Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant II – Heart Failure & Transplant

The Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant performs the following tasks in any authorized setting (clinics, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, nursing homes, or patient’s home).

• Obtaining patient history
• Performing physical examinations
• Ordering and performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
• Formulating a diagnostic impression
• Developing and implementing a treatment plan
• Monitoring effectiveness of therapeutic interventions
• Offering counseling and education to meet patient needs
• Making appropriate referrals
• Prescribing and dispensing prescription medication
• Demonstrates ability to assess data reflective of patient’s status and appropriately interprets information relative to patient’s age-specific needs