Summary

The New York Harbor VA Healthcare System is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to join our leadership team at the Manhattan Campus.

Duties

• Overall, the nurse practitioner is assigned to help coordinate clinical care for patients with disease processes that may require EP consultation or procedures, perform device interrogations from all the different companies both in person and remotely, interpret device interrogations, and reprogram devices based on recommendations from the electrophysiology service and cardiology service, and enter data into a national database
• Major duties and responsibilities of the position: Enroll each new implant into the EP device clinic, and ensure all devices are registered
• Coordinate care of EP device patients with other services, including medical teams, surgical teams, and radiology Provide ongoing care coordination and monitoring (via telehealth, telephone, and in-person visits) for EP device patients Monitor data that is yielded from permanently implanted devices in selected patients from remote monitoring and optimal management of devices
• Ensure access to all patients with cardiac rhythm devices to the EP device clinic either remotely or in person
• Prescribe medications in discussion with cardiology, especially associated with events discovered at EP device interrogation
• Daily in-person appointments with 10 to 12 patients Answer and schedule consults with the EP device clinic Daily walk-in opening for patients who may experience any symptoms of EP device malfunctioning or received shocks
• Register all new implants or new patents that arrived at the clinic to the National Surveillance Coordinate care and follow all recommendations of the National surveillance
• Monitor and document the remote transmissions of patients currently enrolled in the National Surveillance Patient education regarding wound and EP device care Once a month program and monitor patients who had implanted devices and are scheduled for MRI Answer and educate other disciplines about patient management when patients with implanted devices have procedures
• Education of nursing staff in post-implant care
• Interfacility coordination of care of the patients with an implanted device Long-term monitor (e.g., Ziopatch) report uploads into CPRS
• Work with the patient safety team, the National Surveillance, and the manufacturer when there are safety recalls
• Some of the duties include
• Informing the patients about the recall or advisory
• Reprogramming the device following the manufacturer's recommendations
• Monitor the patients accordingly
• Reprogram devices before and after surgery and other procedures
• Coordinate clinical care between the EP physicians and inpatient cardiology services related to EP disease processes
• Work with EP physicians to coordinate with the procedural team for patients requiring EP procedures Participate in EP-related research VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm