Advanced Practice Provider, Nurse Practitioner, Phyician Assistant – Cardiac Surgery, Outpatient

Job Description

Join UChicago Medicine, as an Advanced Practice Provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) within the Cardiac Surgery department. We offer advanced surgical solutions to treat atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valve disease and many other heart conditions. From reconstructing failing hearts to performing robotic and minimally invasive cardiac surgery, our surgeons are helping patients with heart disease return to active, full lives.

At the core of our heart surgery program is a team of internationally known cardiac surgeons who are leaders in the field and are often among the first to perform groundbreaking procedures. As an Advanced Practice Provider, you will be responsible for comprehensive direct patient care management. In this role, the APP will manage a caseload of patients and exercise autonomous decision making in the assessment, diagnosis and initiation of delegated medical treatments.

The scope of practice includes daily management as primary team, discharge planning, patient education, staff education, cardiac surgery consultation and research. The APP will utilize advanced practice skills obtained through the completion of a formal provider program. These skills include advanced levels of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care. The APP is also responsible for planning, organizing, and directing patient care efforts in collaboration with medical and surgical physicians and other team members.

• Provide daily management of patients undergoing Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic procedures, including heart and lung transplantation and ventricular assist devices.
• Gather pertinent information systematically and skillfully from all sources: history, diagnostic tests, comprehensive physical examination, and psycho-social assessments.
• Differentiates normal and abnormal variations for all body systems.
• Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic procedures, including heart and lung transplantation and ventricular assist devices.
• Assess patient and family adaptation, coping skills and the need for crisis or other intervention.
• Accurately interpret diagnostic tests.
• Analyze multiple sources of data in making clinical judgments and in determining the effectiveness of a plan of care.
• Develop problem lists with associated differential diagnosis.
• Identify educational needs of the patient and family and assist with teaching.
• Incorporate assessment findings into a plan to direct patient care.
• Formulate a plan of care in collaboration with the patient, family, physician, nursing staff and other member of the health care team which incorporates health care maintenance, discharge and follow-up care.
• Plan and implement appropriate pharmacological therapies.
• Accurately and appropriately perform routine diagnostic and therapeutic techniques according to established protocols and standardized procedures for nurse practitioners.
• Initiate referrals based on patient and family need.
• Seek appropriate consultation dependent upon patient health care needs.
• Accurately present and document the database, impression and plan of care.
• Promote, have knowledge of and utilize appropriate patient care protocol relating to the physical, psychosocial and developmental needs of adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Participate in research projects in the practice area.
• Perform other related duties and initiatives as deemed necessary in the best interests of patient care.

• Master’s of Science in Nursing
• Current and/or eligibility for State of Illinois RN and APN licensure/registration
• Certified as a Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurse’s Credentialing Center or American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
• Ability to qualify for Illinois and DEA prescribing numbers

• Completion of an accredited (Physician Assistant) educational program
• Certification by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
• Current and/or eligibility for State of Illinois licensure/registration
• Certification in ACLS
• Experience using automated IS including but not limited…