Interventional/Structural Heart APP - Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute Concord, NC - Atrium Health

Overview

If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. We invite Advance Practice Providers to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds, and progressive visionaries together.

Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute’s Interventional and Structural Heart Program is seeking a Full-time advanced practice provider (APP) to join our growing team at Atrium Health Cabarrus. 

• This position is occupied by board certified physician assistants and/or acute care nurse practitioners trained and proficient in providing cardiac services. 
• The APP in this position will function at the top of their license in the inpatient hospital and outpatient clinic-based setting in collaboration with a supervising physician and other members of a multidisciplinary team. 
• This role will be an integral component of a high functioning multidisciplinary team of providers including cardiology APPs, interventional cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons, and imaging cardiologists. 
• The APP is responsible for inpatient daily rounds, consultations, admissions, and discharges, along with clinic appointments. 
• The APP is competent inpatient examinations, medication management, and ordering laboratory/radiologic testing and interpretation of results, including ECGs. 

Position Responsibilities

• This is a medical cardiology role. APP is not expected to perform procedures but will manage patients pre and post procedurally. Cabarrus is a STEMI center and as a part of the Structural Heart Program procedures such as TAVRs, PFO closures, and LAA closures are performed. 
• APP is expected to perform admission, rounding, consult and discharge notes on patients in the inpatient and ED setting, along with same day procedure setting. APP is also expected to adequately perform clinic visits in the outpatient setting. 
• Full time day shift, 40-hour work week, 4 x 10-hour shifts.      No call or night shift.
• Setting that they will be working – Hybrid (inpatient/outpatient).  APP is expected to see 14 outpatients on a full day of clinic.
• Opportunity to participate in committees, teaching – Opportunities to participate in committees, especially those around improving care for individual service line. APP is expected to participate in education of APP fellows, MD students, residents, or in onboarding of new APPs. 
• Interventional Team – There are currently 3 APPs and 4 MDs on the team at Cabarrus. The applicant is expected to learn to cross cover at CMC as part of the broader Interventional program, totaling 14 APPs and 14 MDs. 
• Work independently and work well with a team. He or she will be responsible for the management of patients undergoing catheter-based interventions for coronary artery disease and valvular heart disease, along with providing general cardiology care and heart failure management in an inpatient and outpatient setting. 

Position Requirements:

• Graduation from an accredited NP or PA program. Current license to practice as a NP or PA in North Carolina. Current prescriptive privileges and DEA license required. BLS/ACLS Certified.
• Nurse practitioners with Master’s degree of Doctorate of Nursing Practice. ACNP, AGACNP required based on population served. 
• Nurse practitioners are required to have Acute Care Certification
• Physician Assistants with certification from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants required.

Ideal Candidate Qualities:

• 1+ years of experience as a provider required; experience in Cardiology
• Highly motivated with superb communication and organizational skills with a commitment to provide quality care to the patients we serve in the Greater Charlotte community

About the Practice/Facility

Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute is one of the Southeast's largest cardiac and vascular programs providing the highest quality care available to patients with cardiovascular disease throughout North and South Carolina. Sanger employs over 110 physicians and 140 APPs in a network of over 25 locations to provide the highest quality care available to patients with cardiovascular disease. Sanger has more than 50 years of experience in providing comprehensive acute and chronic cardiovascular services, including the region's only heart transplant center and pediatric heart surgery program.

Atrium Health Cabarrus is a regional 457-bed, not-for-profit hospital in Concord, NC. More than 4,200 hospital employees provide services through an extensive inpatient and outpatient network, including Jeff Gordon Children's Hospital, Hayes Family Center and Batte Cancer Center, part of Atrium Health’s Levine Cancer Institute.