Advanced Practice Provider - Cardiology, Heart Failure - High Point

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Company: Carolinas HealthCare System

Location: High Point, NC 27260

Description:

Job Description

Explore an exciting opportunity with AHWFB's Cardiology Heart Failure Team as we eagerly welcome a skilled Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our dynamic team in High Point, North Carolina. This role will take care of heart failure patients in a mix of inpatient and outpatient settings.

What We Have to Offer:
  • CME Reimbursement: Receive up to $2,500 and 5 additional PTO days/year for Continuing Medical Education.
  • Generous PTO: Accrual starts at 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters.
  • Relocation Assistance: Enjoy $7,500 in relocation assistance, paid within the first 30 days of employment.
  • Career Growth & Stability: Experience a rewarding career with ample opportunities for advancement and stability, supported by a consistently high patient volume.
  • A Rich Quality of Life: Indulge in a vibrant lifestyle within North Carolina's Piedmont Triad region, boasting an abundance of walking and biking trails, nationally acclaimed golf courses, active arts communities, tantalizing Southern cuisine, and an array of artisan craft breweries and wineries.

What You'll Do:

As a Heart Failure Advanced Practice Provider (APP), you will collaborate closely with our skilled attending cardiologists, alongside fellow cardiology APPs, and a compassionate team of dedicated cardiology nurses and staff. Focused primarily on Advanced Heart Failure cases, this role offers an exciting avenue for participation in educational and scholarly activities, enriching our thriving academic clinical environment. With our unwavering support, we foster significant autonomy, nurturing your growth towards managing acute and chronic conditions with increasing expertise and confidence. Responsibilities include:
  • Using medical decision-making skills to determine appropriate patient care plan.
  • Collaborates with medical team when needed for effective team-based care.
  • Order and interpret laboratory studies and diagnostic procedures. Explains the necessity, preparation, nature and anticipated effects of scheduled diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to the patient.
  • Procedural skills per department or practice guidelines.
  • Opportunity to participate in basic science and clinical research projects.
  • Potential for and encouraged to precept students and/or medical learners.
  • Uphold AHWFB missions, values, and cultural commitment.
  • Performs other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

  • The clinician functions under the regulatory mandate from their respective licensing organization (North Carolina Medical Board or North Carolina Board of Nursing) with departmental specific credentialing from the institution.

    The schedule is rotating days, 12 hour shifts, 7am-7pm, with some nights and weekends required.

    Physician Assistant (PA) Requirements:
    • Graduation from an accredited Physician Assistant Program; Master's Degree preferred
    • Current North Carolina Medical Board Medical License, Certified by NCCPA
    • Minimum of two years of experience in a cardiovascular or heart failure care environment
    • BLS and ACLS certification required

    Nurse Practitioner (NP) Requirements:
    • Graduation from accredited Nurse Practitioner Master's Program, Master's degree or higher required
    • Current North Carolina Board of Nursing Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner license
    • Board certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner by AANP or ANCC
    • Minimum of two years of experience in a cardiovascular or heart failure care environment
    • BLS and ACLS certification required

    When you join Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, you are welcomed into an inclusive culture that celebrates and respects the contributions a diverse team can make together. In our nationally-renowned integrated health system, you can work alongside the most advanced minds in medicine to improve medicine, elevate hope and advance healing - for all.

    About Us

    Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

    Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

    This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.

    About the Team

    Mission, Vision and Culture Commitments

    Mission

    To improve health, elevate hope and advance healing - for all.

    Vision

    To be the first and best choice for care.

    Culture Commitments

    We create a space where all Belong

    We Work as One to make great things happen

    We earn Trust in all we do

    We Innovate to better the now and create the future

    We drive for Excellence - always

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