Advanced Practice Provider; NP​/PA Outpatient Lung Transplant

Overview

Job Identification: 676179

Posting Date: 12/17/2025, 08:40 PM

Job Schedule: Full time

Locations: Fairfax Medical Campus

Job Description:

The Inova Outpatient Lung Transplant Team is looking for a Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant to join their team.

Outpatient APP role: Monday - Friday (no weekends or holidays)

• Practices in accordance with safe and effective standards of care and ensures compliance with professional and ethical standards of practice
• Communicates appropriately with physicians, peers, nursing staff, and other healthcare providers
• Develops differential diagnosis and plans of care based on data collection and revises based on physiologic and psychosocial findings
• Interprets and synthesizes laboratory, imaging, and other pertinent data and reviews patient plan of care with interdisciplinary team and with the patient and family
• Evaluates and documents patients  response to care, and evaluates impact of illness on patients  health status, functional status, nutritional status, sleep and rest patterns, family and social relationships, and establishes a health promotion strategy
• Assumes clinical management for the specialty patient population in collaboration with physicians in practice
• Provides accurate record keeping as evidenced by complete and pertinent history and physicals, pre-operative and progress notes, discharge summaries, and data information sheets
• Serves as a role model and preceptor for new Advanced Practice Providers and students
• Participates in and supports the departmental and system-wide quality performance improvement initiatives
• Supports departmental cost savings strategies and provides care in an efficient and cost-conscious manner
• Assists in the development and revision of standards for patient populations and integrates evidence-based research findings into clinical practice
• Participates in clinical research and data collection and assists in projects and planning for continual development of respective specialty
• Provides clinical and professional educational programs to improve staff knowledge
• Proactively assists peers with work tasks
• May perform additional duties as assigned

Shift: 5 eight-hour shifts/no weekend and holiday requirement

Specialty Areas: Outpatient Facilities

• Certification - Basic Life Support upon start;
  Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (for Critical Care) upon start
• Licensure - Licensed Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner;
  If Nurse Practitioner: RN Compact License(depending on State of primary residence) AND a license (or eligibility for) as a nurse practitioner or physician assistant in the Commonwealth of Virginia AND a "Practice Agreement" signed by sponsoring/ supervising physician(s), AND a written "Scope of Practice/Protocol" signed by the supervising physician, AND "Drug Enforcement Administration License" (if prescribing controlled substances)
• Board Certification - Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner. Maintains necessary CME requirements.
• Education - Bachelor s in Nursing and Master s in Advanced Clinical Practice or graduate of a post masters certificate program for nurse practitioners, OR a certificate from an education program that is accredited by the Council of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs/Schools, American College of Nurse Midwives, American Association of Colleges of Nursing of the National League for Nursing. For Physician Assistants, a graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program and certification by National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants

Prior APP transplant experience preferred, any organ.

We are Inova, Northern Virginia's leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Every day, our 26,000+ team members provide world-class healthcare to the communities we serve. Our people are the reason we re a national leader in healthcare safety, quality, and patient experience. And from best-in-class facilities to professional development opportunities, we support them at every step. At Inova, we re constantly striving to be ever better - to shape a more compassionate future for healthcare.

Inova Health System is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, pregnancy (including childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions and lactation), race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by law.

: 12/17/2025, 08:40 PM