Marcus Heart Valve Center Advanced Practice Provider - Piedmont Heart Institute

Piedmont Heart Institute's Marcus Heart Valve Center is currently recruiting for a Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant to join the Transcatheter Valve team in Atlanta, Georgia. This is a full-time position working both in the inpatient and outpatient settings. Shifts: 4 - 10 hour days per week. No weekends, holidays, or nights.

Key Responsibilities:

Ambulatory care responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

a.      Assesses patient and performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to assist physician in diagnosing medical and surgical problems and prescribes necessary treatment and services for quality patient care.

b.      Takes patient histories, conducts physical examinations, writes progress notes, prepares patient workups and summaries noting pertinent positive and negative findings, obtains psychosocial history relevant to patient care, and assumes responsibility for developing therapeutic relationships with patients.

c.      Orders and schedules laboratory studies and diagnostic procedures. Explains necessity, preparation, nature, and anticipated effects of scheduled diagnostic and therapeutic procedure(s) to the patient, patient’s family, and staff.

d.      Monitors and reports progress of patients to supervising physician, maintains record of each patient’s progress, consulting with supervising physician when patient’s progress does not meet anticipated and/or predetermined criteria.

Hospital care responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

a.      Assist in the evaluation and treatment of structural heart patients in an inpatient setting. 

b.      Take patient histories, conduct physical examinations, and record the data in the patient’s record.

c.      Write progress notes, consults, admissions, and discharge summaries.

d.      Prepare patient workups.

e.      Orders, schedules, and follows up on diagnostic and therapeutic procedures/tests for patients in the hospital setting. 

f.       Work alongside physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, and other members of the Care Team in a collaborative fashion.

Piedmont Benefits include:

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package

• Well-designed training program offered

• CME allowance

• Quality, Service, and Reputation

Minimum Requirements:

PA:  Graduate of a Physician Assistants program with current license for the Georgia State Composite Board

-or-

NP:  Graduate from a school of nursing with current Georgia license for Advanced Practice Nursing and a Master’s degree in Nursing