Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Cardiology

Position Summary

The Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant will join a collaborative outpatient cardiology team focused on providing exceptional care to adult general cardiology patients at the CAM at Barnes Jewish Hospital. Working alongside physicians, advanced practice providers, and registered nurses, the APP will primarily manage follow-up visits for established patients, while occasionally seeing appropriately triaged new patients. This role helps improve patient access by allowing physicians to focus on additional new patient appointments.

• 8-9 hour workdays.
• Seven half-day clinic sessions per week.
• Onsite clinic responsibilities with flexibility to complete administrative work remotely.

This position offers the opportunity to build long-term patient relationships while delivering high-quality cardiovascular care in a supportive, team-based environment.

• Provides direct patient care to include obtaining patient history, performing patient assessment via observation, interview and examination; orders, performs and interprets diagnostic studies; performs preventative health assessments, screenings, immunizations and care; provides direct treatment and management of acute and chronic disease conditions; develops and implements patient-centered plan of care in collaboration with physicians, patients, consultants, nurses, ancillary care providers and others as appropriate to the patient’s condition.
• May bill for services covered by collaborative practice agreement.
• Provides counseling and education of patients and their families/caregivers concerning disease management, complication prevention, disease prevention, and quality of life improvement measures, and outcome management activities.
• Monitors/ensures accuracy of patient medical records; maintain all required reports, records, statistics, etc.
• Maintains a safe, comfortable and therapeutic environment for patients/families in accordance with established clinic/hospital standards.
• Manages health conditions via prescriptive authority or referral