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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

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