Nurse Practitioner - Cardiology

When you join us, youll become a part of a nationally recognized health system dedicated to our mission of helping people live the healthiest lives possible.

About this Role

As a Pediatric Advanced Practice Provider, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team dedicated to caring for children with complex heart disease and cardiac conditions in a high-volume, dynamic heart center.

This is a full-time position, approximately 40 hours per week. Schedule will include six daytime shifts per bi-weekly pay period, with built in hours available for required training, research, meetings, and documentation. Our service is staffed 365 days a year which requires rotating schedules to cover weekends, and holidays.

There is a rotating at home night call requirement with additional compensation for call time.

Your responsibilities in this role will include:

• Managing inpatient pediatric patients with congenital heart disease including assessment, diagnosis, medication management, treatment, and timely documentation.
• Daily rounding and placing orders on inpatients with cardiologists, fellows, and APP team.
• Timely response to acute patient changes, support staff needs, and exam results.
• Educate patient, patient's family, clinical staff, and others regarding all aspects of care.
• Consult and coordinate with other healthcare providers.
• Continually participate in weekly learning opportunities and committees in order to gain optimal career development and achieve best patient care and outcomes.
• You may also participate in research, utilize evidence-based practice to improve quality patient care, protocol development, care process model development, and best practice standards for assigned patient population throughout our organization.

About our Heart Center located at Primary Childrens Hospital in Salt Lake City, UT:

• Located in the beautiful foothills overlooking Salt Lake Valley, Primary Childrens is the premier childrens hospital of Intermountain Health, and the pediatric specialty teaching hospital for the University of Utah School of Medicine.
• With more than 10+ specialty service lines at Primary Childrens, the center serves as the only provider of comprehensive care to children and adults with congenital heart disease within the Intermountain footprint.
• We are a nationally recognized Heart Center program by U.S. News and World Report.
• Within Primary Childrens Heart Center, there are more than 60+ highly skilled physicians and 30+ APPs who work to treat the most complex congenital heart conditions, and are supported by more than 400 caregivers, including medical assistants, cardiac sonographers, nurses, perfusionists, respiratory therapists, social workers, genetic counselors, child life specialists, and more.
  

How we'll support you:

We care about your well-being which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package. In addition, we offer paid time off, license reimbursement, malpractice insurance coverage, and an annual CME allowance to support your continuous growth and development.

What youll bring:

• Utah license as a Physician Assistant (PA) or an Advance Practice Registered Nurse (APRN).
• Board Certification as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
• Utah State Controlled Substance License
• Federal DEA Certificate II through V
• PALS and BLS Certification for Healthcare Providers
• Previous experience with cardiac or inpatient pediatric patients is highly preferred.
  

About us:

Intermountain Healthis a model health system by providing extraordinary care and superior service at an affordable cost. We are an integrated not-for-profit system of 33 hospitals, 385 clinics, and a medical group with more than 5,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers across seven states in the mountain west.

Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us. Learn more about our Mission, Vision, and Values at: About Intermountain.

What does it mean to be a part of Intermountain Health?

It means joining the Power of We, building an environment where providers and caregivers can deliver the best in healthcare. Realizing each caregiver and volunteer is vital to providing care to our patients, because WE can only achieve the extraordinary together. Committed to the best in research and most advanced technology, the results are better clinical patient outcomes.