Heart Failure Nurse Jobs

About The Position

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.
• Successful candidates must undergo respiratory fit testing in compliance with occupational health and safety standards.

Nice To Haves

• FNP or AG-ACNP certification is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide inpatient and outpatient care for patients with heart failure, cardiomyopathy, adult congenital heart disease, and ventricular assist devices.
• Evaluate new outpatients and provide routine ACHD and heart failure follow-up.
• Manage CardioMEMS and optimize medical therapy and lifestyle interventions.
• Coordinate referrals, diagnostic testing, and clinic visits.
• Help improve patient access, continuity of care, and program growth.
• 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; manage patient caseloads; obtain histories; examine patients; distinguish normal from abnormal findings; recommend age-appropriate screening; perform and evaluate diagnostic procedures and laboratory tests; collaborate on differential diagnoses and care plans; evaluate patient responses and adjust plans; document assessments and plans; communicate effectively; collaborate with healthcare disciplines, patients, and families; request consultations and referrals; educate patients, families, communities, and healthcare professionals; maintain professional knowledge through literature, staff development, and continuing education; participate in committees and quality improvement; 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 under physician observation; order diagnostic tests consistent with differential diagnoses; foster interdisciplinary collaboration; and establish respectful, empathetic, collaborative relationships with patients and families.