Specialty Care Nurse Practitioner - Cardiology; Heart Center

Job Description A bit more about this role:

This position represents an amazing opportunity for an experienced nurse practitioner (APRN) with a big heart and entrepreneurial spirit with extensive clinical experience offering care for cardiology patients. Your primary focus will be delivering world class virtual first cardiology care to our members in the Devoted Medical Heart Center.

In this role you will be working in a next generation virtual heart clinic that dramatically expands access to care for America's most vulnerable seniors. The clinic focuses on providing highly accessible, high quality care for members with general cardiology conditions. As part of the clinic you will also provide dedicated clinical services during part of your clinical time to our heart failure clinic which is a highly tailored, specialty center focused on providing best in class heart failure management including optimizing guideline directed medical therapy, providing health coaching, and managing volume overload.

You will be a key member of our interprofessional team. On a day-to-day basis you will work closely with heart failure RNs who are assigned as clinical guides for each patient in the heart failure clinic. You will also work closely with an interdisciplinary team including physicians, pharmacists, social workers and medical assistants.

You will utilize and help improve our home-grown technology and electronic health information platform to carry out virtual visits.

• Conduct focused and thorough assessments of patients with general cardiology and heart failure needs through virtual consultations including ordering diagnostics as needed, interpreting labs and imaging data, and developing a treatment plan in collaboration with the specialty care clinic team. We expect that 80-90% of your time will be performing virtual visits.

• Formulate accurate diagnoses and develop individualized treatment plans for patients with heart failure and general cardiology clinical conditions, including medication management, volume monitoring and management, and lifestyle modifications.

• Initiate, titrate, and manage guideline-directed medical therapies (GDMT) for a diverse group of members with heart failure.

• Provide proactive management of heart failure and comorbid conditions, and address potential barriers to optimal care to mitigate the risks of heart failure exacerbation and hospitalizations.

• Assess and intervene in weight fluctuations and acute volume overload management of patients who are enrolled in the clinic.

• Assess, diagnose, and manage the range of general cardiology conditions that are suitable for virtual care including stable coronary artery disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, stable atrial arrhythmias, peripheral arterial disease and chronic venous disease. You will be ordering in-home diagnostics including echocardiograms, EKGs, and Holters and working with community cardiology practices for other diagnostics including stress testing and advanced cardiac imaging.

• Collaborate closely with other members of the care team including PCPs, cardiologists and other Devoted team members including pharmacy, clinical nursing, social work, as well as interfacing with family members and caregivers to coordinate holistic care for the member, to ensure continuity of care and deliver a collaborative care plan.

• Serve as the clinical advisor and provide clinical escalation support for the speciality clinic staff and other teams during business hours.

• Utilize our home grown electronic health information system for visits while also providing feedback on how to improve the interface.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date patient medical records, ensuring compliance with relevant legal and ethical guidelines.

• Participate in quality improvement initiatives and ongoing professional development to stay current on best practices and advancements in cardiovascular care.

• Adhere to all relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards, including patient privacy and telehealth regulations.

• You are experienced working on an interprofessional team and enjoy team-based care.

• You have great clinical and non-clinical judgment.

• You are thorough and take the time to address the needs of your patients.

• You are deeply empathetic and humanistic, and want to go the last mile for your patients.

• You enjoy a fast-paced, high-energy, organization. Agility and collaboration are key as we will change and improve quickly.

• You welcome learning and using new technologies that are being developed in parallel. You thrive on knowing your work can help make these technologies better for you and your patients.

• You learn from every experience and are not afraid to fail - that's how you're wired.

• Finally and most importantly, you have a passion for making healthcare better, solving complex problems, and supporting the delivery of healthcare that we would want for our own family members.

• APRN with 5 or more years working…