CharlesShoalmireNP

Summary

• Main clinic responsibility is management of patients with heart failure to optimize ejection fraction, improve quality of life, and reduce hospitalizations. This includes frequent patient visits with close monitoring of volume status while optimizing medication regimen based on guideline directed medical therapy. Other clinic responsibilities include overseeing stress tests; providing care to physicians’ patients when they are occupied with hospital duties; pacemaker interrogation and programming; completing peer to peer interactions with insurance companies for prior authorization of tests, therapies, and medications.