Advanced Practice Provider - Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute - Heart Failure Titration Clinic - Charlotte, NC

About Atrium Health SHVI:  

Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute is one of the Southeast's largest cardiac and vascular programs providing the highest quality care available to patient with cardiovascular disease throughout North and South Carolina. Sanger employs more than 110 physicians in a network of more than 25 locations to provide the highest quality care available to patient with cardiovascular disease.

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Job Summary:

Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute’s Advanced Heart Failure program is seeking a board-certified Advanced practice provider specifically trained and proficient in providing cardiac services under the direct supervision of Heart Failure/Transplant Cardiologists. The provider in this position will function at the top of their license in a hybrid inpatient and outpatient clinic-based setting in collaboration with a supervising physician and other members of a multidisciplinary team. The position will be split approximately 75% outpatient and 25% inpatient.

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Position Highlights:

• APP will work closely with a multidisciplinary team to provide comprehensive patient care in various outpatient clinical settings and inpatient on a rotational basis 
• Responsible for helping to build and support a heart failure guideline directed medical therapy titration clinic  
• Evaluate new patients, consults and established patients as well as diagnose, treat and manage common conditions in the cardiovascular population. 
• Willingness to provide coverage at SHVI Kenilworth, SHVI Pineville, and SHVI Cabarrus as needed 
• Perform an appropriate history and physical exam, assess, and prepare patient workups and follow core measures for documentation including hospital and 3rd party payer requirements and appropriate patient care. 
• Facilitate and order diagnostic studies including echocardiograms, stress tests, MRIs, CTs, and cardiac catheterization if indicated. 
• Order appropriate laboratory studies and diagnostic procedures. Explained necessity, preparation, and risks and benefits of scheduled diagnostics and therapeutic procedures to the patient and family. 
• Participate in evaluations with the primary supervising physician as directed by State laws. 
• Maintain BLS and ACLS certification as well as all licenses and certifications as mandated by the Hospital Credentialing Committee. 
• Participates in staff meetings, in-services, and continuing education
• Shifts: 1st shift M-F. S/Su coverage from 7am-12pm on a rotational basis. No call. 
• Eligible Performance Incentive Bonus annually. $2500 for and 40h for CME. 
• Teaching opportunities with students and/or APP Fellows 

Position Qualifications: 

• Current prescriptive privileges and DEA license required. BLS and ACLS for Healthcare Provider from AHA required with expiration date greater than 90 days from date of beginning practice.  
• Nurse Practitioner: Master’s Degree or Doctorate of Nursing Practice required. License to practice as a Registered Nurse required. Certification in practice from a nationally recognized certifying body required. ACNP, AGACNP certification preferred based on population served. Must sit for and pass Certified Heart Failure Nurse examination within 2 years of beginning practice  
• Physician Assistant: Graduate from an accredited Physician Assistant program required; Master’s Degree preferred. Certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants preferred. Cardiology experience required. NC/SC Licensure.

About Atrium Health

Atrium Health is a nationally recognized leader in shaping health outcomes through innovative research, education and compassionate patient care. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Atrium Health is an integrated, nonprofit health system with more than 70,000 teammates serving patients at 40 hospitals and more than 1,400 care locations. Atrium Health is part of Advocate Health, the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, which was created from the combination with Advocate Aurora Health. It provides care under the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist name in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina, region, as well as Atrium Health Navicent and Atrium Health Floyd in Georgia and Alabama. Atrium Health is renowned for its top-ranked pediatric, cancer and heart care, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. A recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research, Wake Forest University School of Medicine is the academic core of the enterprise, including Wake Forest Innovations, which is advancing new medical technologies and biomedical discoveries. Atrium Health is also a leading-edge innovator in virtual care and mobile medicine, providing care close to home and in the home. Ranked nationally among U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals in eight pediatric specialties and for rehabilitation, Atrium Health has also received the American Hospital Association’s Quest for Quality Prize and its 2021 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award, as well as the 2020 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Equity Award for its efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care. With a commitment to every community it serves, Atrium Health seeks to improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all, providing $2.46 billion last year in free and uncompensated care and other community benefits.