Cardiac Specialty Outpatient - Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant - Piedmont Mountainside

Overview Advanced Practice Provider – Cardiac Acute Care Outpatient – Jasper, Georgia Piedmont Heart Institute (PHI) is recruiting for a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to join the team at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital located in Jasper, Georgia. This is a full-time position working day shift Monday-Friday. This is a great opportunity to be employed by one of the nation’s leading cardiology programs.

You will work alongside some of the most respected and highly trained physicians. Piedmont Heart Institute provides the full line of cardiovascular services with dedicated electrophysiology, transplant, advanced heart failure, critical care, interventional, surgical and research services. Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Ambulatory responsibilities include, but are not limited to

Management of patients across the spectrum of cardiology including assessing patient and performs diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, not limited to but including stress testing, to assist physician in diagnosing medical and surgical problems and prescribes necessary treatment and services for quality patient care. Takes patient histories, conducts physical examinations, writes progress notes, prepares patient workups and summaries, history and physicals, and consultation notes noting pertinent positive and negative findings, obtains psychosocial history relevant to patient care, and assumes responsibility for developing therapeutic relationships with patients. 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. Monitors progress of patients, reports progress to supervising physician, and maintains record of each patient’s progress, consulting with supervising physician when patient’s progress does not meet anticipated and/or predetermined criteria. Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to, participating in the Women’s Heart screening program, managing advanced lipid patients, and the ability to work within a multidisciplinary Team.

Piedmont Benefits include

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package
• 401k package
• CME allowance
• Quality, Service and Reputation
• Qualifications

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 Business Unit : Company Name Piedmont Heart Institute Physicians