Cardiology Nurse Practitioner

At Jefferson Health, we make caring for your heart health easy. You will be a part of a compassionate team, providing great heart and vascular care, in the largest cardiac network in the region. We give patients access to a comprehensive network that provides care for all vascular and cardiac conditions, including:

• Heart Failure
• Arrhythmias
• Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
• Coronary Artery Disease
• Congenital Heart Disease
• Aortic Aneurysms

Job/Practice Description

• Busy Cardiology Outpatient Practice

• Patient population includes General Cardiac Patients
• M-F 8am-5pm
• Nurse Practitioner / Physician Assistant

Assessment & Management

• Performs complete history & physicals and documents in the medical record.

• Orders and collects data using appropriate assessment techniques, relevant supporting diagnostic information and diagnostic procedures where indicated.

• The APP may serve as the first responder for both nursing and house staff in the event of patient status changes, orders, and in situations requiring procedural and resuscitative interventions.

• Assesses for risks associated with the care of the acute and complex chronically ill patient including: medication side effects, immobility, impaired nutrition, fluid and electrolyte imbalance, immunocompetence, invasive interventions and diagnostic procedures.

Diagnosis

• Collaborates with interdisciplinary health care team in making diagnoses of acute and complex chronic conditions.

• Manages diagnostic tests through ordering, interpretation, performance, and supervision.

• Formulates differential diagnoses by priority.

• Diagnoses complications and orders appropriate interventions

Formulates Plan of Care

• Identifies expected outcomes from diagnosis, and formulates and documents a plan of care to address complex acute and chronic health care needs.

• Utilizes evidenced based practice guidelines and protocols in an individualized, dynamic plan of care that can be applied across the continuum.

• Implements and modifies plan of care.

• Prescribes diagnostic strategies and therapeutic interventions.

• May perform advanced procedures consistent with privileges and competency validation.

Documentation

• Documents/dictates key components of patient's progress via daily progress note, transfer, and discharge summary, and or clinic note where applicable. (h&p, daily progress notes, plan of care, problem lists, procedure notes, acute event note, discharge summaries, in medical record per specific patient unit or service, death summary)

• Documentation is timely, meets acute care compliance standards and captures patient acuity.

Communication and Collaboration

• Maintains ongoing communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team.

• Facilitates and communicates with patient, family and staff to promote continuity of care across the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care.

Professional Practice

• Demonstrates Professional Practice behaviors including: preceptor/mentoring, education and instruction of graduate students.

• Seeks opportunities for active engagement in research and the analysis of evidenced based practice.

• Actively participates in Advance Practice Grand Rounds and specialty specific meetings.

• Maintains CEUs, and membership in a professional organization.

Qualifications Master s Degree National Board Certification as a Primary/Family Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant BLS certification