Critical Care/ICU/PICU/NICU Physician Assistant

Cardiovascular Intensive Care Advanced Practice Provider

Location: Seattle, WA

The Center for Cardiovascular Health in collaboration with the Critical Care Organization at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health is actively recruiting for Cardiovascular Intensive Care Advanced Practice Providers to serve in our new Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) at Virginia Mason Medical Center. The CVICU will be a 24/7 unit and service coverage. The primary responsibility of the CVICU APP is to provide advanced medical, pre-procedural and post-procedural clinical care to patients who are critically ill with critical cardiac conditions. This role combines clinical expertise, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and collaboration with multiple healthcare teams to ensure the highest quality of patient care.

Team Details:

Across the entire VMFH system, the Center for Cardiovascular Health at VMFH encompasses close to 200 providers, including interventional cardiologists, electrophysiologists, advanced heart failure specialists, cardiac imaging specialists, vascular surgeons, thoracic surgeons, cardiac surgeons, and cardiac anesthesiologists. At VMMC, our programs have achieved significant recognition within the region and nationally for our quality and outcomes. We are a high-volume program performing annually over 400 open heart surgeries, 400 PCIs, 500 percutaneous structural interventions, and 400 ablations. VMMC has been ranked as one of the top 50 Heart & Vascular programs in the nation by 2023 US News & World Report.

Our Critical Care Organization is also much-renowned, with the Critical Care Team contributing heavily to VMMC having been named one of America's 50 Best Hospitals by Healthgrades and Leapfrog's "Hospital of the Decade". The VMMC CCU cares for over 1500 critically ill patients per year in a closed collaborative model for ECMO, medical, structural heart, and heart failure patients and in a consultative model for cardiac surgical patients. In addition, VMMC serves as the tertiary and quaternary cardiac referral center for the VMFH system. Virginia Mason provides critical care in a state-of-the-art, 28-bed unit that opened in September 2014. There is a planned expansion in the next few years. We are looking for experienced APPS who thrive in a highly collaborative environment and have a passion for innovations in advanced cardiac care.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct thorough physical assessments and obtain detailed medical histories to evaluate patients' cardiac conditions and overall health status.
• Formulate accurate diagnoses, perform appropriate procedures, create individualized treatment plans, and prescribe appropriate medications or treatments to manage cardiac conditions.
• Provide and coordinate clinical care for CVICU patients through established protocols and guidelines under the supervision of the CVICU intensivist team and the advanced heart failure cardiologist team.
• Monitor and manage critically ill cardiac patients, including those requiring ECMO or recovering from acute cardiac events, heart failure exacerbations, cardiac surgery, and other complex cardiac interventions.
• Manage mechanical circulatory support devices, including ECMO, temporary left ventricular and right ventricular assist devices (Impella), intra-aortic balloon pumps, and durable left ventricular assist devices (LVAD).
• Perform procedures as indicated, including central venous catheters and pulmonary arterial catheters placement, arterial line placement, and more.
• Develop patient care pathways, protocols, and guidelines in conjunction with physicians and other healthcare team members.
• Communicate verbally and in writing all pertinent patient information to the supervising heart failure physician, nursing staff, and other relevant healthcare providers.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to coordinate patient care and provide input into treatment plans.
• Document all relevant data, including diagnostic tests, laboratory results, patients' condition, and response to therapies/interventions.
• Educate patients and their families about cardiac conditions, treatment options, and lifestyle modifications.
• Maintain detailed,