Advanced Practice Provider​/Nurse Practitioner​/Physician Assistant: Electrophysiology

At Virginia Heart, we are looking for an experienced Electrophysiology Advanced Practice Provider (EP APP) to work under physician supervision in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The APP will participate in clinical assessment, care planning, treatment of cardiac patients, research and quality assurance activities, and promote continuity of care.

• Affordable Medical, Dental and Vision plans
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Paid Short-Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program for Mental and Physical well-being
• Paid Vacation upon eligibility
• Paid Sick Leave
• CME allowance
• Annual Merit-Based increases
• Employee Referral Bonuses
• Employee Discount Programs
• Quarterly Employee Appreciation:
  Events to include therapy dogs, raffles, and other fun events.

Fairfax, VA

• Obtains medical history and performs physical examinations
• Performs clinical assessments and develops treatment plan
• Initiates, monitors, and adjusts medications in accordance with the EP APP/APP Practice Agreement
• Manages patients with complex cardiovascular diseases
• Orders and evaluates laboratory, diagnostic, and radiographic tests
• Completes medical records and billing at the end of each day
• Performs interrogation and appropriate reprogramming of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Devices (CIED)
• Coordinates care with rounding EP physician or office-based EP physician
• Provides education to patients and their family members
• Provides pre and post procedural education for patients scheduled for electrophysiology procedures
• Coordinates care between other physicians, nursing staff, and interdisciplinary providers
• Makes appropriate referrals to other interdisciplinary providers
• Refers to appropriate Virginia Heart Programs:
  Heart Failure Program, Research Program, Sleep Program
• Acts as liaison for the physician in communicating with patients and family members
• May need to see general cardiology patients in the office and assist with weekend hospital rounding responsibilities as per practice needs
• Hospital Specific:
  Performs daily hospital rounds; coordinates daily rounding with the EP physicians between scheduled procedures; serves as the point of contact for in‑hospital EP issues; maintains communication with in‑hospital EP physicians; maintains hospital list, billing, and sends appropriate follow‑up requests; coordinates scheduling of inpatient EP procedures, AAD initiation and titration with both EP scheduling and EP physician team; provides discharge education and outpatient follow‑up orders and practice needs
• Office Specific:
  Maintains own schedule of approximately 15 patients in a day; an EP physician is available on site for consultation and collaboration as needed; types of patient visits include pre and post‑procedure visits, antiarrhythmic drug monitoring visits, urgent patient symptom calls, interrogation of CIEDs, interpretation of remote CIED transmissions, urgent add‑ons/walk‑ins, subcutaneous monitor consults, and all other routine Electrophysiology follow‑ups. Office EP APP does not see new patients outside of subcutaneous monitor consults

• Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner Program or Physician Associate Program (Master’s level of preparation preferred)
• NP Credentialed by the ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center). PA must be certified by NCCPA (National Commission on Certification of Physician Associates)
• BLS/CPR and ACLS certified
• Licensed in the State of Virginia

• Experience in Electrophysiology preferred. Experience in Cardiology recommended – preferably as an APP
• International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE) Certified Cardiac Device Specialist (CCDS) – recommended
• IBHRE Certified Electrophysiology Specialist (CEPS) – recommended
• Attend CME in accordance with EP APP/APP manual