Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Heart Failure
About The Position
The Advanced Practice Provider provides inpatient and outpatient care for patients with heart failure, cardiomyopathy, adult congenital heart disease (ACHD), and ventricular assist devices (VADs). The role supports patient access, continuity of care, and program growth. Outpatient work includes new patient evaluations, routine ACHD and heart failure follow-up, CardioMEMS management, optimization of medical therapy and lifestyle interventions, and coordination of referrals, diagnostic testing, and clinic visits. Inpatient work includes daily rounding on patients with active heart failure and/or VADs, multidisciplinary care coordination, and support for LVAD education and appropriate billing practices. Successful candidates must undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.
Requirements
- Nurse Practitioner: Master’s degree in nursing.
- Nurse Practitioner: RN license from the Texas Board of Nursing or Nursing Licensure Compact.
- Nurse Practitioner: Certification as FNP, NNP, PNP-BC, WHNP-BC, CPNP-AC, or AG-ACNP from the Texas Board of Nursing.
- Physician Assistant: Bachelor’s degree.
- Physician Assistant: PA-Cert-Physician Assistant certification by the Texas Medical Board.
Nice To Haves
- FNP or AG-ACNP certification is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide inpatient and outpatient care to patients with heart failure, cardiomyopathy, adult congenital heart disease, and ventricular assist devices.
- Conduct new patient evaluations and routine ACHD and heart failure follow-up.
- Manage CardioMEMS and optimize medical therapy and lifestyle interventions.
- Coordinate referrals, diagnostic testing, and clinic visits.
- Round daily on inpatients with active heart failure and/or VADs.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary inpatient care and support LVAD education and appropriate billing practices.
- For Nurse Practitioners: collect and evaluate health assessment data; obtain histories; examine patients; distinguish normal from abnormal findings; perform or recommend screening; provide health maintenance and promotion; perform and evaluate diagnostic procedures and laboratory tests; formulate differential diagnoses and plans of care in collaboration with physicians and other professionals; evaluate patient responses and adjust care; document assessments and plans; communicate effectively; collaborate with patients, families, and healthcare teams; request consultations and referrals; provide education; maintain professional knowledge and skills; participate in committees and quality improvement activities; and demonstrate advanced nursing practice role behaviors.
- For Physician Assistants: provide medical services within their education, training, scope of practice, and supervising physician delegation; obtain and document patient histories; distinguish and document normal and abnormal findings; prescribe or administer delegated medications; administer appropriate vaccines; order diagnostic tests consistent with differential diagnoses; collaborate with the interdisciplinary team; and build respectful, empathetic, collaborative relationships with patients and families.
- Undergo respiratory fit testing as a condition for successful candidates.
