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A higher degree of healthcare.

All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored.

Join our award-winning team at UW Medical Center - Montlake. Among the top medical centers in the United States as rated by U.S. News & World Report 2019-2020 "America's Best Hospitals", UW Medical Center - Montlake prides itself on compassionate patient care as well as its pioneering medical advances. UW Medical Center - Montlake has again earned U.S. News & World Report’s No. 1 hospital ranking in Washington State and in the Seattle metropolitan area. It is the seventh consecutive year that UW Medical Center - Montlake has achieved both distinctions.

Excellence. Exploration. Education. Become part of our team, and join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.

UW Medical Center – Montlake Heart Institute has an outstanding opportunity for an Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) to join our Cardiac Transplant team. The APPs ensure that heart transplant recipients are treated with appropriate immunosuppressive and anti-infective therapies, do not have signs and symptoms of infection, rejection, and are optimally medically managed to prevent complications and hospitalizations. The APPs optimize goal directed medical heart failure therapies in patients with AHF including evaluating and treating patients with acute decompensated heart failure, clinically relevant atrial or ventricular arrhythmias and maintenance of chronic advanced medical heart failure therapies.

POSITION DETAILS
Full-time (100% FTE), Outpatient Ambulatory APP, Day Shift 40 hrs/week

RESPONSIBILITIES

Collaborate with an inter-professional team including APPs, cardiologists, nurses, medical assistants (MAs) and clinic schedulers to provide high quality and safe, patient- and family-centered care in a premier institution

Independently and collaboratively provide comprehensive care to 4-6 advanced heart failure or heart transplant patients in each of eight 4-hour blocks weekly (based on 1.0 FTE) in the outpatient setting

Diagnose, treat and manage acute and chronic heart failure, heart transplant, and heart failure-related illness

Order and interpret pertinent laboratory and diagnostic imaging in a timely manner

Prescribe and titrate diagnostic, pharmacologic and therapeutic interventions, including immunosuppressive medications

Communicate in a professional, timely and respectful manner with all members of the health care team whether through verbal, email or secure text communication

Educate team members including physicians, nurses, MAs, patients and families on AHF therapy and heart transplant needs and management

Document per Heart Institute Standards via EPIC

Participate in quality improvement projects and process improvement activities

Participate in and support the Division of Cardiology’s education, research and quality initiatives

Provide education and mentorship to fellow team members, staff, nurses and students alike

Attend weekly Cardiology Grand Rounds, clinical case conferences and quarterly faculty meetings

Follow University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) Professional Behavior Policy and Procedures

Required Qualifications:

Graduate Degree from and accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Program, or foreign equivalent

Current and valid state Registered Nurse and Advanced Practice Nursing Licensure for ARNP or Physician Assistant licensure for PA-C

Nationally certified ARNP/PA with DEA

Highly reliable, flexible provider with proven excellence working in an interdisciplinary collaborative team environment

Effective interpersonal skills, leadership skills, and clinical expertise in the care of cardiology patients

Able to communicate effectively in English, both verbal and written

Basic computer knowledge and command of basic personal computer skills

Ideal Qualifications:

Training and experience in cardiology including heart failure, cardiac transplant

ACLS Certification

Well versed in EPIC

Applicants considered for this position will be required to disclose if they are the subject of any substantiated findings or current investigations related to sexual misconduct at their current employment and past employment. Disclosure is required under Washington state law.