Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant | VAD/Heart Transplant | Full Time | Days | Detroit
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- Henry Ford Hospital - Detroit Main Campus
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- 2520390 Requisition #
GENERAL SUMMARY:
The Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant serves as a first-line provider within a collaborative, multidisciplinary team, delivering inpatient and outpatient care to advanced heart failure and LVAD patients. Responsibilities include management of the Advanced Heart Failure (AHF) clinic, inpatient rounding with the AHF team, consultation for LVAD readmissions, medication management, device interrogations, and urgent clinic visits for VAD patients. The APP provides comprehensive patient and staff education, establishes and coordinates outpatient follow-up plans, and performs clinical assessments, diagnoses, and treatments consistent with credentialing, training, and experience. The role requires close collaboration with attending physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, consultants, and other members of the care team to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality patient outcomes.
Education/Experience Required
Master’s degree in Nursing (for Nurse Practitioner) or completion of an accredited Physician Assistant program.
Previous Advanced Practice Provider experience preferred.
Required experience in the care of cardiac patients.
Cardiology experience preferred.
Experience with ventricular assist devices (VADs) preferred but not required.
Certifications/Licensures Required
Current certification as a Certified Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant.
Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (NP) or Physician Assistant, as applicable.
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), and/or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) as required by the department.
Additional Details
This posting represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described above.
Overview
Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services – from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford’s care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation’s most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus. Learn more at henryford.com/careers.
Benefits
The health and overall well-being of our team members is our priority. That’s why we offer support in the various components of our team’s well-being: physical, emotional, social, financial and spiritual. Our Total Rewards program includes competitive health plan options, with three consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs), a PPO plan and an HMO plan. Our team members enjoy a number of additional benefits, ranging from dental and eye care coverage to tuition assistance, family forming benefits, discounts to dozens of businesses and more. Employees classified as contingent status are not eligible for benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health is
committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to
race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height,
weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information,
or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.