Overview If it's possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. We invite experienced APPs to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds and progressive visionaries together in our Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute team in Pineville, NC.
Job Summary
- This is a medical cardiology role. The APP is expected to manage patients periprocedurally but does not perform procedures.
- Pineville is a STEMI Center. APP is expected to manage primarily interventional patients presenting with ACS, although is expected to be proficient in general cardiology and pulmonary embolism management.
- Schedule consists of four 10-hour shifts per week rotating between inpatient and outpatient care. No night or call.
- In the outpatient setting the APP is expected to independently see 14 patients in a 10-hour shift.
- Travel to other sites may be required.
Essential Functions
- Effective communication with a team-based style approach and a strong independent work ethic.
- The APP in this setting will function at the top of their license in the hospital and clinic with a supervising MD and other members of a multidisciplinary team.
- In the inpatient setting the APP is expected to perform admission, rounding, consult and discharge notes on patients.
- Manage acute problems that arise including changes in patient status, nursing calls, patient calls, codes and RRTs for SHVI patients.
- Facilitate and order diagnostic studies as indicated including ECGs, Echocardiogram, Stress test, and cardiac catheterization.
- Opportunities to participate in committees, especially those around improving care for individual service line.
- APP is expected to participate in education of APP fellows, MD students, residents, or in onboarding of new APPs.
- Attend and participate in Atrium Health and Sanger required meetings, education, development sessions.
Position Qualifications
- 1+ years of experience as a provider required; Cardiology experience preferred.
- Nurse Practitioner: Masters Degree or Doctorate of Nursing Practice required. License to practice as RN required. Certification in practice from a nationally recognized certifying body required. ACNP or AGACNP is required based on population served.
- 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.
- ACLS and BLS certifications.
About SHVI:
Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute is one of the Southeast's largest cardiac and vascular programs providing the highest quality care available to patients with cardiovascular disease throughout North and South Carolina. SHVI employs over 100 APPs and 100 MDs in a network of over 25 locations to provide the highest quality care available to patients with cardiovascular disease throughout North and South Carolina. SHVI has more than 50 years of experience in providing world-class, comprehensive acute and chronic cardiovascular services including the region's only heart transplant center and pediatric heart surgery program.
About Pineville
- The SHVI Pineville campus is a 235-bed tertiary care center which supports South Charlotte and surrounding communities. Pineville is 1 of 3 STEMI centers with a growing Cardiac ICU presence.
- There are 4 physicians and 2 APPs currently on the Pineville team as a broader group of 15 MDs and 11 APPs on the Interventional Team.
- Subspecialties within SHVI at Pineville include General Cardiology, Interventional, Electrophysiology, Advanced Heart Failure, Vascular, and CT Surgery.
Physical Requirements
- Work requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, bending, stooping, pushing and pulling. - Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies. Must speak English fluently and in understandable terms. Must possess intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch, and finger dexterity. Must have the ability to react and perform in stressful situations
When you join Atrium Health, you will be welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. Practice where your voice is valued, your passion for advancing medicine is rewarded, and you get the resources and support you need to thrive personally and professionally. In our nationally-renowned integrated health system, you can work alongside the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine, elevate hope and advance healing—for all.
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