Advanced Practice Provider/Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant: Electrophysiology
- Alexandria, VA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Affordable Medical, Dental and Vision plans
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Paid Short-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program for Mental and Physical well-being
- Paid Vacation upon eligibility
- Paid Sick Leave
- CME allowance
- Annual Merit-Based increases
- Employee Referral Bonuses
- Employee Discount Programs
- Quarterly Employee Appreciation: Events to include therapy dogs, raffles, and other fun events.
- Obtains medical history and perform physical examinations
- Performs clinical assessments and develop treatment plan
- Initiates, monitors, and adjust medications in accordance with the EP APP/APP Practice Agreement
- Manages patients with complex cardiovascular diseases
- Orders and evaluate laboratory, diagnostic, and radiographic tests
- Completes medical records and billing at the end of each day
- Performs interrogation and appropriate reprogramming of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices (CIED)
- Coordinates care with rounding EP physician or office-based EP physician
- Provides education to patients and their family members
- Provides pre and post procedural education for patients scheduled for electro physiologic procedures
- Coordinates care between other physicians, nursing staff, and interdisciplinary providers
- Makes appropriate referrals to other interdisciplinary providers
- Refers to appropriate Virginia Heart Programs: Heart Failure Program, Research Program, Sleep Program
- Acts as liaison for the physician in communicating with patients and family members
- May need to see general cardiology patients in the office and assist with weekend hospital rounding responsibilities as per practice needs.
- Hospital Specific: Performs daily hospital rounds; coordinate daily rounding with the EP physicians between scheduled procedures. Serve as the point of contact for in hospital EP issues. Maintain communication with the in-hospital EP physicians. Maintain hospital list, billing, and send in appropriate follow-up requests. Coordinate scheduling of inpatient EP procedures, AAD initiation and titration with both EP scheduling and EP physician team. Provide discharge education and outpatient follow up orders and practice needs
- Office Specific: Maintains own schedule of approximately 15 patients in a day. An EP Physician is available on site for consultation and collaboration as needed. Types of patient visits: Pre and post procedure visits, antiarrhythmic drug monitoring visits, Urgent patient symptom calls, interrogation of CIED’s, interpretation of remote CIED transmissions, urgent add-ons/walk-ins, subcutaneous monitor consults, and all other routine Electrophysiology follow-ups. Office EP APP does not see new patients outside of subcutaneous monitor consults.
- Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program or Physician Associate Program (Master’s level of preparation preferred)
- NP Credentialed by the ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center). PA must be certified by NCCPA (National Commission on Certification of Physician Associates)
- BLS/CPR and ACLS certified
- Licensed in State of Virginia
- Experience in Electrophysiology preferred. Experience in Cardiology recommended– preferably as an APP
- International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE) Certified Cardiac Device Specialist (CCDS) – recommended.
- IBHRE Certified Electrophysiology Specialist (CEPS) – recommended.
- Attend CME in accordance with EP APP/APP manual.