600+ Nursing & Healthcare Jobs in Nashville, TN

The clearest observed local pay anchor is BLS: Nashville healthcare practitioners and technical occupations had a mean hourly wage of $51.66 in May 2025, with annual pay at $83,100 at the median, $64,060 at the 25th percentile, $106,390 at the 75th, and $169,340 at the 90th. More current directional signals are narrower because they come from posted openings rather than filled jobs: local postings center on about $80k to $95k or about $42 to $47 / hour, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows Tennessee mean offered salary on new openings around $97,912 in September 2026 (n=4,259).

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 287 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $82,500 at the 25th percentile, $89,353 at the median and $110,500 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of October 15, 2026

Senior roles | Entry level | Remote | Posted this week

Live from the Callings.ai index of over 13 million postings, refreshed hourly and re-checked here nightly. Roles that close are dropped at the next refresh.

Showing 30 of 250+ openings.

Open all in AI Job Search

What our analysts see this month

Favorable market | next 3-6 months

This is a favorable market for Healthcare Practitioners in Nashville over the next 3-6 months. Nashville's metro unemployment was 3.1% in August 2026, while local Education and Health Services employment reached 186.7 thousand and grew 2.3575% year over year, faster than total metro nonfarm growth of 0.6541%. Healthcare practitioners also make up a larger share of Nashville employment than nationally, 6.8% versus 6.3%, which reinforces how central this field is to the local economy. Still, the easy path is not broad-based: most roles are on-site, licensing remains the gatekeeper, and the best odds go to candidates who can step into patient-facing work quickly.

Best positioned: Licensed clinicians who can show recent patient-facing experience, strong documentation, and current BLS/CPR/ACLS credentials have the best odds, especially with hospital-centered employers such as Vanderbilt and Ascension.

Main caution: Do not confuse a healthy posting volume with easy entry: over the last 90 days the market showed more than 1,200 postings, but about 90% were on-site and posted pay clusters in mid-range bands that mix lower- and higher-paid specialties.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 608 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Vanderbilt: 75 open roles
2. Results PT: 53 open roles
3. Upstream Rehabilitation Inc.: 53 open roles
4. Ascension: 32 open roles
5. Medasource: 20 open roles
6. HCA Healthcare: 15 open roles
7. Ascension: 13 open roles
8. Skilled Wound Care: 13 open roles
9. HighPoint Health System: 11 open roles
10. TriStar Hendersonville Medical Center: 11 open roles

Where the openings are

• Nashville: 382
• Franklin: 46
• Hendersonville: 32
• Gallatin: 22
• Smyrna: 22
• Brentwood: 21
• Springfield: 13
• Mount Juliet: 10

Work arrangement

on-site 537 (90%), remote 44 (7%), hybrid 17 (3%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated in care-delivery settings, not in remote-first employers. In the local posting mix, hospitals and health care account for about 40% of openings, another healthcare category accounts for about 40%, and smaller shares sit in hospitals & health clinics, health care services & hospitals, and mental health care at about 5% each. That lines up with metro labor data: Nashville had 186.7 thousand jobs in Education and Health Services in August 2026, up 2.3575% year over year. A second concentration point is scale. Over the last 90 days, the market showed more than 1,200 postings across more than 250 companies, but the most consistently active named employers were Vanderbilt with more than 125 postings and Ascension with more than 50. Even so, hiring is fragmented rather than dominated by a single employer, which helps candidates who can target multiple systems and clinics instead of waiting on one brand.

• Hospital systems and major care networks (high): This is the core of the market, with hospitals and health care making up about 40% of the posting mix and named demand led by Vanderbilt and Ascension.
• General healthcare and clinic employers (high): A second large block sits in broader healthcare employers at about 40% of postings, which suggests real room for ambulatory, outpatient, and multisite clinic searches beyond the biggest hospital brands.
• Mental health and niche specialty settings (moderate): Mental health care represents about 5% of the observed mix, so the opportunity is real but narrower and usually rewards candidates with direct specialty alignment.

Where to focus: Start with hospital systems and large clinic employers, then widen into mental health and specialty settings if you can show directly transferable patient-care and documentation experience.

Roles worth searching next

• Medical Assistant: This is a practical bridge for candidates who want patient-facing work while building toward a higher-license clinical path.
• Patient Care Coordinator / Care Navigator: This uses patient education, care planning, and documentation strengths that show up repeatedly in local postings.
• Clinical Documentation Specialist: This is a strong pivot for clinicians whose charting, compliance, and documentation accuracy are stronger than their desire for ongoing bedside work.
• Clinical Informatics Analyst: This is the cleanest pivot for clinicians who can pair care experience with digital-health, AI, and interoperability skills such as FHIR R4 and HL7 v2.

What postings ask for

• Registered nurse licensure (table_stakes | immediate): RN licensure appears among the most commonly named credentials in local postings, and licensure is still the first hard filter for many employers. Who: RNs, nurse candidates awaiting a move into practitioner-track roles, and career switchers with nursing backgrounds.
• BLS Provider (table_stakes | immediate): BLS shows up as the most common named credential in local postings, which makes it a basic readiness signal rather than a bonus. Who: Nearly all patient-facing clinician candidates.
• CPR certification (table_stakes | immediate): CPR certification appears repeatedly in local postings and is one of the easiest ways to avoid being screened out for bedside or clinic roles. Who: Entry-level and re-entry candidates especially.
• ACLS (differentiator | near-term): ACLS is not universal, but it appears often enough in local postings to strengthen candidacy for higher-acuity settings. Who: Candidates targeting hospitals, urgent care, telemetry, or procedural environments.
• Clinical documentation (differentiator | immediate): Clinical documentation is one of the most requested skills in local postings, so employers want candidates who can chart cleanly, accurately, and fast. Who: All clinician types, especially anyone who has worked across multiple EHR workflows.
• Patient assessment and patient education (table_stakes | immediate): Patient assessment and patient education both appear among the most-requested local skills, which means employers are signaling for practice-ready, patient-facing capability rather than theory alone. Who: Entry-level clinicians, generalists, and switchers who need to prove bedside or clinic readiness.

Questions about this market

What do Healthcare Practitioners roles pay in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

The clearest observed local pay anchor is BLS: Nashville healthcare practitioners and technical occupations had a mean hourly wage of $51.66 in May 2025, with annual pay at $83,100 at the median, $64,060 at the 25th percentile, $106,390 at the 75th, and $169,340 at the 90th. More current directional signals are narrower because they come from posted openings rather than filled jobs: local postings center on about $80k to $95k or about $42 to $47 / hour, while Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows Tennessee mean offered salary on new openings around $97,912 in September 2026 (n=4,259). This is a good-paying category relative to most work, but Nashville is not obviously paying a large local premium over the nation: the metro mean hourly wage was $51.66 versus $52.26 nationally for the same broad occupational group.

Where is demand for Healthcare Practitioners roles in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated in care-delivery settings, not in remote-first employers. In the local posting mix, hospitals and health care account for about 40% of openings, another healthcare category accounts for about 40%, and smaller shares sit in hospitals & health clinics, health care services & hospitals, and mental health care at about 5% each. That lines up with metro labor data: Nashville had 186.7 thousand jobs in Education and Health Services in August 2026, up 2.3575% year over year. A second concentration point is scale. Over the last 90 days, the market showed more than 1,200 postings across more than 250 companies, but the most consistently active named employers were Vanderbilt with more than 125 postings and Ascension with more than 50. Even so, hiring is fragmented rather than dominated by a single employer, which helps candidates who can target multiple systems and clinics instead of waiting on one brand.

Which employers are hiring the most Healthcare Practitioners talent in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

Recent postings show the most activity from Vanderbilt (125 postings), Ascension (50 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Healthcare Practitioners roles in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 5% hybrid, with 90% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

Openings come from the Callings.ai live index of over 13 million jobs, refreshed hourly. This page searches postings from the last 30 days; run the search yourself to filter by anything else in plain language.

Explore related openings

Healthcare Practitioners jobs in other metros

• Salt Lake City-Murray, UT
• Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN
• Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX
• San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA
• Raleigh-Cary, NC
• Columbus, OH
• New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
• Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Other roles in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN

• Hospitality, Food Service & Travel
• Software, IT & Cybersecurity
• Media, Journalism & Entertainment
• Management, Product & Project
• Personal Care & Fitness
• Marketing, Communications & Content
• Education & Training
• Healthcare Support & Healthcare Administration

Browse all job openings | Browse jobs by title and state | Browse all job market reports