PA​/NP - Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory - Grand Rapids, MI

We’re recruiting a highly motivated Advanced Practice Provider to join our growing transplant and mechanical circulatory support team. This APP is part of a team that provides detailed surgical care to the heart and lung transplant patient population, as well as the entire mechanical circulatory support patient population. The provided care spans the preoperative, postoperative, and outpatient settings for this highly specialized patient population.

No operative involvement required.

• Participate in daily rounds with the multidisciplinary team.
• Daily assessment of preoperative and postoperative transplant and VAD patients.
• Maintain communication between the multidisciplinary team and have a thorough knowledge of the VAD and transplant patients.
• Provide continuation of care of the VAD and transplant patient throughout inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Provide communication to the VAD and transplant patient family including participation in family care conferences.
• Represent the cardiothoracic service at VAD/heart transplant and lung transplant selection committee meetings.
• Provide primary coverage for the cardiothoracic surgery service during the evaluation and workup of the transplant and MCS patient population as well as care for the immediate and subsequent re‑admission of post op patients.
• Perform consults of VAD, heart transplant, lung transplant evaluations. Perform consults for other surgical concerns as it relates to VAD and transplant patients, including drive line infections.
• Management of surgical and wound concerns in the VAD and transplant patients in the Heart and Lung Transplant Clinic.
• Preparing patients for transplant in regard to the pre‑transplant plan and checklist. Also maintaining a working knowledge of patients on the heart and transplant waitlist, including participation in weekly pre‑heart transplant risks review meetings.
• Participate in weekly VAD/Transplant MDT rounds and discharge planning meetings.
• Maintain knowledge of post‑transplant patients including weekly outpatient post heart transplant rounds.
• Chronic driveline infection management including monthly review meeting and frequent clinic appointments.
• Procedures: chest tube management and removal, wound care including complex drive line and wound vac management, surgical site evaluation and management, management of Impella and axillary IABP devices in pre‑transplant patients.
• Familiar with the surgical anatomy and transplant procedures. Working knowledge of physiologic consequences of heart and lung transplantation and incorporate that understanding in the preop workup of patients as well as the post op management of patients.
• Working knowledge of MCS including ECMO, Impella, Heartmate II, III, Heartware, Centrimag technologies and IABP (intra‑aortic balloon pump).
• Detailed knowledge of UNOS (United Network of Organ Sharing) and how heart and lungs are placed in the United States.
• Works with the multidisciplinary team to develop department and hospital policies regarding transplantation and VADs, including VAD and transplant quality and safety meetings.

• Required Master's Degree Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant educational program.
• LIC-Physician Assistant -  State of Michigan Upon Hire required.
• CRT-Physician Asst Certified (PA‑C) - NCCPA National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants Upon Hire required.
• CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS) - AHA American Heart Association 90 Days required OR.
• CRT-Basic Life Support (BLS) - ARC American Red Cross 90 Days required.
• CRT-Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - AHA American Heart Association 120 Days required.
• CRT-Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - AHA American Heart Association 120 Days required.

• Required Master's Degree Nurse Practitioners who obtained their education and certification after 2000 must show evidence of completion of a master’s, post‑master’s or doctorate from a Nurse Practitioner program that is accredited by the Commission on the Collegiate of Nursing Education or the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission.
• 3 years of relevant experience…