team!

Select Medical is committed to having a workforce that reflects diversity at all levels and is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment, and employees are treated during employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.