Full Job Description
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.
Job Description
- Manage pre and post heart transplant patients, including assessments, diagnostic review, and treatment planning.
- Provide daily inpatient care, including hemodynamic management, immunosuppression oversight, and coordination of multidisciplinary rounds.
- Conduct outpatient follow ups, adjust therapy plans, review labs/imaging, and support long term transplant outcomes.
- Monitor patients closely for transplant related complications including rejection, infection, malignancies.
- Management of chronic medical illnesses common among the transplant recipient (diabetes, HTN, CKD)
- Educate patients/families on transplant processes, medications, and complication awareness.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary team including but not limited to surgeons, cardiologists, pharmacists, transplant coordinators, and social workers.
- Participate in quality initiatives, regulatory compliance, and program development.
Qualifications
- Acute Care Nurse Practitoner or Physician Assistant with active state licensure and national certification.
- BLS/ACLS required; DEA as applicable.
- Experience in cardiology, cardiac ICU, advanced heart failure, transplant, or critical care strongly preferred.
- Strong clinical judgment, communication skills, and ability to work in a fast paced, multidisciplinary environment.
Schedule & Environment
- Mix of inpatient and outpatient clinical duties.
- May include call or weekend rotation based on program needs.
Additional Information
Pay Range: $54.34-$77.08
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