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Job Title

Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA): Cardiology I

Location

Weston

Facility

Florida Weston Hospital

Department

Cardiology-Weston Hospital

Job Code

001134

Shift

Days

Schedule

8:00am-5:00pm

Job Summary

Job Details

🏥 Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner – Cardiology
📍 Cleveland Clinic – Weston, FL
🕒 Full-Time | Monday–Friday

Cleveland Clinic Florida is seeking a dedicated and motivated Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to join our Cardiology team at Weston. This role offers the opportunity to work within a nationally recognized healthcare system that values clinical excellence, collaboration, and work-life balance.

APRN: Nationally certified licensed healthcare provider who provides primary and/or specialty nursing and/or medical care in a variety of healthcare settings. Functions in collaboration with a physician according to an APRN protocol and specialty certification. Practice emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention and the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic health problems.

PA: Nationally certified licensed healthcare provider who provides primary and/or specialty medical care (the practice of medicine) in a variety of healthcare settings. Functions within the collaboration agreement of a Physician, as per regulatory requirements. Performs complete histories and physicals on patients of all ages to establish and record patient's current health status and to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan to provide continuing medical care, including daily examinations, writing orders, chart notes, discharging patients and completing discharge summaries. This medical care may be in a variety of clinical settings. PAs in the Hospital care role provide outpatient and/or hospital-based care to patients (more than 50% of their time) with complex, acute, and chronic health conditions. Outpatient/Hospital care PAs practice in a setting that requires the performance of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions to manage acute and chronic health problems.

Must have the ability to work with multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities include TAVR, TMVR, MitraClip, TriClip, Evoque, WATCHMAN, Amulet, Lariat and all structural heart patient care coordination.

MAJOR AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

· Receive and review patient referrals for appropriateness, reviewing with an attending provider as needed

· Establish contact with patient/family. Explain process and work-up.

· Perform functional assessments and frailty testing

· Have all testing available for review by cardiologist and CTS at clinic visit

· Participate in development of treatment plan

· Patient and family education

· Facilitate direct contact between cardiologist and referring physician regarding treatment plan

· Order any additional testing i.e. cath, TEE, CT

· Upload required data to appropriate vendor and maintain communication with device representatives

· Participates in follow-up visits and coordinates further follow-up per registry requirement.

· Attends weekly valve conference

· Be available to patients and families through all stages of care.

· Establish strong working relationship with surgeons, interventionalist, advanced practice providers, and device representatives

· Flexibility to adapt to new technologies and procedures as they evolve: TAVR, TMVR, MitraClip, TriClip, Evoque, WATCHMAN, Amulet, Lariat etc.

Backup responsibilities:

· Obtain all outside imaging, scheduling screening procedures and structural heart clinic visit

· Assist patient/family with navigation of testing schedule

· Facilitate scheduling and authorization of structural heart procedures

· Contact the patient 48-72 hours post discharge and then as needed until stable.

· Coordinates concerns among multiple departments including but not limited to OR, cath lab, anesthesia, CT, echo, vascular, hospital units.

· Initiates and coordinates outreach programs.

· Initiates and coordinates education for hospital staff.

· Tracks required registry data to be sure requirements are being met.

Additional Responsibilities:

- Conducts thorough medical histories, performs complete physical examinations (where indicated), initiates appropriate lab, radiology tests or other special tests required for evaluation of illness, and scrutinizes lab data on new and former clinic patients and hospital admissions to establish a record of the patient's current health status and to develop a working diagnosis and treatment plan.
- Must be able to work with collaborating physician.
- Performs and interprets, at least to the point of recognizing deviations from normal, common laboratory, radiologic, cardiographic and other routine diagnostic procedures used to identify pathophysiologic processes as privileged by CCF Credentialing Board.
- Performs routine procedures such as injections, immunizations, suturing and wound care, managing simple conditions produced by infection or trauma, assisting in the management of more complex illness and injury which may include assisting surgeons in conducting operations and taking initiative in performing evaluation and therapeutic procedures in response to life- threatening situations, as privileged by CCF Credentialing Board.
- May prescribe and monitor medications as allowed by prescriptive authority through applicable state Board of Nursing/Medicine and CCF policy.
- Performs specialized procedures, including bone marrow aspirations, biopsies and harvest, blood draws, designated IV starts, spinal taps, thoracentesis and paracentesis as well as other specific procedures as directed by the physician, following approval by CCF Credentialing Board.
- Provides information and answers routine questions of patients regarding their disease, including preventive health maintenance topics such as diet, weight, smoking and topics related to medical specialty, with basic recommendations.
- Educates patients regarding their disease, treatments, related drug and treatment side effects and hazards.
- Participates in medical team rounds; collaborates with nursing, medical and other healthcare team members regularly to ensure quality patient care
- Refers patients to specialists as appropriate for consultation or for specialized health resources and treatment.
- Ensures continuity of care by serving as a liaison between patient and other members of the multi-disciplinary care team or with other specialty areas as necessary.
- Performs research follow-up studies.
- Assists in data analysis.
- Participates in quality monitoring thru the review of records and treatment plans for patient outcomes on a periodic basis to assure quality care.
- Facilitates appropriate length of stay, discharge planning and compliance with regulatory standards for inpatient management.
- May serve as clinical preceptor for PA/APRN students and other health professionals.
- May serve as Faculty for onboarding new employees.
- Other duties as assigned.

Education:

APRN

Effective 05/01/2014: MSN required upon hire or within 3 years of hire for external hires and internal hires moving from a non-APRN licensed role to an APRN licensed role.

Graduate of an accredited APRN program.

If in neonatal care service area Master’s Degree is required upon hire.

Graduate of an A.R.C. approved Physician Assistant Program.

Master’s degree in Physician Assistant Studies and/or higher degree obtai