Nurse Practitioner - Cardiology

Job Requirements

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 (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Seeking a Nurse practitioner with cardiology experience preferably in the heart failure space to manage clients in an outpatient virtual transition of care heart failure clinic. Patients will be virtually managed for 30 to 45 days in collaboration with their outpatient primary care and cardiology providers. There will be a heavy emphasis on the management of volume status, and the titration of guideline directed medical therapy.

The ability to work with an interdisciplinary team and communicate patients' needs will be paramount.

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 .

Seeking a Nurse practitioner with cardiology experience preferably in the heart failure space to manage clients in an outpatient virtual transition of care heart failure clinic. Patients will be virtually managed for 30 to 45 days in collaboration with their outpatient primary care and cardiology providers. There will be a heavy emphasis on the management of volume status, and the titration of guideline directed medical therapy.

The ability to work with an interdisciplinary team and communicate patients' needs will be paramount.

• Clinical Care
• Virtually perform comprehensive history and focused physical examinations for patients with acute and chronic heart failure.
• Diagnose, evaluate, and manage heart failure in accordance with current clinical guidelines (e.g., ACC/AHA, HFSA).
• Initiate, titrate, and monitor guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT), including beta-blockers, ACEi/ARB/ARNI, SGLT2 inhibitors, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA), vasodilators, and other evidence-based therapies.
• Order and interpret diagnostic tests including laboratory studies, ECGs, echocardiograms, and imaging as clinically indicated.
• Assess and manage volume overload using appropriate diuretic strategies including loop diuretics,…